The Sheep Look Down

How fucking stupid are/what is wrong w/ these people?

 Eli Saslow / Washington Post:

Profile of a “satire” site that promotes absurd pro-right posts on Facebook, and one of its readers, who shares its posts without seeing the satire  —  NORTH WATERBORO, Maine — The only light in the house came from the glow of three computer monitors, and Christopher Blair, 46, sat down at a keyboard and started to type.

Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog:   Partisan satire and the mechanisms of unintentional misinformation

Marty Baron / @postbaron:   “No matter how racist, how bigoted, how offensive, how obviously fake we get, people keep coming back.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Daniel Dale / @ddale8:   .@elisaslow is my favourite American journalist and everything he writes is spectacular. If you read one thing today: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Adam Tinworth / @adders:   Here's a horrible insight into how digital tools and age-old psychology can turn satire into conspiracy theories. This is why the “fake news” of misinformation and disinformation is going to be so very hard to combat. https://onemanandhisblog.com/ ...

Brett Levy / @brettdl:   Apparently the slogan, “Nothing on this page is real,” fails to get the point across that site is entirely #fakenews. #news #media http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Michael Socolow / @michaelsocolow:   It's just amazing to me that people would like & share articles with headlines like this: “Iowa Farmer Claims Bill Clinton had Sex with Cow during ‘Cocaine Party.’ "http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Nina Bernstein / @ninabernstein1:   Did you tell the Nevada woman she had been duped by a “liberal's” fake news satire? If so, why don't we learn her reaction? If you didn't try to disabuse her, isn't your story, however powerful & well-written, too close to the blogger's unethical & lucrative gotcha?

Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor:   Is it helpful for the @washingtonpost to do deep profiles of people who deliberately seed the extremist right's lie-filled world view — and in the process give the lies even more attention? http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Mark Little / @marklittlenews:   Incredible insights into warped psychology that governs the supply and demand for misinformation http://twitter.com/...

Alex Howard / @digiphile:   This is a bracing, fascinating descent into the maelstrom of partisan misinformation online. Worth the read. My only qualm: a Facebook page is NOT a website, & neither the @washingtonpost journalist nor his editor should report it that way. http://twitter.com/...

They made tham morons, now we have to live w/ the results. Or do we?