Why fact-checkers couldn’t contain misinformation about the Notre Dame fire

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  • April 18, 2019 at 3:12 am #100040
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    from Why fact-checkers couldn’t contain misinformation about the Notre Dame fire

    link: https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2019/why-fact-checkers-couldnt-contain-misinformation-about-the-notre-dame-fire/?fbclid=IwAR3dQsvrhmjvXuhg9mc2Wqk-4qhvAJoaDvcfJz-yXlSA5jYruE8EJ3_QA7s

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    Ground zero for that battle is Twitter.

    Of the hoaxes on BuzzFeed News’ running list of misinformation about the Notre Dame fire, a format that the outlet uses after most big news stories, all but one were on Twitter instead of Facebook (although one hoax was about Facebook itself). One tweet, which purported to show a video of a Yellow Vest protester in the church (it was just a firefighter), was the basis for several other viral hoaxes in other languages.

    Another baseless tweet claiming the fire was set deliberately was used as the basis for an Infowars story. Both have since been deleted.

    But other hoaxes racked up thousands of likes and retweets, eventually surfacing on mainstream cable news shows in the U.S., BuzzFeed reported in a timeline. And Laurent said most of the conspiracies started on the American right.

    “The first stories were that Muslims were cheering at the flames and the church burning, which was actually wrong,” he said. “It was not the French people that were sharing the first fake news — it was really the Americans and right-wing people trying to shape the discourse.”

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    April 18, 2019 at 10:36 am #100043
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    not only social media, but AM talk show radio…..

    reporting misleading information needs to stop.

    This link has a series of this bullshit.

    URL = https://twitter.com/asavagenation?lang=en

    Michael Savage…
    how can the
    investigation’ of possible arson or terror be ‘over’ when the ashes are still smoldering! LIES, COVER-UP. USE COMMON SENSE. THIS WAS TERRORISM

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