{"id":6529,"date":"2017-01-01T08:19:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T08:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2017-01-01T08:19:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T08:19:38","slug":"linked-we-tracked-down-a-fake-news-creator-in-the-suburbs-heres-what-we-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/01\/01\/linked-we-tracked-down-a-fake-news-creator-in-the-suburbs-heres-what-we-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: “We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here’s What We Learned”"},"content":{"rendered":"

via NPR<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Some of these people that we … bait is probably the right word \u2014 are often \u2014 let’s call them the deplorables, right? They’re not the safest crowd. Some of them I would consider domestic terrorists. So they’re just not people that I want to be knocking on my door.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

What can be done about fake news?<\/em><\/p>\n

Some of this has to fall on the readers themselves. The consumers of content have to be better at identifying this stuff. We have a whole nation of media-illiterate people. Really, there needs to be something done.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What you see here is an entrepreneur making millions of dollars a year off the ignorance of people who shouldn\u2019t have an Internet connection. People who see something sensationalist that merely proves their conspiracies and hate and they eat it up. I don\u2019t fault these fake news creators and I don\u2019t think Google or Facebook should do anything to filter them out. There should be a list of people who share this BS and comment on it and we put them all in a silo filled with people like them and they can pat each other on the back all day. I think Yahoo! Answers is already like this. We should just sent them all there where the most common password is password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via NPR: Some of these people that we … bait is probably the right word \u2014 are often…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-01-01T08:19:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"db13c3cd-38ca-4d26-aed0-f6bdad2cc8e5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-01-01T08:19:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2xPDzTjKTSau0Pa9rSzI5Q","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Hj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6850,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/04\/26\/linked-not-ok-google\/","url_meta":{"origin":6529,"position":0},"title":"Linked: “Not Ok, Google”","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Stratechery: Fake news, on the other hand, tells people who\u2019ve already made up their minds what they want to hear. 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