June 18, 2018 - Real Coffe - Scott Adams
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| Okay, so this just happened. | |
| A lot of you don't understand how bad fake news is. | |
| If you're famous, though, if you're in the public eye, you see examples of it about yourself that give you a whole different view of how fake the news is. | |
| So here's a good example from today. | |
| I'm literally sitting here cartooning. | |
| I'm drawing cartoons, writing cartoons, doing my cartooning job, and I take a break And open up a browser. | |
| And I go to Business Insider. | |
| There's a story by Kif Leswing. | |
| Now, I'm going to show you Kif Leswing's profile in a minute because it's him with a bad beard and a cat. | |
| Those of you who have been following me know how funny that is. | |
| But anyway, they talk about Kanye West and they talk about me. | |
| And there are two facts they say about me. | |
| Are that I'm a former cartoonist and that I'm a right-wing provocateur. | |
| Well, I read that while I was doing my current job of cartooning. | |
| I'm actually reading fake news about me. | |
| At the moment, it's fake. | |
| Like live, real time. | |
| I'm actually doing the thing they're saying I'm not doing. | |
| While I read the news. | |
| Now, if you're just a person, a regular citizen who reads the news, and it's not about you, you're probably under the impression, well, yeah, they make some mistakes, but you can usually tell when they're off making mistakes. | |
| But it can't be that often. | |
| It can't be that often there's fake news. | |
| Well, in 48 hours, I've already presented to you, I think, six unambiguous clear examples of fake news that you could very easily verify as fake. | |
| And it doesn't stop it from happening. | |
| And the reason is because most of you can't tell the difference. | |
| But when I read the news, I also can't tell the difference Unless it's about me. | |
| And if you look at all the news that came out about me, it was roughly half of it was fake news. | |
| You know, there was a real part. | |
| I did some videos. I talked about Kanye West. | |
| He tweeted about it. | |
| Those are all facts. But pretty much everything they said about me was completely made up or out of context or intentionally mislead. | |
| So, I'm going to keep this short. | |
| I just wanted to show you a clean example of fake news, you know, while it's fresh and happening. | |
| And watch how long it takes them to correct this, because by now people have tweeted them and said, you know, how long does it take to find out he's still working? | |
| So, let's watch and see how long it takes. | |
| Hello, Bill Pulte. | |
| And hello to the rest of you. | |
| I'm going to keep this short. I just wanted to give you that one example of fake news. | |
| I swear, the people who are in the news have a completely different sense Of the percentage of the news that is fake. | |
| When it's about you, you can tell. | |
| There's no ambiguity about it. | |
| It's like there are people telling me what I'm doing and what I'm thinking and I can tell pretty reliably whether that's accurate. | |
| So roughly when celebrities are involved, maybe half of what you read is completely made up. | |
| Roughly half. How much do you think is made up about world affairs where you can't really check? | |
| Probably more than half. | |
| Alright, so there's your bit of cynicism for the day. |
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