Stop talking about fake news
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This article argued that this terminology is not up to scratc... and argued that it is not suitable for academic work that fixes its subject matter using the terms "fake news" and "post-truth".Abstract:
Since 2016, there has been an explosion of academic work that fixes its subject matter using the terms ‘fake news’ and ‘post-truth’. In this paper, I argue that this terminology is not up to scratc...read more
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Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
Hunt Allcott,Matthew Gentzkow +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that people are much more likely to believe stories that favor their preferred candidate, especially if they have ideologically segregated social media networks, and that the average American adult saw on the order of one or perhaps several fake news stories in the months around the 2016 U.S. presidential election, with just over half of those who recalled seeing them believing them.
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Logical Foundations of Probability
TL;DR: Logical Foundations of Probability By Rudolf Carnap Pp xvii + 607 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd, 1951) 42s net as mentioned in this paper
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Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
TL;DR: Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny as discussed by the authors by Manne Kate, published by Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 368. Price £20.99 £15.99.
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How to do things with words
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a series of lectures with the following topics: Lecture I * Lecture II* Lecture III * Lectures IV* Lectures V * LectURE VI * LectURES VI * LII * LIII * LIV * LVI * LIX
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Naming and Necessity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make a connection between the mind-body problem and the so-called "identity thesis" in analytic philosophy, which has wide-ranging implications for other problems in philosophy that traditionally might be thought far-removed.
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Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
Hunt Allcott,Matthew Gentzkow +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that people are much more likely to believe stories that favor their preferred candidate, especially if they have ideologically segregated social media networks, and that the average American adult saw on the order of one or perhaps several fake news stories in the months around the 2016 U.S. presidential election, with just over half of those who recalled seeing them believing them.
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
TL;DR: Noble's Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism is devastating as mentioned in this paper, which reduces to rubble the notion that technology is neutral and ideology-free.