ITT, we take ███████ news sources and we black out anything that is bias or leading to the reader by █████████████████████
Rules of the meme: - Use 80% opacity (so people can read what you blacked out and make decisions themselves) - cite a source. - Do not Black out ANY facts. (Trump wants a wall. Hillary is popular with Latinos, the sky is blue) - Blackout all opinions and speculation (X is doing a terrible job, Y could be bad for the country, Z may cause X) - Watch Adjectives. Adjectives like greatly, horrible, or tenuous are occasionally attached to facts to give them a biased spin. - Do not black out PARTS of a quote. If you think a quote adds bias to an article, black out the ENTIRE quote and then, optionally, paraphrase the quote’s facts as objectively as possible.
But y tho? Isn’t this censorship?
To bring to light exactly how much bias we as readers are consuming. It’s just as dangerous to believe opinions are facts as it is to believe facts are opinions.
Tools of the Trade: - Gimp - Snipping tool w/ highlighter - PDF Annotator - 30 min in Microsoft paint - Screengrab + Powerpoint
Use your own good judgement, and remember, we are doing this to keep the public informed, not to sway them our way. Test CNN, test Breitbart, test Huffington Post. Test Infowars. If they cant pass our test, they don't deserve to be /ourguys/
Same poster as OP, emphasising "Fact-checking" just like Clinton did.
Literal CTR shills are running this.
Zachary Martin
OP, stop posting fully blacked out articles. Post only transparent/highlighting so we aren't accused of censorship.
Ian Robinson
To spread our work, use this hashtag.
DO NOT WRITE IT HERE IN TEXT
PLEASE ATTRIBUTE THE WORKS TO REDDIT
Adrian Allen
Remember everyone: mind the hash.
Kayden Bailey
>68 posters last thread > this one faggot is the third person to post in the new one
Angel Harris
Seconded. Also, avoid text edits like (((echoes))).
We don't need to give anyone any legitimate reasons to criticize what we're doing here.
Jace Phillips
Funposting is okay too, I think. Just make it obvious that it's supposed to be satire and it's fine.
Josiah Collins
Don't forget about pointing out bad grammar, punctuation and spelling.
Julian Williams
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Easton Stewart
bump
Hunter Edwards
Just go away, nobody likes your paranoid ass. We aren't censoring, we're pointing out what's opinion so normies get that they're being lulled into believing shit.
I'd also like to stress that we need to HIGHLIGHT or MARK WITH TRANSPARENT TOOLS to avoid getting called Big Brother, CTR, minitruth, etc.
Ethan Foster
>literally censoring news
Jose Barnes
>just an angry black guy why does this work so well
Jason Campbell
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Anthony Collins
Not even taking you seriously anymore.
Pls go "kudasai"
Jordan Baker
Are media outlets required to cite their sources?
I was talking with my roommate about this and was dumbfounded at the idea that there aren't at least basic requirements to report and cite sources. Literally every essay a person writes in university requires citations.
Adam Torres
>Donald Trump must harness the power of the presidency
Adam Stewart
They """are""", but then they usually only cite other articles, which cite other articles, which cite other articles, which cite other articles, which cite other articles, which cite other articles, which cite other articles... etc.
Landon Wood
embarrassing to read this intellectually dishonest drivel.
Robert White
we need a website for this, I want to read #fixednews every day
Parker Gray
bump
fucking m8
Jace Green
We will probabyl have a mega or mediafire folder where we upload all of the stuff we make.
We need stuff, first, though.
Jace Edwards
>We aren't censoring, we're pointing out what's opinion so normies get that they're being lulled into believing shit.
Question is why? Trump won, purely because of this shit. "normies" can easily discern what is bias and what isn't. A Trump victory is proof of that.
As I said in the previous thread, bigotry of low expectations is a hallmark of the left way of thinking, so much so that they themselves are usually unaware of it and it becomes a massive tell.
If any of the drivel you spout true, then Trump should have won in a landslide. He didn't.
People still listen to the bullshit spouted by places like CNN, Huffington, etc. Moreover, Breitbart is showing signs that it is also willing to step up its bias game like the rest of the MSM because it finds that people don't care, or people don't know when they agree with the bias.
You are stupid.
Adrian Myers
Yep.
They cite each other cyclically to further justify their lies.
"Trump is a racist"
Still no evidence...
Joseph Baker
Use the marker brush on paint.
Elijah Myers
Not even bullshitting, I have followed more than once, a story to find a final source, only to go through about 7 increasingly fringe websites (fearing that I might get a virus sooner or later) until it ended with a site that did NOT cite any source.
Not even bullshitting you.
Austin Bell
my only hope is that someone responsible has to be forced to admit to the bullshit. cnn, nbc, yahoo, google, breitbart, reuters. it doesn't matter where you go, and they refuse to acknowledge it.
Aiden Sullivan
Perfect.
Ryder Butler
Only going to get worse, until we force them to acknowledge.
Jack Martin
The liberal media is falling on it's sword as they are failing to realise that their opinion based drivel is what is killing them.
Actively pointing it out and giving them a chance to change while trying to censor them is like taking the sword from their hands and stabbing yourself with it.
Colton Reyes
This was cited by Robert Graves as a main method used by the newspapers to spread nonsense stories about evil Germans, to foment WWI. The newspaper in question would, through unchecked requotes by sister papers, actually be repeating itself.
Henry King
Stupid analogy
Ethan Nelson
My favorite meme is the "source loop" - a wikipedia article cites some shitty website as a source, which in turn cites wikipedia as a source, which in turn cites the same website as a source, and so on and so forth.
Ryder Price
In the long term you're right, but the media doesn't adjust so quickly.
They've honed these tricks for decades; they're not soon to give them up so quickly.
At least they can be exposed at Facebook and Twitter speeds. By that time, the MSM will never be able to catch up, especially now when they're extremely vulnerable.
Gavin Foster
Sounds like a potential font of tears to me. Nothing infuriated news-kikes more than having their works tampered with.
fucking shame Greenwald took a hard left after reporting on the Snowden stuff
Alexander Ortiz
This was typed by a 4-year-old with the vocabulary of a living room sofa, but surprisingly little bias from this NPR article.
Josiah Hall
Delete this post please. DO NOT write the hashtag
Jackson Stewart
Why not? Or are you joking?
Charles Jenkins
No joke, damnit. We can't let Jewgle search find the hashtag and trace it to fucking Sup Forums Sup Forums. It will ruin it's reputation in a heartbeat.
Gabriel Flores
when the media goes looking for the origin they will find us. #deletethis.
The first people to post the hashtag have to be reddit
Ryan Morgan
Loose lips sink ships.
Noah Bennett
jesus fucking christ how hard is the rectangle tool to use stop using a fucking paintbrush, it looks like fucking shit and I'm not saving your awful picture
Jose Gomez
Fuck. It's probably already too late for him to delete that fucking post.
Fucking idiot
Kevin Williams
>i'm not saving your picture and you should really care about whether or not I save your picture
piss off or do it yourself
Aiden Edwards
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>████ ████ ████ how hard is the rectangle tool to use >stop using a █████ paintbrush, ██ ████ ████ █████ ████ ███ I'm not saving your ███ picture
>i'm not saving your picture and you should really care about whether or not I save your picture THE POINT OF CAMPAIGNS LIKE THIS IS TO SAVE AND REDISTRIBUTE PICTURES IF YOUR PICTURE LOOKS LIKE DOGSHIT IT WILL NOT BE SAVED AND REDISTRIBUTED
ARE YOU BRAINDEAD?
Nathan Richardson
> Gimp, bro. Not a substitute for photoshop, but way better than paint.
Bentley Morales
Who cares, post memes.
Elijah Evans
And then here's this retard
Brandon Wilson
ez mode, the entire article is this garbage. what's a good chrome full screen shot tool?
Zachary Martin
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Cooper Evans
DO IT YOUR FUCKING FAG SELF THEN
Mason Morgan
Just make a subreddit and do this there if you don't want it tracked back to here. So long as you can keep things truly unbiased and pull articles from all sources it should take off fine.
If you truly want them to grab this, then censor some Infowars, Breitbart, etc. at first to get others involved and then expand to other sources. The whole point is that once people start with shit like this it can get addicting and they will start applying to articles from all sources.
Ryder Stewart
The thing is, this is exactly what they want.
The angle they are shooting for is "Sup Forums and ardent Trump supporters are trying to censor the media"
Jackson Gray
This literally looks like
>Sup Forums censors what they dont want to hear
but its funny and i like it
i hope this shit makes it to twitter
Tyler Flores
Here's a CNN article.
Anthony Roberts
If they think they can do a better job telling "Just the Facts," then they are welcome to start doing the job again.
It was done better than any of us could hope to do back in the 70's. 24 hour news networks ruined news.
Josiah Brown
There are a lot of emotional modifiers left out like "somewhat", "go-to resource", "users cheered", the paragraph of "clearly view bannon's appointment..." is also full of biased words
Ryder Murphy
And, in contrast, here's a Huffington Post "article". I redacted all opinions and lies.
Hudson Mitchell
short and sweet
Owen Cooper
>The angle they are shooting for is "Sup Forums and ardent Trump supporters are trying to censor the media" If they go for that it blows up in their face because that has more spin on it than a fucking Beyblade.
>Sup Forums highlights and blocks out emotional language, speculation, and opinions in our articles. It truly is another shoah.
>Now Diane with how unreliable Breitbart is and why Trump really is Hitler we promise.
People aren't taking the mainstream media at face value anymore.
Blake Ramirez
It really gives one a sense of perspective. No matter how shit CNN is, Huffpo easily blows them out of the water.
Nolan Nguyen
Wow this is actually on objective well written article. It's straight hard news which should be straight facts
amazing what you've done OP
I approve
Brayden Robinson
In the second one, you can literally see me start to get sick of using the marker tool to black out every single line, because my work gets sloppier. But you can see the structure really well there- it's an initial burst of facts and then a massive amount of garbage opinions and hit pieces. They quoted (((Shapiro))) and a Harry Reid spokesperson, because apparently Senator Reid was too busy getting kneecapped by Vegas mafia again to give a quote about how Bannon is the Devil.
Noah Anderson
kek
Christopher Rodriguez
I wish Reid would lose. I have no idea how someone who openly admits to lying without regret can be trusted by his constituents.
Joseph Rogers
I'll wager it's purely (((coincidental))) that he's still in office.
Isaac Sanders
This sounds like a fantastic machine learning idea. With enough effort and a polished extension (created at arm's length from this hive of *{ist, phobic}, deplorables) I can legitimately see this being memed to wide acceptance.
James Morris
I am a warrior in the physical world, not the Wired. I trust you and others to accomplish this, and look forward to using it.
Mason Wood
Sam "Spray and Pray" Hyde! What have you done??? the red boxes around the pictures represent the obvious biased presentation, but I didn't want to block them wholly out, it's much clearer to see how they frame your reality and perception this way
Honestly who gives a fuck where something like this originates. The whole point is to be bias free. If people see our work, get pissy and then censor "alt-right" bias in news that is perfect. Remember that both sides are guilty of indoctrination and are trying to create controlled opposition.
Jason Bailey
306/232 is a pretty decisive win.
Jose Diaz
kek
Leo White
It's easy to shrug off as "oh it's just those racists from Sup Forums".
Grayson Harris
Not in popular votes. Country split cleanly in half.
Logan Phillips
So make sure to start the trickle to the public by solely targeting "right wing bias in reporting" to get the project off the ground and then pull the rug out from under them. Make it about 1.5:1 conservative liberal sources at first and then once it has gained some traction start shifting it to 1:1. By the time it reaches 1:1.5 it should already be self sustainable.
Just be aware that by doing this you are willingly giving up control of the project to the public and have to rely on them to maintain the integrity and vision.
Eli Reed
I've been thinking about it for a minute... I feel like transparent highlighting is the way to go. While redaction with black ink feels really fucking good while you're doing it, I think we'll have more success exporting this if we just highlight what the media is doing wrong. Maybe it'll help normies see through the lies. That way they can learn to identify bias, lies, emotional weighting, and opinion.
Tyler Butler
Duterte is right. My implication wasn't that we somehow program alt-right bias into the app, but that even a fair #blackoutbias app would be shunned if it's obvious it comes from Sup Forums.
It should lack Sup Forums-tier branding, including snarky memes in the description, etc.
