Recent comments in /f/science
LandmassWave t1_jayyk3t wrote
Reply to comment by AutomaticOrange4417 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
A lab leak is by definition either negligent or malicious. From there it's just speculation.
crother t1_jayyfeh wrote
Reply to 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
I wonder how many were memes.
LandmassWave t1_jayy9xm wrote
Reply to comment by doctorclark 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
Selection bias and evaluation bias.
Don't forget that the lab leak theory and Hunter's laptop were both "misinformation" and the golden shower dossier was real.
AutomaticOrange4417 t1_jayvoyn wrote
Reply to comment by _Ballbuster_ 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
I think it is you who is beyond help
_Ballbuster_ t1_jayvfu6 wrote
Reply to comment by AutomaticOrange4417 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
Jon Stewart couldn't have said it more plainly for even you.
"You're telling me, the covid vaccine in Wuhan, didn't come from the Covid lab ... in Wuhan .. "
Hell even the Energy Dept. and Feds are admitting to it the last couple weeks. If you still believe that you weren't lied to and the people who called this out years ago who were silenced were not correct this whole time - then there's no helping you.
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Reply to comment by SuspiciousStable9649 in Cosmic rays reveal measurements of a concealed corridor in the Great Pyramid of Giza by marketrent
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[deleted] t1_jaytyma wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] 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
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Reply to comment by Insomnia_Bob in Cosmic rays reveal measurements of a concealed corridor in the Great Pyramid of Giza by marketrent
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Insomnia_Bob t1_jaytt3r wrote
Reply to comment by pewpewbrrrrrrt in Cosmic rays reveal measurements of a concealed corridor in the Great Pyramid of Giza by marketrent
Rookie mistake. Always check the comments first.
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Reply to comment by fractiousrhubarb 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
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Larry_Linguini t1_jaytc8b wrote
Reply to comment by AutomaticOrange4417 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
It's from politifact, they state again that it doubled later in the article.. it's clearly nonsense. Their main argument is that we don't rely so heavily on Russian oil in general, why they made the title what it is I can only assume is done as a "gotcha". This shouldn't be the norm for a fact checking website but politifact and snopes has done this type of thing plenty of times.
Duende555 t1_jayt04s wrote
Reply to comment by doctorclark 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
Ah good. And yeah it’s a concerning trend.
doctorclark t1_jaysl0u 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
That explanation cleared up my misreading of your proposed causality. I agree about print media's unfortunate mimicry of clickbait tacticrs that were born online.
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Reply to 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
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Duende555 t1_jayrndl wrote
Reply to comment by doctorclark 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
Okay I'm tired today and don't really want to fight about this.
My point wasn't that the decline in print media alone explain misinformation's rise - my point was that the rise in misinformation and a diminished attention economy secondary to the internet *partially* explains the decline in print media AND has, in turn, led to print media mimicking the click bait tactics and misleading headline style that captures attention. Basically, print media is declining and increasingly trying to ape the style of Fox in an attempt to slow their own decline. And that's bad.
Also I'm tired today so that's probably all I got right now.
AutomaticOrange4417 t1_jayreh0 wrote
Reply to comment by TheWoodConsultant 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
How many images were posted blaming antifa for something? That alone is enough to prove the study is accurate.
AutomaticOrange4417 t1_jayr406 wrote
Reply to comment by Larry_Linguini 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
Those two statements are in contradiction. It looks like a typo. It says that Russian oil imports were up only 28%. I think the second bullet is meant to say that the US doubled it's oil imports in total, not just from Russia.
Also what website is that from? There's no source information, just a cropped screenshot. That's pretty bad evidence for a science subreddit
AutomaticOrange4417 t1_jayqu5t wrote
Reply to comment by eudemonist 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
Are you suggesting that there was evidence that he was senile?
AutomaticOrange4417 t1_jayqo0w wrote
Reply to comment by the_hack_is_back 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
It's important to distinguish between natural virus accidentally infecting a person vs an engineered virus, designed to kill people.
The right are still pushing the narrative that the virus was engineered in a lab specifically to kill people. Also that Fauci funded it.
No organization has concluded that that is realistic. The only conclusions being drawn are that there is a possibility, with a low confidence, that a natural virus being studied in a lab accidentally infected one of the scientists studying it.
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Reply to 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
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AutomaticOrange4417 t1_jayq6m9 wrote
Reply to comment by SneeringAnswer 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
Not a fair comparison. College debt is a capitalist scam.
fractiousrhubarb t1_jayq43u wrote
Reply to comment by Larry_Linguini 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
Source? i.e. can you send a link to the original site this image came from?
btw- it’s worth mentioning that if I really wanted to know a specific thing about oil imports I’d go to wherever the trade data info originally came from, that being as close to reality as I can get.
pewpewbrrrrrrt t1_jaypb05 wrote
Reply to comment by marketrent in Cosmic rays reveal measurements of a concealed corridor in the Great Pyramid of Giza by marketrent
Dam, I read the whole article and here you edited all the filler out.
LandmassWave t1_jayyn8s wrote
Reply to comment by AutomaticOrange4417 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
Good point. He's always been cognitively deficient.