• Gamoc@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Ok how are you fact checking, are you finding people with expertise and contacting them or googling and using whatever shite websites come up as a source? If the latter, how are you verifying the veracity of those sources?

    And yes sources are required but that doesn’t mean that’s ALL that’s required or you wouldn’t have newspapers or organisations, just some people calling themselves journalists that have a bunch of sources, but nobody knows what for because they’ve never produced a piece of journalism for them to be of use.

    The idea used to be that you find a news source that is the most reliable. Now half the world just finds the one that confirms their biases the most, and their biases are fucking stupid after decades of lies and education cuts from various rich cunts.

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      8 days ago

      […] how are you fact checking, are you finding people with expertise and contacting them or googling and using whatever shite websites come up as a source? […]

      It depends on the context.

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      And yes sources are required but that doesn’t mean that’s ALL that’s required or you wouldn’t have newspapers or organisations, just some people calling themselves journalists that have a bunch of sources.

      I agree that the existence of sources aren’t themselves examples of journalism.

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      8 days ago

      […] The idea used to be that you find a news source that is the most reliable. Now half the world just finds the one that confirms their biases the most […]

      How are you determining/measuring reliability?

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          Using what method? You seemed to be making a point that an “average person” isn’t qualified to fact check claims when you said

          Ok how are you fact checking, are you finding people with expertise and contacting them or googling and using whatever shite websites come up as a source? If the latter, how are you verifying the veracity of those sources?