{"id":72119,"date":"2019-09-09T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72119"},"modified":"2019-09-08T17:30:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T22:30:29","slug":"since-fake-news-is-all-the-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72119","title":{"rendered":"Since &#8220;Fake News&#8221; Is All The Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday I was listening to &#8220;All Things Considered&#8221; on the way to something more interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/09\/08\/758858687\/troll-watch-deepfakes-and-2020\">The subject<\/a> was &#8220;what are we doing to combat the kind of fake news that, we are told, affected the 2016 election&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guest &#8211; one Paul Barrett, an adjunct professor at NYU who lectures about election security for some reason or another &#8211; said that one thing that could help might be for social media companies (and, one might suppose, media companies in general) to &#8220;act more aggressively against provably false information&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t agree more, although I suspect that&#8217;s not the kind of cynical deception they&#8217;re thinking about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with sanctioning people who passed on Dakota County Attorney Jim Backstrom&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26196\">provably false claims about gun rights issues, especially proposals to reform self-defense laws<\/a> &#8211; a trail of lies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70177\">that continues today<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Barrett also says individuals need to be more skeptical about what they read and see online.  This is something no conservative in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2019\/09\/omar-burns-the-star-tribune.php\">the Strib&#8217;s coverage area needs to be reminded about<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was listening to &#8220;All Things Considered&#8221; on the way to something more interesting. The subject was &#8220;what are we doing to combat the kind of fake news that, we are told, affected the 2016 election&#8221;. The guest &#8211; one Paul Barrett, an adjunct professor at NYU who lectures about election security for some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72120,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72119\/revisions\/72120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}