Adam Blackwell ProQuestWhen it comes to what most people think of as fake news(demonstrably false information presented as truth), we are usually willing participants in our own fooling. But there’s another kind of fake news: demonstrably true information that’s presented as false. In this session, we’ll see how political leaders, actors, and other public figures have used this second kind of fake news to immunize themselves from legitimate criticisms. We’ll also see why educators, not engineers, represent our best hope for reclaiming facts and enforcing accountability.
16. Research: Bacon Nails It
“The human understanding, once it has
adopted opinions, either because they were
already accepted and believed, or because
it likes them, draws everything else to
support and agree with them.”
– Sir Francis Bacon (1620)
17. Takeaway 2 (of 3)
biography.com/people/francis-bacon-9194632
Bacon summed it all up in 1620.
Everything since has been a
footnote.
18. The Other Kind of Fake News (Part 3)
News
THAT’S CALLED FAKE
BUT IT’S REAL
19. The “Fake News” Cycle
“Our problem now is not that fake
news is posing as real news but, rather,
than real news is being dismissed as
fake news.” (January 25, 2017)
“It felt like an insight a few weeks
ago, but now it’s obvious: the
problem is less that we treat fake
news as real but, on the contrary,
that we treat real news as fake.”
(February 19, 2017)
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41. No Shared Facts
Katrina (2005) Harvey (2017)
cnn.com/2013/08/23/us/hurricane-katrina-statistics-fast-facts/index.html news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/climate-change-study-hurricane-harvey-flood/
42. Two Kinds of Fake News
Fake information
that looks real
Real information
dismissed as fake
Believe what you want
Don’t believe
what you don’t want
BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANT
43. Understanding What Drives
Both Kinds Of Fake News…
Means We Have To Stop
Dreaming Of Tech
Solutions To Either
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