How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.

NY Mag ^ | 12/26/2018 | Max Read

[Right Brigade]

“So what if someone is a bot? Really, what’s the problem?”

I’m not a Bot but I play one on the internet.

[palmer]

CIS says "Non-Citizens Committed a Disproportionate Share of Federal Crimes, 2011-16" see https://cis.org/Camarota/NonCitizens-Committed-Disproportionate-Share-Federal-Crimes-201116 Doesn't separate out illegals, but illegals are probably more likely to commit crimes IMO. Reputable organizations like CIS have been around for years writing these reports. They appear on some networks like Fox that are somewhat balanced.

But a GIF that gets shared on Facebook and copied here might be accurate or might be total crap. People need to do due diligence or at least sanity-check the numbers. Otherwise we all suffer from the false information. That one is crap.

[TChad]

Many articles posted on websites are written by “content writers” (such as work for Textbroker).

Interesting. I'll have to learn more about Textbroker.

[minnesota_bound]

None of the posts for this article are real.

Signed

Bot

[foreverfree]

bump

[RightGeek]

I used to mentally filter the ads, now I let Ublock Origin do it for me. I can’t believe people are clicking ads either.

[RipSawyer]

My brother once commented to me that there is a lot of fake news on the internet. I responded that, yes, that is true but the TRUTH is also on the internet if you can sort it out. If you are watching so-called mainstream news it is almost ALL fake, only things which don’t matter one way or the other are reported factually and often not even then. Even obvious opinions, not even masquerading as facts, are almost totally the opinions of left wing “liberals”. Go on CNN and say what my parents would have considered unquestionable truth, as obvious as the sunrise, and they will brand you as a right wing nutcase.

[dead]

you can buy 5,000 YouTube views — 30 seconds of a video counts as a view — for as low as $15

My YouTube channel has over 7,000,000 views, and I didn't buy a single one! Most of the hits are for my edit of Donald Trump wrestling, but another 400K are for music performances I videoed.

[rexthecat]

I have two fake Facebook accounts. They can really come in handy when you want to look at someone’s FB page but you want to remain anonymous.

[353FMG]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH-xq5xCCNM

[palmer]

At least that was a short video and well produced. It’s a little strange they wait until GHWB and McCain were just about dead, with family at their side, to administer the lethal injection. At that point it could probably be considered a mercy killing.