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[–] -1 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

(In case it is unclear to anyone, this post is a tongue-in-cheek response to my criticism of the OP's practices in creating a community devoted solely to creative writing exercises to produce fake news. Those news articles are, I contend, harmful to the Lemmy community, as they are too-easily misconstrued as real by any user who was directed to them by their feed. Additionally, I criticised the glib, flippant nature of their responses to criticism.

As such, I wholeheartedly stand by "Robert Wolfram's" take. Except the leash thing. For some reason they made that up, but I do stand by the comments I've made here, even if they are similarly tongue-in-cheek responses.)

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    I think these posts are a wake up call. We all learned in school how to evaluate a source of information, yet we've gotten used to just accepting whatever we see online without any proof at all. In the grand scheme of things the fake news being spread is harmless, and if it teaches people to be more alert I say make a bunch more articles.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    If there were something here to actually create that discrepant moment, something at the bottom of the text or in the comments from the OP which says "you've just eaten the onion" or similar, then I would have no problem. Then, it WOULD be educational, and an excellent reminder as you say. However, there is no such indicator from the OP. That means that people will not actually get the learning experience unless someone points it out in the comments. Hence, I point it out in the comments.

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