a Facebook group called Mediakollen, which promised to debunk false information on the web, challenging inaccurate articles and statements using the visual cues and language of fact checking
Except Mediekollen is itself a tool of disinformation. It is, in effect, a fake fact checker. They create a different narrative using other pieces of evidence or opinion to support or knock down a statement or story. It is argument, often deliberately misleading, dressed up as verification.
O Nicholas Epley, a professor at University of Chicago “There’s a reliable bias for people to hold things that they think are true, or would like to be true, to a lower evidentiary standard than things they don’t want to be true or don’t believe are true.”
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I think that this is a prime example of how big the fat news issue has become. Even people who say that they are taking care of the issue or are trying to make sure they don't believe everything are still being pulled into the circle whether they mean it or not. Rather than relying on smaller/independent people. Larger institutions need to start taking responsibility and taking the regulation seriously.
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