Post everything FAKE related here - from observations about Orson Welles's film, F for Fake, to examples of fakery spotted in the news and on social media etc. Deep fake videos, anyone? New and subtle forms of media/political fakery, natural evolutionary faking, "false flag" fakes, benign vs malign fakery, etc. I'll start the ball rolling with a few examples...
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Social media seems flooded with lies & fakes like this. 72,000 'likes' for a claim that could be refuted in a second. Swamping the internet with the idea that Biden is as bad as Trump, et al, on every issue, so that people no longer know what to think.
Some science on why those who fall for fake news & baseless conspiracy theories tend to be wired more towards the "conservative" end of the spectrum than the "liberal". Quote:
“We’ve tried to do [fake news with] liberals. It just has never worked, it never takes off. You'll get debunked within the first two comments and then the whole thing just kind of fizzles out.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/24/2088332/-Science-has-answers-to-why-conservatives-fall-so-easily-for-COVID-19-and-Russian-propaganda
The social media promotion of falsehoods (6x faster than facts - see prev post) is an overwhelming effect, not a starting design, of the business model:
"the business model is to addict you, and then offer a channel (to you) to third parties to take advantage of that, to change you in some way without you realising it's happening" - Jaron Lanier
‘There’s a study, an MIT study, that fake news on Twitter spreads six times faster than true news. What is that world gonna look like when one has a six-times advantage to the other one?’ – Tristan Harris, The Social Dilemma
Here's the cited MIT study, which concludes:
'False news stories are 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than true stories are. It also takes true stories about six times as long to reach 1,500 people as it does for false stories to reach the same number of people.'
One of the few sections of F for Fake that doesn't contain fakery? (Or is it?). Orson Welles on Chartres cathedral. (I visited Chartres in early 1980s - medieval masterpiece in stone, with dark interior, incredible west rose window and suggestive symbolism scattered around the cathedral - at the heart of a tiny French village. Made a big impression on me - I can see why Orson singles it out in this way).
A meme that's been "doing the rounds" on Facebook, Twitter, etc, for a while. A quote attributed to Dostoevsky.
But it's fake.
(I also think it's a dumb quote, but that's just my opinion).