It Never Happened
A New Industry Has Been Created
Did you know that there is a new industry that works in writing and publishing fake news? Did you know it is almost impossible to fact-check the real news? Did you know that these fake news stories are posted on fake websites that pose as newspapers and other mainstream media outlets?
This was written on a website that publishes fake news:
“The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right, publish blatantly or fictional stories and then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction.” - Jestin Coler, publisher of fake news sites
We wondered who was behind that story and why it was written. It appeared on a site that had the look and feel of a local newspaper. Denverguardian.com even had the local weather. But it had only one news story — the fake one.
NPR: We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned
Social Media Gobbles It Up
A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election. One that got a lot of traffic had this headline: "FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide." The story is completely false, but it was shared on Facebook more than half a million times.
Another story was meant to defame Steve Bannon, a new Trump advisor. After the article was published and distributed, a new one appeared. The damage had already been done. Who saw this? Who changed their minds? No one - as anti-Trumpers like Harry Reid continue to call him a “white-supremacist.” Reasonable people know this is not true, but the story has been told and therefore the lie must be true.
BREITBART: Anti-Defamation League Plays Victim After False Attack on Bannon
Disinformation: The New Normal Way to Destroy Opponents
Lying to the public is now considered “the right thing to do” if it can keep the faithful in line and donating dollars. The new normal is to fool the public into hating the opposition in order that they continue their adoration of the liars. The Marxist playbook working its spell over the indoctrinated masses.
Donald Trump supporters are angry with Pepsi -- over something that never happened.
The President-elect's supporters are threatening to boycott Pepsi (PEP) over fabricated statements circulating on social media. Twitter users, many citing debunked news articles, claim PepsiCo (PEP) CEO Indra Nooyi told Trump fans to "take their business elsewhere."
Sites designed to trick people, including Truthfeed and Gateway Pundit, published the fake quote while encouraging readers to stop buying Pepsi's products. Gateway Pundit also incorrectly claimed PepsiCo's stock plunged 5% because of the comment that Nooyi never actually made.
Nooyi never told Trump's supporters that Pepsi doesn't want their business and she even congratulated the president-elect on his victory. But she condemned the ugly rhetoric of the campaign.
"How dare we talk about women that way," Nooyi actually said at the New York Times Dealbook conference in response to a question referencing the election and domestic violence in the NFL. She also discussed the impact of the election on her employees.
CNN | Money: Trump supporters call to boycott Pepsi over comments the CEO never made
The Mainstream Media is a Willing Participant
The Newspapers and TV Networks pick up these stories and run with them. Journalists do not fact-check. They copy and paste. Read what I just copied and pasted to prove the point. You’ll find the link to the complete article below:
How much money can you bring in by making stuff up and putting it on the Internet? “I make like $10,000 a month from AdSense,” Paul Horner, a prolific, Facebook-focused fake-news writer told us this week. And among a growing group of Macedonian teenagers who see fake-news sites as a way to make easy money from American gullibility, the most successful can make about $5,000 a month, BuzzFeed reported.
The Washington Post: This is how Facebook’s fake-news writers make money
“Guy wrote earlier about the attempted shaming of Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars and hosts of the popular HGTV show “Fixer Upper.” The Gaineses are Christians who attend a church with a pastor who is opposed to same-sex marriage, and an author BuzzFeed ran with this and painted them as a pair of anti-gay bigots, with no actual evidence or confirmation about their views on homosexuality. A huge controversy has followed the piece, with lots of responses about how it was inappropriate, poor journalism, and a frightening attempt at a witch hunt.” Excerpt from Townhall Written by Christine Rousselle
Glenn Beck: Chip Gaines Takes High Road Against Journalist Who Tried to Portray Him As a Bigot
Students Have ‘Dismaying’ Inability To Tell Fake News From Real, Study Finds
Think today’s college students are getting their money’s worth? Don’t count on it. They spend a lot of money and rack up a lot of student loans to become indoctrinated by leftist, socialist professors. Now we learn this:
Stanford researchers assessed students from middle school to college and found they struggled to distinguish ads from articles, neutral sources from biased ones and fake accounts from real ones.
NPR: Students Have ‘Dismaying’ Inability To Tell Fake News From Real, Study Finds
10 Ways to Spot a Fake News Story
I didn’t want to leave you in the lurch, so I found some tips on how to spot the fake news. This is worth passing on to anyone who looks stuff up (researches).
HowStuffWorks: 10 Ways to Spot a Fake News Story
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