Larry_Linguini t1_jaw9udk wrote
Reply to comment by fractiousrhubarb in On Facebook, Visual Misinfo Widespread. In the runup to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election visual misinformation was widespread across the platform, and that it was highly asymmetric across party lines, with right-leaning images five to eight times more likely to be misleading. by Wagamaga
https://i.imgur.com/GTubHzH.png When you have stuff like this from your political fact checkers I doubt anything can be unbiased.
AutomaticOrange4417 t1_jayr406 wrote
Those two statements are in contradiction. It looks like a typo. It says that Russian oil imports were up only 28%. I think the second bullet is meant to say that the US doubled it's oil imports in total, not just from Russia.
Also what website is that from? There's no source information, just a cropped screenshot. That's pretty bad evidence for a science subreddit
Larry_Linguini t1_jaytc8b wrote
It's from politifact, they state again that it doubled later in the article.. it's clearly nonsense. Their main argument is that we don't rely so heavily on Russian oil in general, why they made the title what it is I can only assume is done as a "gotcha". This shouldn't be the norm for a fact checking website but politifact and snopes has done this type of thing plenty of times.
fforw t1_jazw9kr wrote
And even worse, gotchas like this "balance" the score.
Inaccuracy here: One Misinformation
"Jewish Space Lasers": One Misinformation
timoshitskiy t1_jb1kx04 wrote
Trust me nothing that you see online is unbiased, everyone has got their point of view and they are going to push their agenda according to their point of view.
fractiousrhubarb t1_jayq43u wrote
Source? i.e. can you send a link to the original site this image came from?
btw- it’s worth mentioning that if I really wanted to know a specific thing about oil imports I’d go to wherever the trade data info originally came from, that being as close to reality as I can get.
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bobsafepayment t1_jb1xk8f wrote
Cannot trust any source these days because they all have their bias.
People are going to push the opinions with they believe in so it depends on your perspective also.
fractiousrhubarb t1_jb26rs3 wrote
But you must trust the source of the image you posted, otherwise you’d not have posted it?
The “can’t trust any source” meme is actually designed to work for the right/ corporate interests. Collective actions requires trust. Anything that harms trust empowers the right.
I trust media independent media outlets like Crikey.com.au and MichaelWest.com.au
I don’t trust News Corp because it was founded by an Australian mining magnate (in 1922) specifically to make propaganda.
krucen t1_jaz3gyu wrote
What's the issue? Crude oil isn't the only oil we import.
I can't truthfully say we've doubled cracker imports, by only pointing to a doubling of graham cracker imports.
Larry_Linguini t1_jaz8zb8 wrote
Alright, you may be on to something here.
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