AutomaticOrange4417 t1_jayr406 wrote
Reply to comment by Larry_Linguini 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
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
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