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AreWeSure ago

This is horseshit. There are dozens of fake news sites out there that do no reporting and simply make up their "news stories" and this is different from conservative news sites or opinion journalism.

Here's one example of how it works.

https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/us/fake-news-hillary-clinton-cameron-harris.amp.html?client=ms-android-sprint-us

Nana66 ago

Brock bought Blue Nation Review just to put out propaganda for Hillary. Last I checked it died around when the primary was over and he had to buy other ones because the cat was out of the bag.

Watcher_Down ago

Nana66 ago

Yup.

Tanngrisnir ago

The Propornot site listed sites like lewrockwell, zerohedge and ronpaulreport as fake news because of claims of clickbait and misleading headlines. The term is abused so that it can basically mean "any news source or blog I don't like". Or course Buzzfeed was all over these claims despite their being more guilty of clickbaity headlines than anyone. The term has come to be used against anyone the mainstream media considers not to be towing the party line. If it was just directed against cheap Macedonian websites no one would care. But it isn't. It is a war effort against alternative media.

Jem777 ago

Exactly. It should not matter who wins an election the government does not in the US get to censor speech. That is what separates us from others. We can debate on ideas. Now we know the congress was willing to write into law language that could impact free speech. This at a time when the population was being told so much information from MSM that we now know was blatantly False and the internet sites were literally scrubbed of content. Serious journalists and concerned citizens went from forum to forum to get the truth. Zuckerberg started saying "Fake News" the same day Obama did... then scrubbing the sites. Then the Pope said likened "Fake News" to sin involving excrement. Find the video.

Why would these people, media, Hollywood go to such extreme lengths? To pull off the biggest cover up of all time. They each chose along the way to keep going knowing this was all under the surface. The trafficking of children and arms, oil, money& organs. They have lied and are exposed. Why are they fighting and rioting still? They do not want anyone to look at this reality.

TheOA ago

Satire news has been around since News itself.. Trolling is in human nature, that's undeniable. Are you claiming all of the sudden this thing called "Fake News" is a real problem? All of the sudden, you would justify stripping us of absolute free speech in the most used online environments? What about freedom to view what ever it is you'd like.... So you're telling me Fake news is such a real problem that we need national anti-propaganda institutions that don't only discern real news & 'fact check', but actually regulate your news feed and Google searches... So you're totally fine with FaceBook & Google openly admitting to going China on you? Either you haven't done the research, or you have and your just shilling.

Tanngrisnir ago

My favorite was about bat-people living on the moon and having kinky free love sexual mores. Published in a newspaper in 1835. http://www.science20.com/science_20/bat_people_moon_great_moment_19th_century_science_journalism-82004

AreWeSure ago

The more pernicious fake news sites have several real stories from a source like the AP and then will put in their own completely made up articles

Jem777 ago

The AP is not real. These are all Mostly CIA