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| The rise of left-wing, anti-Trump fake news |
| 2017-04-17 |
| [BBC] Since the US election presidential race, fact checking websites report what seems like an increase in anti-Trump, 'liberal fake news'. The fact-checking site Snopes told BBC Trending radio that in the past week, for example, they have debunked many more anti-Republican party stories than pro-Republican ones. One example of an incorrect story is the unflattering, digitally-manipulated image, which suggested that US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... had diarrhoea during a recent golf outing. Another falsely suggested that President Trump profited from the US missile strikes in Syria It's hard to gather definitive data on the political bias in fake news stories, so the evidence for a rise in 'liberal fake news' is essentially anecdotal. But a recent study did effectively debunk the stereotype that fake news tends to be shared more by uneducated people or those with right-leaning politics, as compared to other groups. "Fascinating and frightening" "It [fake news] affects both the right and the left. It affects educated and uneducated. So the stereotypes of it being simply right-wing and simply uneducated are 100% not true," says Jeff Green, who is the CEO of Trade Desk, an internet advertising company that was recently commissioned by American TV channel CBS to investigate who is reading and sharing fake news online. His company did this by initially putting out two fake news stories - one from the left which falsely stated police had raided a protestors camp at Standing Rock and burnt it down, and the other from a right-wing website about false claims there was a congressional plot to oust Donald Trump. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Dan Rather was curiously unavailable for comment. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-04-17 16:35 |
| #4 recently commissioned by American TV channel CBS to investigate who is reading and sharing fake news online. Did he start with the CBS news room? That's a place where fake news starts and is spread. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-04-17 08:23 |
| #3 Cause the NI has had to deal with libel suits more often. The whole judicial construct of two classes of private and public in libel cases smacks against the 'equal before the law' standing of the 14th Amendment. Eliminate it and you'll see a change in behavior. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-04-17 07:52 |
| #2 Ex claims NI are the only newspaper left doing investigative journalism. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-04-17 03:05 |
| #1 It's rare, but I sometimes turn to the National Enquirer for verification. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-04-17 00:49 |