COMN 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Big Data, Alternative Facts, Alternative Media
12 Apr 2017
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They cover politics almost exclusively, not from a neutral or objective. 6. perspective, but with a strong bias (why they exist). They also specialize in alternative facts which used to be called falsehoods, often conspiracy theories. The object of these sites is not to find the truth of the matter, but to win an argument and to discredit the opponent. Twitter has become an open access worldwide broadcast news network. 9: facebook behaves like a publisher of news like twitter does, fb and twitter won"t accept responsibility for false information that is circulated, major news sources are being attacked specifically by the top leadership of the. In this environment, facts do not matter, what the winner says is true and becomes fact. Disruptions are so serious that some say democracy is being threatened: democracy depends on an ongoing civil debate taken place in a freely accessible public space. That space nowadays is provided by the media.
