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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #60 on: December 24, 2019, 11:29:27 PM »
Correct, in cases where we have God forbid anti Semitec incidents, we need to inform the public of such threats.

Also on the other end of the spectrum it's critical that we don't take isolated incidents and make it like they are full blown anti simetic attacks and scare everybody.

And so we have the same situation regarding drug overdoses and suicide that are often swept under the rug and ignored and the mental health issues in the community.

The need for individual and the family in the communities privacies are paramount.


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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #61 on: December 24, 2019, 11:31:14 PM »
Gossip has no place whatsoever. But also there is genuine concern and fear in these circumstances and these trying times.

As others mentioned, jersey City.


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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #62 on: December 25, 2019, 12:26:00 PM »
Sorry but we can’t have it both ways. Social media has turned us into something less than human beings. When what I ate in which restaurant and my latest vacation pics with the wife and or kids becomes everyone else’s business( including on DDF), I have taken what used to be a reshus hayachid, my private life, and deliberately turned it into a reshus harabim. And that creates a sense of entitlement- people feel that they have a right to know what is going on in a reshus harabim. We have taken מה טובו אהליך יעקב, the concept of privacy in our homes and lives that Klal Yisrael once excelled in and discarded it for social media, and the secular concept of putting everything out there in the reshus harabim. Well, that’s what people do in a reshus harabim. They rubberneck.

We are definitely doing it to ourselves. It’s hard to imagine that 15 years ago the world was a place of human interaction and expectation of privacy. The next generation will end up where China is now. A billion people glued to phones and social media with nary a shred of humanity left. When someone is mortally wounded everyone takes out the phones instead of going to help.

The farfrumt guys without smartphones will be the only ones left with their humanity still intact...

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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #63 on: December 25, 2019, 12:57:28 PM »


We are definitely doing it to ourselves. It’s hard to imagine that 15 years ago the world was a place of human interaction and expectation of privacy. The next generation will end up where China is now. A billion people glued to phones and social media with nary a shred of humanity left. When someone is mortally wounded everyone takes out the phones instead of going to help.

The farfrumt guys without smartphones will be the only ones left with their humanity still intact...

Yeah because there are no problems in the "farfumpt" community.

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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #64 on: December 25, 2019, 01:10:33 PM »

Yeah because there are no problems in the "farfumpt" community.
Where did he say that? He was talking about 1 issue.

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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #65 on: December 25, 2019, 01:56:18 PM »

Yeah because there are no problems in the "farfumpt" community.

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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #66 on: December 25, 2019, 02:31:23 PM »
There's a huge race by the various frum 'news' outlets to get the scoop. In the process they trample on basic human dignity and decency. And this was an issue long before jersey city.

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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #67 on: December 25, 2019, 02:35:17 PM »
When I had my accident a few weeks ago, there were so many stories going around whatsapp I couldn't keep track of them.

It was, shall we say, interesting to find out from a fwd that I had gotten arrested for driving with a suspended license.
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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #68 on: December 25, 2019, 03:18:33 PM »
When I had my accident a few weeks ago, there were so many stories going around whatsapp I couldn't keep track of them.

It was, shall we say, interesting to find out from a fwd that I had gotten arrested for driving with a suspended license.
Well next time don't be transporting drugs in your stolen vehicle while driving drunk! ;D  (source: WA spewage/fake news sites/Your neighbors brothers sisters wife)
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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #69 on: December 25, 2019, 03:33:42 PM »

Yeah because there are no problems in the "farfumpt" community.
You placed all people without smartphones in one basket and you bash it, good job!

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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #70 on: December 25, 2019, 04:23:59 PM »
I'm so sorry.

But pretty sure when the first words "fake News" was said, we all thought that nobody was shot and killed.

I get it that the details are grossly wrong. Journalism at it's worst. But Fake news ? no way !

in light of Jersey City a fellow chasidic jew was shot killed. True story ! Sad and scary.

Again BDE, and sorry.
i'm also not sure why this is earning #fakeNews ?

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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #71 on: December 25, 2019, 04:39:15 PM »
i agree in general that its more then painful & crazy how wrong ppl can be trying to be the first & best detailed so they're so careless, like by the JCshooting when ppl spread shtisem about gold & fr"m etc. or that mrs. ferancz is dead before even 1 of the police entered the grocery, but i don't see in this case it should be totally fake news ?                                         
 @Dan which part of @KollelNiyes's msg. have you found incorrect he didn't mentioned it as a #HateCrime like others did,   that he wrote "a chabad ruv"?

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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #72 on: December 25, 2019, 04:47:25 PM »
i agree in general that its more then painful & crazy how wrong ppl can be trying to be the first & best detailed so they're so careless, like by the JCshooting when ppl spread shtisem about gold & fr"m etc. or that mrs. ferancz is dead before even 1 of the police entered the grocery, but i don't see in this case it should be totally fake news ?                                         
 @Dan which part of @KollelNiyes's msg. have you found incorrect he didn't mentioned it as a #HateCrime like others did,   that he wrote "a chabad ruv"?
https://twitter.com/mottiseligson/status/1209559419513712642


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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #73 on: December 25, 2019, 04:49:17 PM »
i'm also not sure why this is earning #fakeNews ?
                                     
 @Dan which part of @KollelNiyes's msg. have you found incorrect
6 factual errors in this one tweet. SICK!

https://twitter.com/KollelNiyes/status/1209579164057120768

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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #74 on: December 25, 2019, 07:35:41 PM »
The Jewish #ExtremeFakeNews sites, Whatsapp groups, and social media accounts are just VILE and SHAMEFUL!
"VILE" would be accurate for some of the ones I seen.
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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #76 on: December 26, 2019, 07:47:32 AM »
Would have been better to just give the basics of what happened to try and stop all the rumors instead of just saying #fakenews?
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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #77 on: December 26, 2019, 02:20:06 PM »
looks like its to painful

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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #78 on: December 26, 2019, 02:26:26 PM »
Would have been better to just give the basics of what happened to try and stop all the rumors instead of just saying #fakenews?
I've been broken for 3 days over it. But what difference will the details be for a stranger?
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Re: Spreading Fake News Via Whatsapp and Social Media
« Reply #79 on: December 26, 2019, 02:40:21 PM »
Would have been better to just give the basics of what happened to try and stop all the rumors instead of just saying #fakenews?

Besides #FakeNews it's a bad idea to spread stories fast for other reasons. There have been a few instances where social media spread word of a story, and even getting the story straight, it meant that children, close relatives and friends found out about a tragedy on blogs and whatsapp. That is a source for needless extra pain and suffering for people who are already going to have to ensure the unimaginable.