Great American Fake Off

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

News, Science, Society & Culture, Culture, Comedy, Internet, Pop, Games, Gadgets

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Some 82% of middle-schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled “sponsored content” and a real news story on a website, according to a Stanford University study of 7,804 students from middle school through college. The study is the biggest so far on how teens evaluate information they find online, and it has Anthony and Jeff wondering what the future of "news" will bring.

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0:00.0	So here's a fun fact, the only way that we fund this show, the only way that we pay all the bills is through Patreon,
0:06.9	is through audience donations. If you want to find out more, including what we give to our audience in exchange for those donations,
0:13.2	which technically makes it either bribery or payoffs.
0:18.4	Hmm.
0:19.0	Whoa, I never thought of it that way.
0:21.5	Phil Thie lukeur.
0:22.7	Don't talk about it.
0:23.5	Oh god, the whole system's corrupt.
0:25.9	Patreon.com slash we have concerns is a scam perpetrated by us.
0:31.6	Shhh.
0:32.7	Oh,
0:47.2	Hold life off like a soggy band-aid that's been on too long.
0:51.2	This is we have concerns.
0:52.4	Hi, Jeff.
0:52.8	I'm Anthony Coveoni.
0:54.1	Hello, concerned citizens.
0:56.6	Something that's been on everybody's minds for the last.
1:00.5	Well, gosh, I'd say almost exactly three weeks would be fake news.
1:05.3	Yeah, fake news.
1:06.6	The proliferation of disinformation on the internet.
1:11.0	That was a Gilbert and Sullivan song.
1:13.4	The proliferation of disinformation.
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