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Archives: April 11, 2017

“By the 1850s, the phenomenon was so widespread in Germany that it had become its own genre — the ‘unechte Korrespondenz,’ or ‘fake foreign correspondent’s letter,’ as people in the German news trade called it.”
As notícias falsas parecem credíveis porque recombinam pedaços de notícias, nomes, imagens, pessoas e locais que já vimos em contextos semelhantes.
“A nossa definição simples, para os objectivos da wiki, é que ‘verdade’ é algo em que geralmente acreditam as pessoas em posição de saber, que têm probabilidade de dizer a verdade.”
“Our simple definition, for the purposes of the wiki, is that ‘truth’ is something generally believed by people in a position to know, that are likely to tell the truth.”
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