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Right-wing bubble

mardi 9 janvier 2018 à 01:00

Studies show that most Americans are not in a partisan news bubble, and nearly all are aware of basic political facts that the right-wing tries to deny.

However, for those that are in the right-wing bubble, fact-checking does no good because they don't look at fact-checking articles about the fake news they read. On the contrary, fact-checking articles can backfire by transferring the right-wing terminology, with the biases it carries, into other media, which magnifies their effect.

I don't let that happen in stallman.org; I reject the right-wing propaganda terminology.

It is unfortunate that the article's author uses the term "consume" to refer to reading articles, because the word denigrates all articles including that one.