Posted on 11/29/2022 6:29:19 AM PST by devane617
It’s no coincidence that Merriam-Webster chose “gaslighting” as word of the year
A study recently published in Nature Communications used the Politifacts fact-checking database to calculate a "falsity score"
GIGO
They then assigned Twitter users an "elite misinformation exposure" score, based on the falsity scores of the political elites they follow on Twitter.
How on earth did this make it through peer review?
Following someone on Twitter doesn't mean that you read any of their Tweets. In fact, my feed is full of people that I don't follow. Even after I mute them.
If you cloak the gaslighting in “The Science”, as here, it’s supposed to pass the smell test with ease.
Maybe “The Science” should be the next “word of the year” (even though it’s actually two).
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
Yeah.
Right.
Might as well use the piles in the cow pasture as a reference.
Using Politifacts as the basis for scoring anything as “misinformation” destroys any political independence of the resulting “research”. The study - and the resulting “tool” it created - became politically biased by its sole source of “truth”.
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