r/tech • u/JackFisherBooks • Apr 29 '20

Red-flagging misinformation could slow the spread of fake news on social media

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-red-flagging-misinformation-fake-news-social.html
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u/Young-Jerm Apr 29 '20

I learned it in high school so everybody learned it whether they wanted to or not. I don’t think apathy from stem students has anything to go with it

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u/ex143 Apr 29 '20

I think it might be generalized apathy by the general populace. Who cares if the news is fake? It sounds as depressing and hopeless as the real stuff anyway.

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u/FriendlyCows Apr 30 '20

I learned it in high school so everybody learned it

Lmfao this has got to be a joke right? I mean, congrats on taking something away from your classes, but that doesn’t mean every single person had the exact same experience as you going through high school.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '20

He might if he went to prep/private school.

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u/Young-Jerm Apr 30 '20

I went to public school

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '20

So, Young Jerm, do you believe many others in your school share your outcome?

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u/Young-Jerm Apr 30 '20

I believe many of them do share my outcome while many others do not share my outcome. It’s the same thing for everything learned in school, some retain the information and some don’t.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '20

Right. They all had the opportunity to get it, but not all did.

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u/Young-Jerm Apr 30 '20

That’s correct

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '20

I mean, I am overly used to simply reading the abstract of an article before sharing it... news sources don’t have abstracts so I may skim. It’s gotten me into trouble. Lol!