Oxford Partisanship Study Fake News

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This is Why The Oxford Study on "Junk News" is Fake news / Oxford Responds.

Tim Pool continues to do the job of a real journalist - pointing out bias/fake news where he finds it and setting the record straight.

 

Tribalism rating: CENTER-LEFT

 

To see MSM articles that have been altered without admission of correction, see here: http://newsdiffs.org/

 

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anyone see the flaw in his logic around 1:40? doesn't seem to understand how statistics work. numbers don't matter, the study is about proportionality. 50 out of 100 fake news stories shared compared to 500 out of 600 is less.

also he doesn't seem to understand how al-jazeera is divided. their plus website contains both english and arabic sources, as well as others. it's also a video website and so can't be tweeted.

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I'm not sure I understand your issue but you could ask him - I've got replies from all these guys on questions: Razorfist, Sargon, Styx, Pool, etc. They do respond especially if you know how to provoke them a little in the crafting of your question.

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Update: Correction at 0:45.

 

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