• @cmhe@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This is why we don’t have nice things… we rather think that an incorrect statement from a random unknown person on the internet comes from someone lazy or nefarious, that from someone just making a joke.

    I think it is funny to think of ‘NEWS’ as a abbreviation, why else would so many news media print it in capitals.

    • Fugtig Fisk
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      114 months ago

      The way the internet works, people have no chance to know if you’re kidding or being serious. It takes one misunderstanding, to turn a distribution of a joke into distribution of misinformation

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        -34 months ago

        Sure. However there is a difference between “NEWS is a acroym for something” and much more hurtful and/or political/commercial motivated spread of misinformation.

        • Fugtig Fisk
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          64 months ago

          Any misinformation is imo a problem, no matter if it is intentional, unintentional, hurtful or innocent

          Its the practise of misinformation that i find dangerous, no matter what its about. I understand that misinformation can be funny though, but it must clearly show that it is a joke