This is the latest in a recent series of posts from Neon Nettle. It had 40 up-votes before anyone down-voted it, or noticed that the central claim of the story had NO SOURCE.
The amount of times I've seen people post stories from this ALWAYS UN-SOURCED trash heap of a "news site" has me concerned that many of us might believe everything they've read from it.
I'm making this post as a public announcement, with hopes that next time someone will say something before a Neon Nettle post gets up-voted 40 times. Because this is starting to annoy the shit out of me.
Edit:
Another example:
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1967740 (this story cites Neon Nettle, who in turn cites NOTHING. It too was getting up-voted for a while before anyone caught it)
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pbvrocks ago
I posted that article and have posted others from Neon Nettle that I think are relevant to our investigation here. I am far from young and far from naive. I have also posted tweets from VictoryOfTheLight as again they seemed valid and relevant. I would think this forum is about a freedom of ideas and sharing information rather than pushing any "narrative"..but whatever...I am no advocate of Neon Nettle, but you are wrong about sourcing as that last article was sourced...
"Kremlin spokesman and Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, highlighted some of the "deliverables" for the meeting to a Moscow audience: "I proceed from the premise that Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump understand their national interests,""They want to overcome the current abnormality and start negotiating specific issues that affect bilateral relations, including business interests and the resolution of international problems.""The foundation of support for pedophilia within US politics is a global issue that must be eradicated.""This level of unethical corruption must be stopped, and we have the means expose it if the US Government is unwilling."
Sourced better than a WAPO or NYT article...
As a mod are you now the regulator of what journalistic integrity is? I'm just doing what I have always done and very PROUD of my history on this forum and what we have been able to accomplish together...just saw that Google was referencing a /pol/ article this am..so who is to say what sources are providing "real" or "fake" news..ya?
VieBleu ago
You can push back, for whatever reason. the simple truth is that anyone who spends time online knows to automatically disregard anything from neonnettle and sorcha fal at the very least. So if you just want dumb kids to take you seriously, then go right ahead and keep using them as a source. A better idea would be to use them as a lead, but find corroboration elsewhere and use that as a source - generally you won't find corroboration elsewhere. Neonnettle makes up fake sensationalist headlines and passes on unfounded rumors, like the FBI/CIA shootout in washington DC streets a few months ago.