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New study suggests Trump's cries of "fake news" are backfiring
Posted on 1/23/20 at 8:44 pm
Posted on 1/23/20 at 8:44 pm
More "science".
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People tend to become more trusting of news stories after being exposed to President Donald Trump’s tweets attacking so-called “fake news,” according to new research published in Mass Communication and Society. The findings provide evidence that Trump’s tweets are having the opposite of their intended effect.
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“There had been a great deal of popular concern, both from the public and journalism outlets, about Trump’s disparagement of news media via Twitter and labeling legitimate news organizations as ‘fake news.’ We thought to design a quick study to empirically validate those concerns and show just how damaging the tweets were to people’s perceptions of journalistic credibility and trust,” remarked study author Daniel J. Tamul, an assistant professor of communication at Virginia Tech.
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The researchers conducted an initial pilot study with 331 people, in which some participants were randomly assigned to read a tweet from Trump saying the “very dishonest Fake News Media is out of control” before reading an Associated Press news story about immigration.
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“Our first study found no evidence for a relationship between simple exposure to the fake news tweet and perceptions of the story or author so we cast a wider net in our second study,” Tamul said.
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Prior to reading the content, some of the participants were exposed to 30 actual tweets from Trump that disparaged journalism or news organizations, such as “I will represent our country well and fight for its interests! Fake News Media will never cover me accurately but who cares! We will #MAGA!”
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But the researchers again found no evidence that reading Trump’s tweets made people more likely to doubt the credibility of the news items. “What we found was precisely the opposite of what we expected,” Tamul explained.
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“It is possible that the damage from Trump’s tweets or other factors have already saturated the mediascape and as a result any additional exposure to tweets about ‘fake news’ does not further diminish credibility. Reading more tweets from Trump may simply be an indicator of greater political engagement from readers. We also controlled for political ideology and a host of other factors in this study, so these findings should be interpreted with that in mind,” Tamul explained.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 8:45 pm to tiggerthetooth
Fake News is reporting about Fake News
Posted on 1/23/20 at 8:46 pm to tiggerthetooth
That is a lie. About lies. From liars
Posted on 1/23/20 at 8:46 pm to tiggerthetooth
Study funded by CNN?
Posted on 1/23/20 at 8:46 pm to tiggerthetooth
quote:
331 people
cool
Posted on 1/23/20 at 8:48 pm to tiggerthetooth
"than had Trump stayed silent"
Obvious fake news is obvious fake news.
Shut up Orange Man and accept our bullshite like an old Republican.
Obvious fake news is obvious fake news.
Shut up Orange Man and accept our bullshite like an old Republican.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 8:49 pm to tiggerthetooth
quote:Is this the typical 331 college students responding to an on-campus ad for psych studies for either financial benefit or free stuff? Because if it's typical college kids they don't respond like the general public of mixed age/socio-econ folks especially in regard to both news agencies and twitter.
an initial pilot study with 331 people
Posted on 1/23/20 at 8:51 pm to tiggerthetooth
The train ain’t stopping, I loved when early in his administration the pool reporters would tell him it was unpresidential. Their concern troll questions were thrown right back in their face.
He is the BOSS
He is the BOSS
Posted on 1/23/20 at 8:53 pm to tiggerthetooth
This is like reading some George Orwell crazy arse shite.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 8:56 pm to tiggerthetooth
FAKE NEWS
Posted on 1/23/20 at 8:59 pm to tiggerthetooth
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The researchers conducted an initial pilot study with 331 people
They polled CNN’s entire viewership?
Posted on 1/23/20 at 8:59 pm to tiggerthetooth
Reading this only increases my belief that Trump is stomping a mudhole in their arse.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 9:01 pm to tiggerthetooth
Posted on 1/23/20 at 9:02 pm to tiggerthetooth
So they took a general comment from Trump and then had them read a specific article?
How about taking a specific quote from Trump on a specific news article and then let them read the article or watch the broadcast?
Might we see different results?
How about taking a specific quote from Trump on a specific news article and then let them read the article or watch the broadcast?
Might we see different results?
Posted on 1/23/20 at 9:02 pm to tiggerthetooth
Verifiably true - after all, his attacks on CNN have vaulted them to #1 in cable news.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 9:06 pm to tiggerthetooth
Let’s see what their sample looked like.
Posted on 1/23/20 at 9:32 pm to tiggerthetooth
Posted on 1/23/20 at 9:32 pm to tiggerthetooth
Fake Fake News?
Posted on 1/23/20 at 9:47 pm to tiggerthetooth
Someone is hoping that this gets back to Trump and he believes it, therefor no longer calling their BS reporting fake news
Posted on 1/23/20 at 9:57 pm to tiggerthetooth
Fake News....
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