When narratives put forth in fake-news messages upheld values such as “Hindu power and superiority” and “preservation and revival,” then “validation of identity trumps verification of facts,” the study claimed.
—Quartz, in ‘In India, BJP supporters are more likely than others to share fake news’
NYU Stern’s marketing professor Scott Galloway:
“How do you know an industry is right to be disrupted? It raises its prices faster than the inflation.”
The New York Times Needs Two Bold Moves – Monday Note, August 1, 2017 at 10:15AM
First, the industry appeared to engage, promising high-quality research into the issue. The public were assured that the best people were on the case.
The second stage was to complicate the question and sow doubt: lung cancer might have any number of causes, after all. And wasn’t lung cancer, not cigarettes, what really mattered?
Stage three was to undermine serious research and expertise. Autopsy reports would be dismissed as anecdotal, epidemiological work as merely statistical, and animal studies as irrelevant.
Finally came normalisation: the industry would point out that the tobacco-cancer story was stale news. Couldn’t journalists find something new and interesting to say?
The Problem With Facts, April 24, 2017, at 10:13 AM
… trusting retirees, with a bit of disposable income, and a natural inclination to hate modernity and change—an inclination that could be heightened, radicalized, and exploited.
The Long, Lucrative Right-wing Grift Is Blowing Up in the World’s Face, April 10, 2017, at 06:51 PM
The sentence may be written for the voters in the west – the ones who elected Trump, and voted for Brexit. However, from my conversations on visits back home, it’s the same voters who also support Modi & BJP in India – heightened, radicalised, and exploited.
Continue reading Target voter for all nativist/hativist political parties…
Facebook’s advertising, though, doesn’t just run against journalism and other professionally produced content: it runs against baby pictures, small businesses, cooking videos and everything in between. Facebook may be everything to the media, but the media is one of many types of content on Facebook.
Stratechery Daily Update 2017-01-12, January 23, 2017 at 12:33PM
In defining “fake news” so broadly and seeking to dilute its meaning, they are capitalizing on the declining credibility of all purveyors of information.
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Over the years, we’ve effectively brainwashed the core of our audience to distrust anything that they disagree with.
Wielding Claims of ‘Fake News,’ Conservatives Take Aim at Mainstream Media, December 28, 2016 at 04:23PM
Use my marker 