http://theweek.com/articles/666395/crush...s-hysteria

MSM is out burning "witches" in their hysteria.

(12-12-2016 01:44 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 11:56 AM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 11:08 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 09:58 AM)Niner National Wrote:  Fake news is a very real thing, but like most things, people either don't understand what it is, or they're distorting the narrative to fit their own bias.

There are thousands of websites out there, that create and curate false information simply to drive traffic and traffic=revenue. Most of these websites are owned by people in eastern europe. Oddly, Macedonia is where many of them originate and many of them are owned/run by teenagers because teenagers there are not allowed to work. They created sites that both pushed Trump and Hillary narratives, but the left leaning fake news sites were not profitable, so all attention was focused on right leaning sites. Trump has an enthusiastic following, and people that are so excited about him, they'll literally believe anything that favors him. Hillary didn't have that kind of excitement around her, so site's pushing an anti-Trump, pro-Hillary narrative were a flop.

Some of these sites are literally getting millions of views PER ARTICLE. That generates an easy six figure income.

People keep confusing bias for false. CNN, MSNC, etc are biased. Fox News is biased. That doesn't make them fake news, even if things that are reported turn out to be false later. It makes them curators of sloppy journalism, but not willful liars.

You absolutely nailed it. I find it funny that only pro right wing fake news works because well..............for lack of a better word, "White uneducated voters".

racist....

I think you should delete this before you get banned.

For what? Your statement reeks of racism...

(12-12-2016 09:58 AM)Niner National Wrote:  Fake news is a very real thing, but like most things, people either don't understand what it is, or they're distorting the narrative to fit their own bias.

There are thousands of websites out there, that create and curate false information simply to drive traffic and traffic=revenue. Most of these websites are owned by people in eastern europe. Oddly, Macedonia is where many of them originate and many of them are owned/run by teenagers because teenagers there are not allowed to work. They created sites that both pushed Trump and Hillary narratives, but the left leaning fake news sites were not profitable, so all attention was focused on right leaning sites. Trump has an enthusiastic following, and people that are so excited about him, they'll literally believe anything that favors him. Hillary didn't have that kind of excitement around her, so site's pushing an anti-Trump, pro-Hillary narrative were a flop.

Some of these sites are literally getting millions of views PER ARTICLE. That generates an easy six figure income.

People keep confusing bias for false. CNN, MSNC, etc are biased. Fox News is biased. That doesn't make them fake news, even if things that are reported turn out to be false later. It makes them curators of sloppy journalism, but not willful liars.

Most of the fake news stories came out of Russia to these teens in Europe to spread the lies. One of the ordeal was the Pizzagate incident. The problem with that is that the real story was the Jeffrey Epstein story and the sex slave island which he was sent to prison for. It was reported that the said clients were Horowitz, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. The woman who sued Trump for raping her at the age of 13 is the same woman who sued Bill and the Horowitz lawyer. The fake news could also backfire like this one that could hurt Trump as well.

(12-12-2016 12:54 PM)Kronke Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 12:52 PM)ARandomHerdFan Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 12:42 PM)Kronke Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 12:37 PM)Gakusei Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 10:10 AM)Kronke Wrote:  That is how they initially sold the idea, but that has now quickly pivoted to sites like Drudge, Breitbart, Infowars, etc., basically any dissenting opinion in the alternative media.

It hasn't pivoted. Those have always been idiotic, propaganda sites.

Yeah, it has. I watched it happen in real time.

And no, they aren't.

People have been commenting about the insanity of Infowars since well before the election.

"People" being the controlled opposition.

Infowars was right about practically everything this election cycle. Get over it.

You're right... what was I thinking?

The chemtrails must have been affecting me.

(12-12-2016 10:19 AM)Paul M Wrote:  Trump's guilty of putting out fake news too. But that's the part I'm supposed to be silenced about.

Sorry, I'm not riding any train going east or west. I agree with Justice Louis Brandeis. I will speak and wont be subject to jackwads attempts to silence me. Left couldn't and the right will fail too. Muh butt.

Yep. Its all about YOU Paul.

(12-12-2016 11:08 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 09:58 AM)Niner National Wrote:  Fake news is a very real thing, but like most things, people either don't understand what it is, or they're distorting the narrative to fit their own bias.

There are thousands of websites out there, that create and curate false information simply to drive traffic and traffic=revenue. Most of these websites are owned by people in eastern europe. Oddly, Macedonia is where many of them originate and many of them are owned/run by teenagers because teenagers there are not allowed to work. They created sites that both pushed Trump and Hillary narratives, but the left leaning fake news sites were not profitable, so all attention was focused on right leaning sites. Trump has an enthusiastic following, and people that are so excited about him, they'll literally believe anything that favors him. Hillary didn't have that kind of excitement around her, so site's pushing an anti-Trump, pro-Hillary narrative were a flop.

Some of these sites are literally getting millions of views PER ARTICLE. That generates an easy six figure income.

People keep confusing bias for false. CNN, MSNC, etc are biased. Fox News is biased. That doesn't make them fake news, even if things that are reported turn out to be false later. It makes them curators of sloppy journalism, but not willful liars.

You absolutely nailed it. I find it funny that only pro right wing fake news works because well..............for lack of a better word, "White uneducated voters".

That's not where I was going with it.

There are plenty of mind-numbingly stupid ethnic voters on the left, but they were largely passion-less supporters for Hillary. That doesn't garner fanatical support. They are the people politicians have been pandering to for years.

Middle America in flyover states has been ignored for decades now. They are paid lip service, but their way of life has steadily been eroded for the last 30-40 years. Trump was different. He talked TO them rather than talking about them.

That turned them into fanatical supporters that were willing to overlook questionable sources if it was good for Team Trump.

If someone posted an article on a fake liberal news site that Trump had drafted legislation to do away with affordable housing, food stamps, and affirmative action and promoted it to low education African Americans, I bet the click through and share rates would be pretty similar.

It's not a race thing. It's passion over common sense for people that are tired of losing through no real fault of their own.

(12-12-2016 04:32 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 11:08 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 09:58 AM)Niner National Wrote:  Fake news is a very real thing, but like most things, people either don't understand what it is, or they're distorting the narrative to fit their own bias.

There are thousands of websites out there, that create and curate false information simply to drive traffic and traffic=revenue. Most of these websites are owned by people in eastern europe. Oddly, Macedonia is where many of them originate and many of them are owned/run by teenagers because teenagers there are not allowed to work. They created sites that both pushed Trump and Hillary narratives, but the left leaning fake news sites were not profitable, so all attention was focused on right leaning sites. Trump has an enthusiastic following, and people that are so excited about him, they'll literally believe anything that favors him. Hillary didn't have that kind of excitement around her, so site's pushing an anti-Trump, pro-Hillary narrative were a flop.

Some of these sites are literally getting millions of views PER ARTICLE. That generates an easy six figure income.

People keep confusing bias for false. CNN, MSNC, etc are biased. Fox News is biased. That doesn't make them fake news, even if things that are reported turn out to be false later. It makes them curators of sloppy journalism, but not willful liars.

You absolutely nailed it. I find it funny that only pro right wing fake news works because well..............for lack of a better word, "White uneducated voters".

That's not where I was going with it.

There are plenty of mind-numbingly stupid ethnic voters on the left, but they were largely passion-less supporters for Hillary. That doesn't garner fanatical support. They are the people politicians have been pandering to for years.

Middle America in flyover states has been ignored for decades now. They are paid lip service, but their way of life has steadily been eroded for the last 30-40 years. Trump was different. He talked TO them rather than talking about them.

That turned them into fanatical supporters that were willing to overlook questionable sources if it was good for Team Trump.

If someone posted an article on a fake liberal news site that Trump had drafted legislation to do away with affordable housing, food stamps, and affirmative action and promoted it to low education African Americans, I bet the click through and share rates would be pretty similar.

It's not a race thing. It's passion over common sense for people that are tired of losing through no real fault of their own.

Confirmation bias.

Kind of like the mass confirmation bias of the left that were convinced Donald Trump was the anti-Christ and had no chance of winning the election. Fake news from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, NYT and WaPo.

(12-12-2016 09:58 AM)Niner National Wrote:  Fake news is a very real thing, but like most things, people either don't understand what it is, or they're distorting the narrative to fit their own bias.

There are thousands of websites out there, that create and curate false information simply to drive traffic and traffic=revenue. Most of these websites are owned by people in eastern europe. Oddly, Macedonia is where many of them originate and many of them are owned/run by teenagers because teenagers there are not allowed to work. They created sites that both pushed Trump and Hillary narratives, but the left leaning fake news sites were not profitable, so all attention was focused on right leaning sites. Trump has an enthusiastic following, and people that are so excited about him, they'll literally believe anything that favors him. Hillary didn't have that kind of excitement around her, so site's pushing an anti-Trump, pro-Hillary narrative were a flop.

Some of these sites are literally getting millions of views PER ARTICLE. That generates an easy six figure income.

People keep confusing bias for false. CNN, MSNC, etc are biased. Fox News is biased. That doesn't make them fake news, even if things that are reported turn out to be false later. It makes them curators of sloppy journalism, but not willful liars.

Sure it is, it;'s been around in one form or another since the days of OK Corral, or Butch Cassidy and Sundance kid. Everyone remember the *Breaking News* Sasquatch keeps Lumber Jack as Love Slave?

It's only now the leftists are trotting out something new to try and undermine, discredit, throw shade on the Trump election victory. It's a naked attempt to delegitimize his Presidency before it even starts. And it's coming from the very top.

(12-12-2016 10:19 AM)Paul M Wrote:  Trump's guilty of putting out fake news too. But that's the part I'm supposed to be silenced about.

Sorry, I'm not riding any train going east or west. I agree with Justice Louis Brandeis. I will speak and wont be subject to jackwads attempts to silence me. Left couldn't and the right will fail too. Muh butt.

By whom? Who is "jackwad" and who on earth would be trying to somehow silence you?

IF you've got something on Trump have at it. More news/info is always better.

(12-12-2016 11:08 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 09:58 AM)Niner National Wrote:  Fake news is a very real thing, but like most things, people either don't understand what it is, or they're distorting the narrative to fit their own bias.

There are thousands of websites out there, that create and curate false information simply to drive traffic and traffic=revenue. Most of these websites are owned by people in eastern europe. Oddly, Macedonia is where many of them originate and many of them are owned/run by teenagers because teenagers there are not allowed to work. They created sites that both pushed Trump and Hillary narratives, but the left leaning fake news sites were not profitable, so all attention was focused on right leaning sites. Trump has an enthusiastic following, and people that are so excited about him, they'll literally believe anything that favors him. Hillary didn't have that kind of excitement around her, so site's pushing an anti-Trump, pro-Hillary narrative were a flop.

Some of these sites are literally getting millions of views PER ARTICLE. That generates an easy six figure income.

People keep confusing bias for false. CNN, MSNC, etc are biased. Fox News is biased. That doesn't make them fake news, even if things that are reported turn out to be false later. It makes them curators of sloppy journalism, but not willful liars.

You absolutely nailed it. I find it funny that only pro right wing fake news works because well..............for lack of a better word, "White uneducated voters".

IKNOWRITE?!?

But, get this- Even funnier is that you still either haven't bothered, or more likely haven't learned how to read voting results and the breakdown of the electorate by race and education.

But, being the good guy that I am, and not being able to bear watching one fitail after another after another, let me help you out here:

"among white college graduates...Trump outperformed Clinton by a narrow 4-point margin. And-

"Trump won whites with a college degree 49% to 45%."

But, you know. Keep up with the ignorance, don't let the facts get in your way.

(12-12-2016 02:49 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 09:58 AM)Niner National Wrote:  Fake news is a very real thing, but like most things, people either don't understand what it is, or they're distorting the narrative to fit their own bias.

There are thousands of websites out there, that create and curate false information simply to drive traffic and traffic=revenue. Most of these websites are owned by people in eastern europe. Oddly, Macedonia is where many of them originate and many of them are owned/run by teenagers because teenagers there are not allowed to work. They created sites that both pushed Trump and Hillary narratives, but the left leaning fake news sites were not profitable, so all attention was focused on right leaning sites. Trump has an enthusiastic following, and people that are so excited about him, they'll literally believe anything that favors him. Hillary didn't have that kind of excitement around her, so site's pushing an anti-Trump, pro-Hillary narrative were a flop.

Some of these sites are literally getting millions of views PER ARTICLE. That generates an easy six figure income.

People keep confusing bias for false. CNN, MSNC, etc are biased. Fox News is biased. That doesn't make them fake news, even if things that are reported turn out to be false later. It makes them curators of sloppy journalism, but not willful liars.

Most of the fake news stories came out of Russia to these teens in Europe to spread the lies. One of the ordeal was the Pizzagate incident. The problem with that is that the real story was the Jeffrey Epstein story and the sex slave island which he was sent to prison for. It was reported that the said clients were Horowitz, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. The woman who sued Trump for raping her at the age of 13 is the same woman who sued Bill and the Horowitz lawyer. The fake news could also backfire like this one that could hurt Trump as well.

Oh, holy hell.

You got a source for ANY of that?

(12-12-2016 03:49 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 10:19 AM)Paul M Wrote:  Trump's guilty of putting out fake news too. But that's the part I'm supposed to be silenced about.

Sorry, I'm not riding any train going east or west. I agree with Justice Louis Brandeis. I will speak and wont be subject to jackwads attempts to silence me. Left couldn't and the right will fail too. Muh butt.

Yep. Its all about YOU Paul.

Post of the day. Thanks for making my point.

(12-12-2016 08:55 PM)Paul M Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 03:49 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  

(12-12-2016 10:19 AM)Paul M Wrote:  Trump's guilty of putting out fake news too. But that's the part I'm supposed to be silenced about.

Sorry, I'm not riding any train going east or west. I agree with Justice Louis Brandeis. I will speak and wont be subject to jackwads attempts to silence me. Left couldn't and the right will fail too. Muh butt.

Yep. Its all about YOU Paul.

Post of the day. Thanks for making my point.

Whatever works for you.

Telling you to bite me works.

(12-12-2016 09:50 PM)Paul M Wrote:  Telling you to bite me works.