Calling Bullshit 9.3: The Ecology of Fake News

Fake news is not a new thing. It has been around for a long time but social media, bots and highly partisan environments are spreading fake news easier.
May 24, 2017
Course: INFO 198 / BIOL 106B. University of Washington
Instructors: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West
Synopsis: Our world is saturated with bullshit. Learn to detect and defuse it.
The course will be offered as a 1-credit seminar this spring through the Information School at the University of Washington. We aim to expand it to a 3 or 4 credit course for 2017-2018. For those who cannot attend in person, we aim to videotape the lectures this spring and make video clips freely available on the web.
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Video edited by Bum Mook Oh
Music by Chris Zabriskie: Prelude No.7

[@CraigGood]

The Weekly World News was in many ways a precursor to The Onion. It was just flat-out hilarious, but it didn't label itself as satire.

[@Ron_the_Skeptic]

We find ourselves at the end of 2021, when the main stream media outlets are passing more misinformation than the Internet is!

[@crm8241]

Gotta call bullshit on the “trust thermometer” it only shows up til 2012 which misses out on critical information which could potentially prove or disprove your claims.

[@slaya6316]

Hi