Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 1 hour later[^][v]#1,130,942
This is so funny because most of the "leftist fake news" Snopes debunks is like... memes while right-wing fake news is like. "Trump is really the Messiah sent by God to usher in the end-times, and another dispensation of God will occur, and it'll be just like Tim LaHaye said in his Left Behind books that I watched the movies about, so I had better shoot down innocent people in this pizza place. "
They're jokes started by fucking Tumblr users with nothing better to do. Literally, it's reversed GIFs and a crude photoshop. BBC is just hankering for some shit to say about leftists.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 5 years ago, 11 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,130,945
@previous (B)
I guess you missed the whole totally bogus witch hunt impeachment thing.
Killer Lettuce? !HonkUK.BIE joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,130,947
@1,130,942 (B) > most of the "leftist fake news" Snopes debunks is like... memes > They're jokes started by fucking Tumblr users with nothing better to do. Literally, it's reversed GIFs and a crude photoshop.
Disagree. Serious and effective fake news targeting left-wingers does exist.
While stories of police violence at Standing Rock have become commonplace, the account that spread last week was particularly shocking. An article from AlternativeMediaSyndicate.com said officers had burned the camps of indigenous activists fighting the Dakota Access pipeline – and destroyed their tipis.
The piece, which included an image of multiple large tipis engulfed in flames, was shared more than 270,000 times on Facebook. But the photo was from a 2007 HBO film, and a key premise of the story was fake.
[...]
Media and communications experts suspect those dynamics could shift under Trump. In an interview with the Atlantic, Brooke Binkowski, managing editor of the fact-checking site Snopes, said she had seen a spike in the amount and popularity of fake news directed toward liberal audiences.
On the left, there are numerous styles of misinformation that appear to be gaining traction. In addition to blatantly fabricated stories, there have been increasing concerns about articles featuring deceitful and hyperbolic headlines, viral memes that have a very tenuous connection to the truth and poorly sourced articles that use inaccurate visuals to draw readers.
At Standing Rock, for example, progressive sites have published random photos of massive buffalo herds suggesting they were at the demonstrations. One Facebook page posted footage of Trump talking to tech leaders in a highly misleading video about tribal leaders meeting with the president’s transition team.
A recent countercurrentnews.com article falsely declared: “State Gives Cops the Green Light To Shoot DAPL Protesters On Sight”.
[...]
Goldtooth said it had been a constant struggle to stop the spread of false news about Standing Rock. “Folks feel like they need to sensationalize something to get attention and get awareness. You don’t need to do that. Tell the story as it is.”
Other recent fake or misleading stories catering to progressive audiences include a LearnProgress.org piece that falsely said Melania Trump was selling jewelry on the White House website; a viral story about a boy handcuffed at an airport due to Trump’s immigration ban, which used a photo from 2015; and a Politicot.com story with a fabricated Mike Pence quote about abortion and rape.
Progressives have also widely shared tweets from a number of accounts claiming to be rogue government officials speaking out against Trump, even though there’s no evidence that they are run by public servants.
Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,130,978
the big difference is I never hear about what are called lefty conspiracy theories unless some establishment big media company like a youtube Fox News commentator is debunking the conspiracy that I otherwise never would have heard of. in contrast, righty conspiracy theories are big business and are spread to millions.
Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 2 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,131,015
@1,130,942 (B)
It was pretty embarrassing when they "debunked" a Babylon Bee article ?
(for those who don't get it, the Babylon Bee is a satire news site and basically the Fox News version of The Onion)
Also: > shoot down innocent people in this pizza place.
No one was hurt in the Comet Ping Pong shooting. The guy fired one shot into the floor.
(Edited 1 minute later.)
Sheila LaBoof replied with this 5 years ago, 3 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,131,051
but the kids are stored under that floor!
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 5 years ago, 2 hours later, 11 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,131,088
@previous (Sheila LaBoof)
That's not funny...at all.
Why did you think it was funny. What's wrong with you?
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 1 minute later, 11 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,131,089
> That's not funny...at all. > > Why did you think it was funny. What's wrong with you?
It's called irony. In trying to save the kids in the basement, he retardedly shot into the floor.
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 45 minutes later, 12 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,131,093
@1,130,978 (Sheila LaBoof)
You ever hear about the conspiracy that Trump is the Manchurian candidate and that Russia hacked the USAmerican election in 2016?
Sheila LaBoof replied with this 5 years ago, 21 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,131,095
The story The Manchurian Candidate involves a brain programming idea that in reality doesn't even work, but was fashionable and researched during the cold war. As for Russia and hacking, there are US agency reports that Russia has been, and continues to, get involved in many ways. Look it up. As for specifically "hacking the USAmerican election" I haven't heard it put so glibly with certainty that their efforts were the principal reason for the result, as described in the official US agency reports, which used far more careful language than that.