irstupid said:
Fox New, CNN, MSNBC, ect are HUGE compared to other outlets like Breitbart. So them retracting is important. The trouble is though, that when they "break" the story it is all over the headlines, newswaves, tv, ect. They talk about it for days, weeks. Have guests on and discuss it ot all high hell. Ect. Then when the story ends up being smoke, false, ect, there is a small byline that retracts it. 99% of the people who saw the initial report don't ever find out it was retracted/false/fake. That mostly teh news fault, but it's also the users fault. You see an article that say "Trump pees on girls" you click the hell out of it. You see an article that says "update, he doesn't pee on girls" you ignore it cause it's not as exciting. So even if buzzfeed or whoever wanted to get th word out of a correction, their articles correcting are getting piss poor traffic and thus they move on to higher traffic stories. Their online algorithms also probably push down the low traffic stories off main page/headlines, and thus again retracted/fixed/updated stories don't see the light of day and most people still beleive the false one earlier. |
Agreed, and this problem seems to have some permanence: they need the views to make money, so the prioritize the views.
