{"id":68881,"date":"2016-11-10T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T15:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68881"},"modified":"2016-11-10T10:30:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T15:30:43","slug":"how-macedonians-won-the-election-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68881","title":{"rendered":"How Macedonians won the election for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eager to explain to themselves how, Donald Trump won the election the other night, New York Magazine<\/a> breathlessly explains that Macedonian teenagers writing false stories on Facebook put him over the top. A Pew Research<\/a> survey says that 44% of adult Americans get their news from Facebook, so they extrapolate that to a Trump win, since someone in Veles, Macedonia<\/a> launched 140 fake news sites to publish on Facebook.<\/p>\n

All throughout the election, these fake stories, sometimes papered over with flimsy \u201cparody site\u201d disclosures somewhere in small type, circulated throughout Facebook: The Pope endorses Trump. Hillary Clinton bought $137 million in illegal arms. The Clintons bought a $200 million house in the Maldives. Many got hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of shares, likes, and comments; enough people clicked through to the posts to generate significant profits for their creators. The valiant efforts of Snopes and other debunking organizations were insufficient; Facebook\u2019s labyrinthine sharing and privacy settings mean that fact-checks get lost in the shuffle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The LA Times<\/a> wrings it’s hands over the fact that only 2 in 10 Americans get their news from the traditional media;<\/p>\n

The consequences of Facebook\u2019s growing sway became clear during an election cycle that saw the rise of partisan news, conspiracies, fake articles and a winning candidate who fully embraced social media as a way to circumvent the media establishment and its proclivity for checking facts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bloomberg<\/a> is concerned because the media wasn’t able to spin news through their filters before it got to consumers;<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a landmark,\u201d [Ed Wasserman, the dean of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism] said. \u201cTrump was able to get his message out in a way that was vastly influential without undergoing the usual kinds of quality checks that we associate with reaching mass public. You had a whole set of media having influence without really having authority. And the media that spoke with authority, the authority that comes after careful fact checking, didn\u2019t really have the influence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess we can’t trust that editorial filter in our heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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