FAKE NEWS?
http://berkeleysciencereview.com/article/fake-news/
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Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte first became aware of the issue of fake news after attending a protest at UC Berkeley against right-wing provocateur, Milo Yiannopoulos, in September 2017. They found that their experience of the protest was not at all what they saw represented on social media the next day. “The thing that was crazy was that the students were having a dance party, and what was reported on the media was that we were destroying our own school,” says Bhat. In reality, the student protest had been largely non-violent until a group of outside protesters entered the crowd and began initiating extreme acts, such as throwing fireworks and attacking people. The idea that the majority of Americans were reading reports so divorced from reality was jarring. It motivated the pair to found Robhat, a lab that uses data science and machine learning to provide insights and solutions regarding fake news.
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Right-wing media sources like Faux "News", InfoWars, Limblow, distort virtually every event. They would even have you believe that great universities, like Berkeley, are "evil". I certainly got plenty of that indoctrination growing up in a Baptist church. Thankfully, I learned, and moved on long ago. Sadly, millions are under the influence of these far right lunatics, and will never learn.