A fake news story on a fake news website.
Fake news (fl. 2016- ) is news that is untrue or misleading or just plain made up. Sometimes it is meant for laughs (The Onion), sometimes it is Macedonian students, say, trying to cash in on the Internet’s clickbait economy.
Facebook: For the past three months (since August 2016), the top 20 fake news stories on Facebook were getting more shares, reactions and comments than the top 20 real news stories! Most of the fake news favoured Donald Trump, then running for US president, while most of the true news stories favoured Hillary Clinton, who ran against him.
Examples:
Fake:
“Pope Francis shocks world, endorses Donald Trump for president”
“FBI agent suspected in Hillary email leaks found dead in apartment in murder-suicide”
Real:
“Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling”
“I ran the CIA. Now I’m endorsing Hillary Clinton”
Clickbait economy: The Internet currently favours news stories that get people to click on them, whether they are true or not. The two big reasons for this are Google and Facebook. Google helps by turning clicks into cold hard cash through its advertising. Facebook does it by pushing stories that its computer algorithms say are “trending”, regardless of their truth. In the US, 44% get their news from Facebook.
Melissa Zimdars, an assistant professor of media studies at Merrimack College, has started putting together a list of websites that are “False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical ‘News’ Sources”. Here is a bit of her list:
- Fake or regularly misleading: InfoWars, DCGazette.com.
- Sometimes misleading: Breitbart News, Blue Nation Review.
- Clickbait-y: Addicting Info, Red State, Breitbart News, Twitchy, Blue Nation Review, Occupy Democrats, The Free Thought Project.
- Satirical: The Onion, ChristWire.org, Borowitz Report (New Yorker), ClickHole, Cap News, Real News Right Now, Call the Cops, World News Daily Report.
- Other: Before It’s News, IJR, Inquistr, Lew Rockwell, The Blaze, The Daily Sheeple, World Net Daily, Project Veritas, Daily Wire.
Separately she lists:
- Sometimes hyperbolic: Huffington Post, Fox News, Daily Kos.
- Trustworthy but biased: New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Atlantic, NPR.
Big Media is biased. It mainly comes out in what they choose (not) to report (filtering). On the other hand, they can afford professional journalists, fact checkers and have a fear of libel laws.
Red flags of questionable news sites:
- Names that end in “lo”, like Newslo.
- Domain names that end in “.com.co”, like abcnews.com.co (pictured above).
- Stories that get you really angry.
- Bad web design.
- Use of ALL CAPS.
- Odd domain names.
- No author or source given.
Tips:
- Read widely from a broad range of news outlets to avoid the bias of
any single one. - Learn to separate fact from opinion. Blogs, even at trusted news outlets, are generally not fact-checked.
- If a story gets you really angry, google it to see who else, if anyone, is reporting it. It could well be fake, designed to get you angry enough to spread it.
- See what Snopes, RationalWiki, Fake News Watch and the Wikipedia say about a particular website. Check the website’s “About Us” page.
– Abagond, 2016.
Update (November 23rd): Added RationalWiki and Fake News Watch as debunking websites.
Sources: mainly Melissa Zimdars, Vox.
See also:
- debunking websites:
- the press
- Russian trolls
- Internet
- media diet
- The Vast Talking Machine
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Abagond 
I fell for the story that Trump once said if he would run for president then as a Republican, because they believe everything.
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“Fake news (fl. 2016- ) is news that is untrue or misleading or just plain made up. Sometimes it is meant for laughs (The Onion), sometimes it is Macedonian students, say, trying to cash in on the Internet’s clickbait economy.”
Or Jefe writing nonsense about HK and the PRC. His claim that HK could be self-sufficient in water was especially absurd, yet you, Abagond, let him “prattle” on.
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Thank you for speaking up against this. Today I posted some information on my facebook about a huckster in Phoenix by the name of Paul Horner, who was responsible for posting hundreds of fake news site articles over the past several months that not only affected this election but also played victims of heinous crimes (for example, the hate crime in Orlando), and who seems to be hubristically unconcerned for the damage he may have done, and proud of the fact that he made lots of money. Honestly, this is not a polite comment, but I hope the guy dies in a hotel fire.
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Yay, how to corroborate something! I guess wnd.com belongs in other because of the christian ‘end times’ or ‘original alt right’ slant!
A quick litmus test is to cut and paste the headline in question and google it. If copying text is disabled that should tell u something right there.
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Yes LoM some of us even read the whole article.
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I can’t help but wonder… If it weren’t for that information vacuum, would people be so hungry for “alternative news” & “conspiracy theories” or would those things have remained on the fringes with the tinfoil hat crowd?
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My fb page is a news feed i show my bias by source and topic. I am guilty of sharing right away sometimes. And my youtube feed ascwell i should have my own station
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The only fake news I read during the campaign has been straight from the horse’s mouth. The mainstream media sold us all the lie how Clinton was going to “win by a landslide” leading up to election day. And who knows how much that contributed to her lower than expected turnout rates.
And the leaked emails showed the MSM was in bed with Clinton during the campaign, forewarning her of imminent news stories they were writing, coordinating attacks against her opponent, letting her campaign manager approve articles before publishing, and even letting her campaign staffers submit stories themselves.
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Some more fake news sites: http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/Fake-News/tp/A-Guide-to-Fake-News-Websites.htm
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I was surprised to see European coverage of President Obama’s visit to Berlin. He was treated both with respect as a statesman and with affection as a colleague who is going to be missed.
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The most dangerous kind of fake news? Mainstream news. Causes a lot of mayhem as for example in the Hillary fiasco.
“The discredited mainstream media who have spread propaganda and lies causing the needless death and suffering of millions are now arrogantly trying to censor the alternative media who are working to expose their lies and save lives.”
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/11/63367.html
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Your whole list a lefty biased hit job. People are sick of that crapola. More echo chambers for you I guess. Be back next year.
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i felt kind of bad for WND (world net daily) because they were gong through a while certification process, about more ‘original content’ than syndicated articles, then they got a white house press pass, and now have been passed by
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@ Dave
So what would you say are some trustworthy non-lefty news sites?
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. Be back next year.
Where are you going, on vacation or jail?
These fake news sites are probably created to foment distrust of the media. Easier to control the populace. People in general, are too lazy or stupid to cross-reference their sources when reading, listening to the news. This fake dissemination of the news is very effective from a propagandistic angle regardless of the political slant.
On a lighter note, I’m in the wrong line of work:
http://www.salon.com/2016/11/17/people-are-definitely-dumber-thanks-to-facebook-a-viral-fake-news-writer-is-making-10000-a-month/
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/21/i-ve-been-making-viral-fake-news-for-the-last-six-months-it-s-way-too-easy-to-dupe-the-right-on-the-internet.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon
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@Herneith
“People in general, are too lazy or stupid to cross-reference their sources when reading, listening to the news.”
That’s the thing… right now, it’s fairly easy and people don’t have the time/energy/willingness to triple-check everything they read. They’re comfortable that if what they read matches their perception, then it “rings true” enough for them.
Now, that the general public is catching on to how much profit there is in fake news, just think how much worse it will be when you google a ridiculous concept and find hundreds of “corroborating sources”…
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I reiterate my earlier statement about the damage legitimate news sources cause(d) by filtering and tailoring their news to the point that fake news and misinformation has gained a foothold in the resulting information vacuum. The irony of the situation being that people that recognized biased messaging wound up consuming complete falsehoods in their quest for “the whole story”… Fox hit on this with “Fair & Balanced”. They were neither fair nor balanced, but when consumed opposite left-leaning networks, it seemed to tell the other side of the story. What’s the saying, “There’s 3 sides to every story with the truth being the one in the middle?” That kinda worked until the (alt)-right figured out that if they stretch their side far enough, the “middle” winds up landing on their side… AND, there’s money to be made. So, it’s only gonna get more difficult to discern truth… even for those that hunger for it. Perceived truths & confirmation bias will win the day and the messages that are delivered the loudest will be normalized.
P.S. Yeah, yeah, I know… I’m feeling a bit pessimistic lately.
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Ok Abagond.. We Are Change is one that is pretty good. They use investigative reporters, and are very unbiased, as they came down pretty hard on the Bush administration, as well as Obama’s. For good reason in both cases.
Project Veritas got video of people bragging that were connected loosely with the dnc, and ultimately the Clinton administration, that people were paid $1500 to disrupt Trump rallies. No one debunked that. People were fired over it. So.. the one that was debunked was a made up story of someone getting $3500 to do the same, and somehow that dulled the Verification of Veritas unfairly imo.
Infowars are more accurate than cnn. Sorry to say but guys like Paul Joseph Watson and yes even Alex Jones are independent media legends. Where Alex gets into trouble, is not with facts, it’s when he speculates what may be occuring secretly with wild opinions , and theories. But I hate to tell you , that’s what the media does everyday in regards to speculating whether or not Trump will be dishonest with his business interests. They really don’t know, and are giving speculative opinions.
Rand and Ron Paul. Two elected officials that will give it to you straight.
Judge Andrew Napolitano. Sometimes a guest, on fox, the Judge often gives his take on current events on his blog.
Just a few. But Snopes isn’t God btw. Maybe do some of your own fact checking .
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(https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=XHoCy7frNac) Here in the link is Paully himself explaining where you got that list of all conservative sites for the most part. Its from a bigoted leftist sjw. Bigoted against those who don’t share the shade of her ideology. You see today’s “liberals” are no longer liberal. They are selective authoritarians. They only value freedom of expression and thought, if it’s theirs, or from those they agree with.
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@ Herneith
Re: Facebook Viral Fake news.
Looking at Fox News and listening to Hate Radio for years will turn anyone’s mind to mush.
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This post focuses on fake news in the West, or particular in the USA.
I find it more disturbing when fake news forms a large part of state sanctioned media. This is not about making something click-bait-y.
Top 5 Blunders by Chinese State-Run Media | China Uncensored
(https://youtu.be/AFFUZWakA_k)
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@ Dave
Thank you.
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Snopes, PolitiFact and RationalWiki are my Bibles.
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@ jefe
LOL. I thought Xinhua had it more together than that.
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@Abagond,
Have you not seen the Xinhua screen in New York’s Times Square? They are broadcasting fake news 24/7.
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scmp it is its more towards HK i think
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Update: Added RationalWiki and Fake News Watch as debunking websites.
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@ jefe
I did not notice the Xinhua screen. Yikes!
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@V8driver
SCMP was bought by the Alibaba group in Dec 2015. Its news coverage is still actually not too bad, but their Op-ed’s are nakedly supportive of Beijing.
We can’t go too far about what has happened to the media in HK in the past few years, that will open a whole new can of worms.
@Abagond,
During my last trip to China someone mentioned to me about how foreigners interfere in China’s domestic affairs, parroting the foreign affairs spokesperson. I told them that Xinhua has a screen in New York’s Times Square, the nation’s busiest intersection and crossroads of the world, broadcasting 24/7, with information bolstering China’s narrative yet highly critical of the USA. When China allows any USA govt sponsored media organization to erect a screen in Beijing’s TianAnmen Square or Shanghai’s Nanjing East Road and broadcast 24/7 in Mandarin showing information supporting the greatness of the USA and severely criticizing China in unfettered view of tens of millions daily, then maybe I can accept the argument.
However, you just demonstrated that something has been broadcasting 24/7 for 5 years and you have walked by and never noticed. The USA has no problem with that. It is competing with all the other fake news around.
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Personally, I don’t allow others to tell me what to think, read or which sites to visit. It’s too much like mind control and censorship. These gatekeepers are watching the “fake” sites, but who watches the watchers?
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Wow maybe i cn write a 205 level class on programmatic corroboration and searching in so forth maybe it will come out better tha my history of cocaine in america pt i theres a reason for everything!
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I’ve been a reader of this blog for about four years now and I have never been moved to comment on any of the amazing articles until now. It is not this specific article that I am commenting on, it is the wealth of knowledge present in both the articles written and the comments made by regulars. It is 6:57pm on November 26, 2016 and I have been reading this blog since 6am this morning. Why? I really can’t pinpoint an exact reason except that my mind gravitates more and more each year to things that feed my Black woman soul, worth, understanding of the institutionalized racist country in which I have been born into and I often spend alot of time in between my classes, research and work (I am working towards a MSc in infectious disease and molecular immunology) wondering how we as Americans of African Ancestry (I hate personally being called African American, perfer Black but AAA is more correct) can eject ourselves from the shitty situation we have historically found ourselves in in America no matter our level of education, social status or how well we conform to what the white patriarchy says it requires of us. I’m tired…I’m so thoroughly tired of America that I can’t even formulate a sentence to describe all of what I am tired of and I am in my early 30s. Born in TX and having grown up between TX and OK I have seen KKK rallies and marches, had my locker bombed at 15 because I was to be the first black valedictorian of the BS rural white school I went to while living with an aunt who was the local small town doctor. In elementary school, I lived with my grandparents and was bused across town to the white school in Lubbock, TX in the early 80s and keenly remember the racism of teachers and white students. I am damn tired and have recently decided to expate for the number one reason that I have traveled alot over the years and while I know that racism exists the world over and that colonialism has touched ever corner of the planet, there are a great many places where WE are treated with human dignity and respect (I can’t/won’t speak for everyone, only my travel experiences). While I desperately want to see my community–the American Black community really have the tools to truly spread our wings and fly, I no longer believe that to be possible on a massive scale because America is an inherently racist country with racist policies that rot it at the foundational level. Then comes along the shitgibbon of a Cheeto with poodle hair, Trump. I was not in the least surprised as many were and understood full well why and how he got elected. I am scared for my fellow minorities and I am truly afraid of what is to come for all of us who cannot hide behind white skins even though we are not white. Where I was planning on starting my second year, I am putting in applications to schools overseas for the fall and will be spending January until September 2017 working my ass off to pad my savings even more so I can speed up my escape from what I feel is the coming of Satan’s reign of Hell on Earth. My bones say that something nasty and evil to the core is coming and the smart grandfather, Siegfried did in Vienna in the 1930s http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/217831/what-to-do-about-trump?utm_term=What+to+Do+About+Trump%3F+The+Same+Thing+My+Grandfather+Did+in+1930s+Vienna.&utm_content=nov2016&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=post I am getting out while I still can!
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@Non Compos Mentis
You decided to expatriate yourself?
Many commenters on this blog have expressed a desire, or at least a whim to expatriate, but some seem to think that only persons with a certain racial or ethnic background can do that if they choose.
Do you think that it takes a certain personal experience to choose that option, a mental attitude, or do you think that certain POC have that option more than others based on race?
Finally, in your expatriation phase, are you still in a “honeymoon” period, or have you found other things in your new environment that are equally if not more distasteful and disturbing and are there any things that you miss from the experience in Texas and Oklahoma?
I got fed up with the USA and left over 20 years ago, but I am also having thoughts about whether it might be time to go back, trying to evaluate which prospects are the least hopeless.
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Go where the money is!
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@jefe My decision to expate is an old one that I have felt even at a very young age (I have wanted to live outside the U.S. since is was 12). I have never felt at home in the U.S. and have traveled to a great many cities both east and west coasts looking for a place that suits me. While I do love cities like Portland, San Francisco, San Diego and Seattle on the west and Boston and DC on the east I still am very strongly drawn to leave the U.S. I am currently looking at MSc and PhD programs in Germany, Norway, Belgium and The Nederlands but I would love to eventually settle in Portugal or Spain. If Latin America had more stable governments and research sectors I would head there because every time I travel to Latin American my soul is in heaven. I feel most at home in Afro-Latin countries. It is amazing to see people who look just like me and to be just another person but I am keenly aware that living there is far different than being there for a week or two. Hopefully, over the course of my future research career, I will have the opportunity to live and travel for work in a variety of places and can fulfill my nomadic lust.
I have always know that no matter one’s race, you can live wherever you want to live. I have a very multiracial/cultural/ethnic family. We have Latinos/Latinas, White, Black, Asian and Africans in my family and I grew up with seeing them every year in the summers, Thanksgiving and Xmas and have been a lifelong enjoyer of food and music from other cultures as well. I have one cousin who left the U.S. at 18 and rarely returns, two others are living in Ghana, another has just left for a month in Thailand and I have two elderly aunts who live in Europe–France and Germany to be exact. My grandfather was old enough (barely, he lied and said he was 18 when his was really 16 as he was the son of a sharecropper and wanted away from the vestiges of slavery in AR and LA) to fight in both Korea and WWII and brought back the experiences he had with him and always encouraged travel among his own children and they encouraged us to do so as well.
I do think that as an American no matter one’s race we hold the world’s most powerful passport. More and more young professional AAA persons are traveling and it is marvelous but few of us are willing to truly live abroad…shrug that might change as time goes on. From conversations I have had over the years with AAA persons there seems to be a fear–a fear of a racism far greater than that which America has dished out over our lives and far too many people have bought into the idea that the world is dangerous and that certain places are dangerous travel destinations. Not to be funny/crass but to Black people I always say this:
“The world is dangerous if you are a white male or female traveling to certain places that vehemently reject the idea of colonialism and westernization and I hear often they bring their ‘American sense of entitlement and narcissism’ with them. The world isn’t mad at Black people, it’s mad at and rejecting the white western colonists! Although we are just as American as whites, we are not seen in the stereotypical way they [whites] often are–especially by other POCs–until we give them reason to see us the same (typically what is called “Asshole American Behaviors”). As long as you travel with respect for the cultures/people/land you encounter, abide by their laws/dress codes and proceed with an open heart/mind and have a childlike curiosity about everything you will be accepted most times AS A HUMAN BEING. Know that racism is everywhere and most of that is the fault of colonialism and some of it (increasingly so) is the fault of Black American’s lack of control (desire to?) over our images that get promulgated to the rest of the world. Also beware that you can unwittingly take your Black American baggage and unload it on someone in a foreign land mistaking curiosity for racism but also don’t be afraid to call racism when you see it.”
For those that are wondering, the places I feel and am treated the most human are (not in any particular order): Germany, France, Belgium, Norway, The Nederlands, Spain, Puerto Rico, Belize, Mexico City, Guatemala, American/British/Dutch caribbean islands, Argentina. Ironically I feel the safest in Europe where I am surrounded by whites, but understand that they are VERY DIFFERENT than American whites. Hell, I should more correctly say that “White” in my mind is now just as American as “Black” in the sense of the baggage and truths that come with each term. Europeans are very well educated on historical truth and the tragedy that colonialism has wrecked around the world. In fact, many countries/municipalities have quitely paid reparations in a way for the things that have done to persons of African descent (my good friend’s mother in Holland calls it the Dutch guilt or Dutch stain). Furthermore, don’t believe the American hype about the Muslim/Middle Eastern/African refugees either. Yes, those people are running from war and a few bad apples can spoil the image of an entire race (rolls eyes…don’t we Black folks know), but they are some of the friendliest, warmest people if you take the time to approach them and their culture with respect. Their food is also amazing too!
I haven’t left the U.S. yet. I live in Atlanta, GA and when I travel I do not stay in hotels, I usually either stay with a friend in the country, Couchsurf for shorter stays, or rent an apartment in a neighborhood when I am abroad for 2-6 weeks. The longest I was away was in 2014 when I travel to Norway and was a project manager for a short contract I got through a friend at the Kongsberg auto plant. What I found disturbing came not from the Norwegians but the Korean and Chinese tourists. Because I was often dressed well (translation: like everyone else) and am a darkskinned woman, they assumed I was a prostitute. Well, turns out that many of the African women who are not with other African men, lack children, have Euro looking hair/weaves/wigs, are not in some sort of traditional dress OR have an white husband (interracial marriages are HUGE in Europe) it was assumed you were a prostitute by these particular Asians–maybe others thought it too but prostitution is legal in many places in Europe so no one bats an eye. They would scrunch and contort their faces, one lady spit on the ground when I passed and this would happen if even more if I were with my guy friend (white guy) alone rather than in a group. It was a bartender who finally explained it to us. I had no feelings about it, I just chalked it up to their personal ignorance and went about my life while there.
In France, the French are rude (as many Americans attest) but they are rude because of a nationlistic pride in everything French. They actually warm right up if you express interest in their city/country, don’t act like a tourist ass and actually learn a few French words and sentences. I think all cultures can respect a person who is honestly trying to learn, understand and who’s heart is in the right place.
I would say however, I had to learn to not be in my feelings when traveling–meaning that I am darkskinned and am always (even in the U.S.) mistaken for being African or some sort of Afro-latina (shrug) and quickly found out that until I opened my mouth, they thought I was African from Africa. There are a whole different set of stereotypes (some truths) that come with Africans in Europe most of which any American Black person would trade (except the prostitute one), they are still f*cked up to varying degrees but most aren’t. There was never the assumption that I was uneducated, lazy, had kids out of wedlock, was on welfare, lived in teh ghetto, didn’t know my dad, etc. as in America. Some assumed I was a prostitute (Asians), most figured I was either in IT or some STEM field, married with kids and lived with a large extended family, was middle class, had both parents, but was brought up to be demure, chaste and live by men’s rule according to European ideas about well-to-do Africans. I know this because I would ask once the suprised look would cross someone’s face once they saw I was a Black American.
I didn’t mean to go into expectional detail but I hope this gives an idea of where I am coming from and my reasons why.
@Herneith: I am definitely looking to “follow the money” and especially for my field of study, Germany tops my list!
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https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=%22fake%20news%22
Infer what you wish from that graph of interest vs time.
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Bombshell!!! Paul Craig Roberts, purveyor of fake news, exposed as a Russian spy!!!
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/11/28/dear-president-putin/
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the funny thing is that putin actually replied through intermediaries ‘I await your application for citizenship’ or something to that effect.
bwaaahahahaha
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@nomad
+1000. That Washington Post story that referenced ProporNot’s list was one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever read from them. It really makes you lose all trust in our institutional stalwarts of journalism.
And just look at one of the lies they were forced to “correct”:
“Correction: A previously published version of this story incorrectly stated that Russian information service RT had used the “#CrookedHillary” hastag pushed by then-Republican candidate Donald Trump. In fact, while another Russian information service Sputnik did use this hashtag, RT did not.”
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list of leftist fake news sites. BE WARNED. DO NOT GO TO ANY OF THESE SITES!
I think big brother might be watching
opednews.com
paulcraigroberts.org
consortiumnews.com
counterpunch.org
globalresearch.ca
truth-out.org
greanvillepost.com
truthdig.com
informationclearinghouse.info
http://www.voltairenet.org/en
moonofalabama.org
nakedcapitalism.com
zerohedge.com
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The Intercept posted an indepth article about the website PropOrNot with it’s baseless allegations against independent news websites. The article, Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group discusses at length how a group of anonymous journalists and researchers is attempting to smear sites on the ideological Left (Black Agenda Report) and Right (Drudge Report).
The Intercept pointed out the absurdity of this site’s designations of news outlets that are fronts for Russian propaganda:
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgracefully-promotes-a-mccarthyite-blacklist-from-a-new-hidden-and-very-shady-group/
A lot of Americans have been turning to independent or foreign sources for news because Establishment sources are so obviously compromised as propaganda outlets. This story just confirms the need to support independent news outlets.
Propaganda is not subtle anymore, it is in your face a la 1984.
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” recommends that readers rely solely on establishment-friendly publications like NPR, the BBC, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, BuzzFeed, and VICE”
no wonder I’m so uninformed and misguided. i don’t read these publications
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Think twice before turning to Xinhua news to get real news. Some foreign news can be even more fake than US establishment sources.
Chinese Propaganda in Times Square!
(https://youtu.be/BZRz9-lJ7gI)
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5 Reasons United States in midst of a Coup d’état, Right Now! #USCoup #WikiLeaks
(https://youtu.be/crdVluPQ2L4)
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Why don’t media now claim Hillary’s ill-health was fake news?
“In the echo chamber of bouncing stories that makes up the fake consensus generated by big media, that item is verboten.
Russia did it? Putin cost Hillary the election? James Comey cost her the election? Julian Assange cost her the election? Fake news in general did her in? Fine. No problem. Those items are on the list of talking points.
But ill health? Front and center? No. That’s out of bounds.”
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/12/24/why-dont-media-now-claim-hillarys-ill-health-was-fake-news/
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How the Grinch stole our freedom of speech.
Under cover of Christmas, the snake in the White House strangles our freedom of speech using the ‘fake news’ pretext.
https://geopolitics.co/2016/12/26/obama-signs-portman-murphy-kill-alt-media-bill-into-law-under-xmas-cover/
You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
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“Rather than focus its journalistic energy on chronicling the economic insecurity plaguing so many of our fellow Americans, the billionaire-owned corporate media appears entirely obsessed with chattering endlessly about Russia conspiracy theories and domestic coup plots. Instead of looking in the mirror and admitting how its countless errors and propaganda pushing led to multiple humanitarian disasters over the last couple of decades, the oligarch-owned mainstream media insist upon a narrative that Trump the individual is at the root of our problems, as opposed to an entrenched executive branch with excessive power.
This is because the mainstream media isn’t actually concerned about our cancerous, systemic metastasizing statism, it merely doesn’t want Trump in charge of it. I, on the other hand, want to dismantle that unconstitutional state entirely and transfer power to the American people where it belongs — self-government.
Does anyone actually think for a second the media would be this adversarial if Hillary won?”
http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Billionaire-Owned%2C_Corporate_Media_Is_As_Worthless_As_Ever/56938/0/38/38/Y/M.html
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Is the corporate media actually talking about domestic coup plots? ‘Cause I learned about it in the alt media. Deep state’s orchestrated attacks on Trump and Obama’s unprecedented efforts to undermine the new administration. No exiting president has ever done that before. I think the deep state really wanted to assassinate Trump. They seemed to have been setting him up for it before the inauguration, but decided it was too high profile and likely to start a civil war. They decided to undermine him instead and remove him from office through deceit, engineering a regime change here as they have done so many times abroad to remove heads of state they didn’t like. An attempted coup is happening, but I didn’t think MSM was covering it.
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“Deep state’s orchestrated attacks on Trump and Obama’s unprecedented efforts to undermine the new administration. No exiting president has ever done that before. ”
“An attempted coup is happening, but I didn’t think MSM was covering it.”
The oligarch owned MSM wouldn’t touch that subject with a 1K mile long pole! Hence Obomber’s rendering alternative/independently owned news site on the web as illegal via stealth legislation. How soon they’ll begin to enforce this NEW law (unless it’s overturned) remains to be seen
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huh…
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40021373
“Fox News has retracted a report about a US Democratic party employee whose murder last year has fuelled a right-wing conspiracy theory.”
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/andrew-feinberg-quits-sputnik-russia-news-agency-white-house-correspondent-a7758921.html
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@ Solitaire
Wow, just as I suspected – about Sputnik being propaganda and Seth Rich being a propaganda story.
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@ Abagond
Tisk, tisk. Obviously Andrew Feinberg has gone over to the Dark Side, where there’s cookies and kool-aid. He must have been brainwashed by the deep state. Or maybe he’s angry at not getting those bylines to further his career and burnish his image, so he’s sold out to the msm.
Anything except the possibility that he’s telling the truth as he saw it.
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More on Andrew Feinberg and Sputnik:
https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/fbi-document-cache-sheds-light-inner-workings-russias-u-s-news-propaganda-network-172317008.html
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