The 'fake news' discussion thread

If the news is fake, why would someone need a pardon?

 

Lawsuit against Fox claims our horrible, f#ckface, waste-of-carbon Presi-dick colluded with Fox to push a fake story that Marc Rich was murdered because he leaked DNC emails to Wikileaks. Can an obstruction of justice case be made against a news organization?

The private investigator who investigated the unsolved murder of Democratic National Committee aide Seth Rich claimed in a lawsuit Tuesday that a Fox News reporter put words in his mouth to create a fake news story.

Rod Wheeler claims Fox’s Malia Zimmerman made up two quotes attributed to him in her May 16 story, which implied that Rich was killed for leaking internal DNC emails to Wikileaks.


Seth Rich, the DNC Staffer who was murdered in July of 2016. Metropolitan Police Department

“Mr. Wheeler — who was the only named source quoted in the article — did not make these statements,” the lawsuit states.

Wheeler, a former Washington, D.C. detective and sometime Fox News contributor, said he complained to Ed Butowsky, the Trump supporter who hired him to probe the killing of the DNC data analyst, and was told “that is the way the President wanted the article.”

“The motivation” for the Rich article was to divert attention away from the ongoing Russia investigation and “help put to bed speculation that President Trump colluded with Russia in an attempt to influence the outcome of the Presidential election,” Wheeler said in his federal lawsuit, which was filed in the Southern District of New York.

“Zimmerman, Butowsky and Fox had created fake news to advance President Trump’s agenda,” the suit states. “Mr. Wheeler was subsequently forced to correct the false record and, as a result, lost all credibility in the eyes of the public.”

Butowsky did not return a call from NBC News for comment. But in an interview with MSNBC contributor Gabriel Sherman, he dismissed the Wheeler lawsuit with an expletive and denied sharing the Fox article with the White House.

“I’ve never spoken to Trump in my life,” he said.

Asked about the allegations, Fox's president of news Jay Wallace released the following statement:

“The accusation that FoxNews.com published Malia Zimmerman’s story to help detract from coverage of the Russia collusion issue is completely erroneous. The retraction of this story is still being investigated internally and we have no evidence that Rod Wheeler was misquoted by Zimmerman. Additionally, FOX News vehemently denies the race discrimination claims in the lawsuit — the dispute between Zimmerman and Rod Wheeler had nothing to do with race.”

Fox News retracted Zimmerman’s story a week after it was published, but not before the report caught fire with Trump supporters, who called it proof that the Russians were not behind the DNC breach as U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies believe.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/seth-rich-case-fox-news-made-fake-news-protect-trump-n788541

 

Saw a Bloomberg article on Russian twitter bot preparation for 2018 campaign posted on another forum and in the thread was a Krebsonsecurity report on just how poor Twitter is handling the issue. What surprised me was that the bot network is now using twitter's own anti-bot algorithm to get those who report on the activity of Russian-bots temporarily suspended from Twitter.

With the latest news of Twitter basically showing zero growth last quarter I find it hard to believe they will actually tackle their bot problem.

 

Maybe he has a twin he doesn't know about?

 

We as a nation/people are no where near prepared for the s**t storm that is gonna hit us in 2018.

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and just to emphasis this is all being done to destroy the fabric and unity of this country:

 

This is a pretty easy slam dunk fake news piece. An article on Breitbart called "2,139 DACA Recipients Convicted or Accused of Crimes Against Americans"** originally used an image of MS-13 gang members .....a not so subtle allusion linking MS-13 to Dreamers.

It was changed after someone did a reverse Google image search and made the connection. Here is the original stock photo. This is not the first time they have done this. IIRC this was done earlier in the year plus an African-American actor (Wesley Snipes maybe??) was used to portray some "vicious thug" crime article.

905217614770823168 is not a valid tweet id

**Click on it if you want but it has been changed and it is a Breitbart article. You have been warned.

EDIT-Here is a more recent error of how Spanish police shut down a gang that shuttled immigrants in Morocco to Spain via jet skis. Note that Lukas Podolski now has a side hustle.


And the Cavs photo parade/Trump Rally



HMMM I'm sensing a pattern

 

After a "reporter" for America's tinfoil hat, fake news outlet Infowars calls a girl "young man", she lets him have it:

 

Cynicism and easy/only access to make living, two major driving forces behind the fake news machine.

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Not surprising a few producers claim to have paid for Ads on Facebook as well.

 

What may be the most surprising part of this bit of news is that it wasn't the focus of investigation before.

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Can you actually expect Reddit to to have any sort of moderating ability with fake new?

 

Honestly no, one it is a gigantic platform and two I don't think the company wants to. In my opinion that is beside the point though. I think it incredibly important that our elected officials investigate and make public how enemies abroad and at home are using platforms like Reddit to weaken, sow division, and try to destroy this country.

 

Just an emphasis that Russia's social media actions are not to the benefit of one party over another but rather to tear this country apart.

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couldn't help but chuckle at this little bit of news at the end of the article:

 

Fairly obvious by now that Twitters only concern are those of their shareholders, no matter how much damage is done to the country.

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Well, so much for "proof".
Sarah Sanders says no recording exists of Trump's call to fallen soldier's wife.pic.twitter.com/XQAS7DImib

— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly 🌸 (@AynRandPaulRyan) October 18, 2017

 

I was expecting either the actual recording or an edited recording and stuff to get blown up, but this is just WOW.

You can't check him in anyway.

 

Retired ‘Navy SEAL’ praising Trump on Fox News was a fake - FOX News has retracted the story today from 11 days ago.

 

If a tree falls in a forest, can a conservative "news" site blame Killary?

http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...ministration-doj-hillary-clinton-racketeering

Be forewarned that Andrew C. McCarthy has long opposed all things Obama, has argued that waterboarding is not torture and has said Medicare is a bigger scam than the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.

So abandon any thoughts of objectivity here. TBH I'm pretty sure this was covered more than a few times.

 

Snowflakes.