fake news
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Read More: #86, resist how we are framedThis #100hardtruths was given to me by my friend and fellow-curator, the writer and speaker Hugh Ryan: “I feel like all the time I see people getting sucked into discussions/disagreements…
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Read More: #85, make productive fake documentariesIn an article, “The Increasingly Unproductive Fake,” I wrote about The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996), I film that I produced and also acted in: “We took up fake documentary…
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Read More: #83, focus attention on the real-world applications of #fakenewsAfter seeing pictures on TV—real, fake and hard-to-tell-and-does-it-really-matter (how can I know if the picture I include below is “real”? There are currently very few images of the damage from…
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Read More: #82, explain your irrational destruction before the eyes of humanity[vimeo 212095370 w=640 h=360] Educate us to the rationalization of your vicious impotence Explain your irrational destruction before the eyes of humanity (excerpted from “Innocence Nevermore,” Abraham Jesús “Tato” Livaiera)…
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Read More: #81, call the man of the year a liar[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHQ7N9lEl_E&w=560&h=315] “Here’s a little song, about a man gone wrong, while building up his evil empire. And after months of ifs and buts, the papers got the guts, to…
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Read More: #80, outlast virality#fakenews is on the decline. Not the amount of it, or the uses of it, or the power of it, just the internet’s attention to it. #fakenews has outlived its…
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Read More: #79, attend to the structural problems inherent in the platform ecosystemIn “All I Know Is What’s on the Internet: Information literacy is not the antidote to fake news, because the institutions for teaching it can’t be trusted either,” Rolin Moe…
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Read More: #78, foreign policy should be rooted in evidence and results, not ideology and the politics of punishmentIn a press release on April 3, 2017, the International Women’s Health Coalition denounced the US government’s cuts to the UN Population Fund. “The Trump Administration’s decision to cut US…
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Read More: #77, expose the costs and histories of freedomThe #100hardtruths was shared with me by my friend, the teacher, scholar, advisor and activist, Gabrielle Foreman. “The press looms large in the stories U.S. Americans tell ourselves. Freedom of…
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Read More: #76, learn what happens when you type a letter on your keyboardThis #100hardtruths was shared with me by my student, Eileen Clancy. The repository “What-happens-when” was started by Alex Gaynor on Git.Hub who explains that it: “is an attempt to answer…