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SneeringAnswer t1_jayowgs wrote

Reply to comment by messengerkindaguy in On Facebook, Visual Misinfo Widespread. In the runup to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election visual misinformation was widespread across the platform, and that it was highly asymmetric across party lines, with right-leaning images five to eight times more likely to be misleading. by Wagamaga

"For every viral meme talking about how college debt is a capitalist scam, there were 5 to 8 viral memes about how covid vaccines will turn you gay then shoot your dog"

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doctorclark t1_jaymm7u wrote

Reply to comment by Duende555 in On Facebook, Visual Misinfo Widespread. In the runup to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election visual misinformation was widespread across the platform, and that it was highly asymmetric across party lines, with right-leaning images five to eight times more likely to be misleading. by Wagamaga

The OP specifically calls out the differences in information quality across party lines. If the decline in print media alone explained misinformation's rise because of the attention economy, as you state, then what explains the party-line bias for amount of misinformation?

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lancelongstiff t1_jaylmdc wrote

Reply to comment by StraightOven4697 in Cosmic rays reveal measurements of a concealed corridor in the Great Pyramid of Giza by marketrent

It's basically like an X-ray machine - the cosmic rays come from space (they're produced by stars, supernovae etc) on one side of the pyramid and you have a detector on the other side.

The rays (to be precise, muons instead of X-rays) almost always pass through everything. But occasionally they interact with matter and that's enough to work out where the matter is, how much of it there is etc.

Here are some pictures from the people who brought us the Large Hadron Collider.

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seaworthy-sieve t1_jaykp7w wrote

Reply to comment by Clock586 in Too much or too little sleep could be making you sick more. Those who reported sleeping less than six hours a night were 27% more likely to report a recent infection, and those who reported more than nine hours sleep were 44% more likely to report one. by MistWeaver80

Or maybe people who get very little sleep are just also more likely to encounter infections — they might have small children in daycare, or do shift work in healthcare settings, etc etc

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Brokenspokes68 t1_jay9qb3 wrote

Reply to comment by Betsey23 in On Facebook, Visual Misinfo Widespread. In the runup to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election visual misinformation was widespread across the platform, and that it was highly asymmetric across party lines, with right-leaning images five to eight times more likely to be misleading. by Wagamaga

Facts have a liberal bias. It didn't always work out that way. But the right has embraced many false narratives. It started with denying climate change. The big lie about the 2020 election is just the most recent, and most damaging to our democracy, false narrative that the right has embraced.

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