Which is none of them, right? So this is a lie?
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Disagreeing isn’t a good excuse to smear someone.
2. It’s a pandemic with much of the last 9 months in lockdown.
3. The numbers in certain categories are much higher than reported because most people have given up and don’t bother reporting
What is selfish is you punishing someone else with the same skin color, and then upholding literal racism as a virtue.
They absolutely should lose their shit over that.
Considering the clear bias of the authors, their findings are not surprising, and I suspect that folks on the right would disagree with their classifications. Classifying "misinformation" in a non-partisan way is not a straightforward task at all.
They also seem to be grouping things by source, not by article. They appear to decide something is a "misinformation source", and then count everything coming from that outlet as misinformation.
https://www.mathyvanhoef.com/2012/05/whatsapp-considered-ins...
https://www.mathyvanhoef.com/2012/07/whatsapp-follow-up-unau...
Companies are very porous, people take shortcuts, temporary workarounds get forgotten and left in place, etc.
You can tell who actually has real experience by who is saying this and getting downvoted for it, ironically. All of the downvoted comments in this thread are correct.
You don’t suddenly acquire aspergers in your 40s or 50s when your same behavior caused no issue whatsoever just 5 years ago.
The easy way to tell that it’s disingenuous? Search this on Google:
site:nytimes.com "nigger"
Appearing in print in his same publication as recently as 2018, 2019, and even December of 2020. So it was fine to print in appropriate context before he said it, and after he said it, but that particular week it was racist and unforgivable. Pretty clear what’s really going on here.
A student asked me: “Do you think one of my classmates should have been suspended for using the N-word in a video from two years ago?”
I said: “Well, wait — what exactly happened on this video? Did she actually call someone “nigger”? Or was she just using it in passing, like quoting the title of a book?”
Because when he asked for context around how the person said “nigger”, he didn’t self-censor when making reference to the word.
That’s it.
That’s how bad this juvenile cancel culture mob has become. They let some 15 year old activist wannabe complain to the paper and get him fired.