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Lies and conspiracies

Q: What are examples of different beliefs in conspiracy?

Socio-economic fear -Right-wing political attitudes are driven by fear and uncertainly. Fearful, closedminded, outgrip derogatory (denigrerend) and prejudiced (bevooroordeeld), -People who are more centrist put themselves in the middle. -Difference between right and left orientated people -People who're more centrist put themselves in the middle.

5 important questions on Lies and conspiracies

What it different groups only talk to each other?

The core idea of democracy is speaking and arguing to one another. A democratic society can only exist when we talk to each other. If we don't have conversation: distrust. You can only trust somebody when you know him or her. A certain level of distrust is necessary, but you have to have trust to predict how people behalve. You don't like people who are unpredictable.

What are conspiracy beliefs?

Conspiracy = samenzwering.

Conspiracy theories: suspicions that real or anticipated threats to the social order were intentionally and executed by a secret conspiracy of evil individuals or groups (there's another out there to get to you, to harm you, to threaten your life.) The enemy is not always a foreign enemy, but also inside like powerful institutions. Example: 9/11: people were saying bush did it instead of Al Qaida.

What is the central point of a conspiracy?

It consist of multiple actor (group of people meet and they want to do something to the world). So the act of an individual is not conspiracy.

What are examples of different beliefs in conspiracy?

Socio-economic fear
-Right-wing political attitudes are driven by fear and uncertainly. Fearful, closedminded, outgrip derogatory (denigrerend) and prejudiced (bevooroordeeld),
-People who are more centrist put themselves in the middle.
-Difference between right and left orientated people
-People who're more centrist put themselves in the middle.

For a source to be labeled as junk news, it must fall in at least 3 of 5 domains. What are these 5 domains? (article 1)

1. Professionalism: providing clear info about real authors, editors, publishers etc. They lack transparency, accountability and don't publish corrections on debunked information.
2. Style: using emotionally driven language and expressions, misleading headlines and usafe generalisations.
3. Credibility: sources are often untrustworthy and their standarts of news production lack credibility.
4. Bias: reporting in these outlets is highly biased (partijdig) and ideologically skewed.
5. Counterfeit (namaak): these articles mimic professional news media: they counterfeit fonts, branding and stylistic contents strategies. So a certain new stone with bylines, date, time and location stamps.

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