Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Is the art of fact checking obsolete now???
Really!, it's amazing the knowledge you can gather thru Google. Talked to an acquaintance the other day, who said, she NEVER uses Google, really! Pick your fact checking sources before posting, and you will be amazed at how much you will learn and how much you've gotten wrong.
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The only facts that some believe are the ones that match the set of beliefs they already believe. “Only a wise person has the ability to change their mind.” Anonymous
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Most people are as happy as they make up their mind to be. Abraham Lincoln |
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There you are, "Only a wise person has the ability to change their mind", Amen!!!!
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I think DuckDuckGo is less biased.
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They are only interested in making money, and they do that by providing you with links that keep you using them. If you believe they have an agenda, well, there it is money, they want more of it. |
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It is in a sense, that it does not use your browsing history to add weight to the listings it thinks you want to read. Googles only interest in prioritizing listings is to make you happy and so they make more money. Any other suggestions are just another conspiracy.
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I ask myself everyday, what if "they" are correct. Sadly for the most part THEY are not. But, sometimes THEY are, and I have some soul searching to do... |
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I dunno - I just checked duck duck go vs. google and typed in "what is treason." On the first page of results (I rarely ever check a second page), most of the links were the same. Both of them offered wikipedia in the top 3.
I checked "insurrection" (just that word by itself) on duckduckgo. Got these, in order: merriam-webster definition, followed by yahoo news, kansas city news, and business insider (all 3 links to videos), followed by 4 more dictionary definitions, followed by a CNN report, a history.com report, another CNN report, a gatewaypundit report, and an abc report. On google, I got - in order: a definition, then a merriam-webster definition, then yahoo news, star advertiser news, and msnbc news (all 3 links to videos/reports), followed by npr, then cambridge dictionary definition, then wikipedia, then youtube, the NYTimes, then MSNBC, then vocabulary stuff about the word itself. Now, considering that I don't read the gateway pundit ever, and I refuse to read the NYTimes because you have to pay to subscribe and I won't pay, you can cancel those two out. What's left over? Both of them value CNN enough to put them on the first page of results, and both value Wikipedia enough to put them on the first page of results. I'm not seeing bias there at all. |
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In defense of paywall, these news sites do have to pay their bills. The supported free viewing for a long time but I fully understand why they stopped. Used to pay for a newspaper, now pay to see decent, vetted news online. |
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Who/what is "the gateway pundit"? |
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Imo in today’s environment they no actual fact checking. It’s either us or them facts moves the facts to opinions. Actually the only facts are seen by the one observing. Now the problem lies when they tell the story and how that story interpreted. Just cause you read about it or buy book and read it don’t make it true.
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