<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The lack of cynicism is a marked contrast to the undeserved Gore derision, but yes, they are both journalism failures..</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">joly</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:09 AM Dave Crocker <<a href="mailto:dhc@dcrocker.net">dhc@dcrocker.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 5/31/2019 3:44 PM, Vint Cerf wrote:<br>
> there is something trumpian about this - making a massively false claim <br>
> has kept ayyadurai's name visible in email storms among the cognoscenti <br>
> for several years now.<br>
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<br>
To me, what has been most impressive -- and frankly emblematic of the <br>
larger fake news phenomenon -- is how poorly many journalists have done <br>
their job at vetting the claims. Given that it takes maybe 2 minutes -- <br>
10 if one is diligent -- to establish the basic problem with his claims, <br>
this really is quite striking.<br>
<br>
d/<br>
<br>
ps. I believe the storms on lists like this are only due to the <br>
continuing public media and legal activities. A stray claim getting <br>
little public coverage would get a single storm here, perhaps, but even <br>
we show a damping effect after that.<br>
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<br>
-- <br>
Dave Crocker<br>
Brandenburg InternetWorking<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>---------------------------------------------------------------<br><span>Joly MacFie <span title="Call with Google Voice">218 565 9365</span> Skype:punkcast</span><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>-</div></div></div>