Interesting Links for 12-12-2023

[andrewducker]

1. US food producers caught price fixing

(tags:USA corruption food )

2. Eleven Scottish football arrests under new anti-pyrotechnic laws

(tags:Scotland fireworks football law )

3. London hospital cuts waiting lists with innovative system

(tags:healthcare surgery efficiency organisation )

4. How good are *you* at spotting fake news? (I got 16/16)

(tags:psychology fraud news viaPatrickHadfield )

Comments

[calimac]

Not only are you passing along really interesting news about what's happening in the UK (#2-3) but I'm also learning here about things I hadn't known about in the US (#1).

I also got all 16 right on the fake news quiz. I applied two simple principles: if they were present, I said the news was fake. And maybe I'll come back here later and say what those principles were. For now I don't want to spoil it for others.

[mountainkiss]

I would be very interested in these if and when it feels right to share.

[calimac]

Sure. Here they are:

1. If it unearths an elaborate conspiracy theory, it's fake.

2. If it insults liberals or leftists, it's fake.

[channelpenguin]

Yup. Pretty much my rules of thumb

[mountainkiss]

Useful to know thank you!

[darkoshi]

That was my reasoning too. I would have had a harder time deciding true/false if any of the headlines had insulted conservatives.

[andrewducker]

Which seemed off to me. Presumably there are such things!

[channelpenguin]

Maybe it's just too hard to invent stuff that's worse than conservatives actually do / have done?