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→Propaganda vs. fake news
It is not clear why anyone would want to access this page. The intended purpose of this page is to find out about "fake news" as a concept and its significance. It is clear that Rob, Guy and I have three different ideas of what constitutes "fake news" and also disagree on where to look for authoritative sources of information about it. I tried to fix the page in line with the Conservapedia commandments of something that is balanced and could be understood by a home-schooled high school student. However, the [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Fake_News&oldid=1329147 current version] seems to be a rehash of United States ideological and cultural wars and leave the impression that when you read something on the internet that you disagree with then you call it "fake news." The current text is incoherent name calling. At this point, I think we should find a way to decouple the fake news article from the 2016 election from liberal-conservative cross-criticism and just focus on the original problem: a bunch of people who made up outlandish attention grabbing click bait to profit from internet advertising. I know that there is both conservative and liberal mainstream media and that sometimes they are tricked into spreading fake news, but main source of spreading fake news is "sharing" on social media. I would like to see an article that if a high school student read it, he or she would never be tricked into sharing a fake news item. We can also cover how Google, facebook and Twitter try to combat fake news and the problems involved in censorship. We can also cover the legal issues. I will leave it to someone else to move this article back from the cliff of ideological one-up-man-ship. Thanks, [[User:JDano|JDano]] ([[User talk:JDano|talk]]) 10:34, 6 April 2017 (EDT)
It is not clear why anyone would want to access this page. The intended purpose of this page is to find out about "fake news" as a concept and its significance. It is clear that Rob, Guy and I have three different ideas of what constitutes "fake news" and also disagree on where to look for authoritative sources of information about it. I tried to fix the page in line with the Conservapedia commandments of something that is balanced and could be understood by a home-schooled high school student. However, the [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Fake_News&oldid=1329147 current version] seems to be a rehash of United States ideological and cultural wars and leave the impression that when you read something on the internet that you disagree with then you call it "fake news." The current text is incoherent name calling. At this point, I think we should find a way to decouple the fake news article from the 2016 election from liberal-conservative cross-criticism and just focus on the original problem: a bunch of people who made up outlandish attention grabbing click bait to profit from internet advertising. I know that there is both conservative and liberal mainstream media and that sometimes they are tricked into spreading fake news, but main source of spreading fake news is "sharing" on social media. I would like to see an article that if a high school student read it, he or she would never be tricked into sharing a fake news item. We can also cover how Google, facebook and Twitter try to combat fake news and the problems involved in censorship. We can also cover the legal issues. I will leave it to someone else to move this article back from the cliff of ideological one-up-man-ship. Thanks, [[User:JDano|JDano]] ([[User talk:JDano|talk]]) 10:34, 6 April 2017 (EDT)
:I think this article is much more balanced than it was at first. I kept the mention that both liberals and conservatives can fall to fake news, and I did moderate much of the wording. Also, the whole "fake news" controversy is too closely related to the election to separate entirely. Besides, I did move almost all mention of the election to the sub-section. I also kept your additions to the article, including how to spot fake news.
:Fake news means more than simply fake social media posts. We cannot avoid the fact that fake news comes from pretty much all mediums. --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 11:10, 6 April 2017 (EDT)