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Pope Francis to wage war on 'fake news'
TheLocal.it ^
| 29 September 2017 14:48 CEST+02:00
| AFP
Posted on 09/29/2017 6:19:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Pope Francis is to tackle the rise of fake news in a bid to stop trolls and irresponsible media outlets fomenting hate.
“I have chosen this theme for World Communications Day 2018: ‘The truth will set you free’. Fake news and journalism for peace,” he said on Twitter on Friday.
Francis has repeatedly warned journalists of the weight of their responsibility in a world dominated by social media. […]
The Vatican said on Friday the Argentine pontiff wanted to tackle “an often misleading distortion of facts” and the spread of “baseless information that contributes to generating and nurturing a strong polarization of opinions”. …
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: commiepope; fakenews; onlinetrolls; popefrancis
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Not the first time Bergoglio did this; he also attacked “fake news”
last year. (In defense of
actual fake news, of course.)
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posted on
09/29/2017 6:19:58 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Perhaps His Holiness thinks the Bible is fake news?
2
posted on
09/29/2017 6:21:55 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(#MAGA)
To: Olog-hai
Surely the Pope is talking about CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, etc., right?
3
posted on
09/29/2017 6:24:18 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: Olog-hai
Institutions, governments, cultures, nation states, societies inevitably are destroyed from within. That is what this usurpatious, heretical priest is doing to the Roman Catholic Church.
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posted on
09/29/2017 6:25:11 PM PDT
by
nickedknack
("Your time is up!")
To: PROCON
He’s a typical liberal. Therefore, fake news is whatever he says it is. Global warming denial, for instance.
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posted on
09/29/2017 6:25:22 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: PROCON
Perhaps His Holiness thinks the Bible is fake news?I believe he does.
6
posted on
09/29/2017 6:29:59 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
To: Olog-hai
This pope is a fake Catholic
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posted on
09/29/2017 6:32:36 PM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
To: Olog-hai
#1 Olog-hai ~~~ The Vatican said on Friday the Argentine pontiff wanted to tackle “an often misleading distortion of facts” and the spread of “baseless information that contributes to generating and nurturing a strong polarization of opinions”. … GRRR!
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posted on
09/29/2017 6:35:19 PM PDT
by
heterosupremacist
(Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
To: Olog-hai
That cinches it for me.
This is not a Pope but an atheist socialist plant.
No true pope would use propaganda talking points from the world socialist order but would uphold that all seek the will and truth of God above all.
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posted on
09/29/2017 6:35:40 PM PDT
by
Skywise
To: Olog-hai
“The truth will set you free...”
Just waiting for Comrade Pope to be set free .... still waiting, and waiting and waiting ..........
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posted on
09/29/2017 6:38:11 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
To: Olog-hai
I don’t know what is more sad, the fact he is reading DNC talking points or that he is getting them 6 months after they were released.
To: Olog-hai
Finally something the pope and trump have in common
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posted on
09/29/2017 6:42:29 PM PDT
by
inchworm
To: dangerdoc
That (what you said) is a groaner 4shur.
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posted on
09/29/2017 6:43:02 PM PDT
by
BlueDragon
(..and that's the thing do you recognize the bells of truth when you hear them ring)
To: Skywise
Popie has a handler, too.
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posted on
09/29/2017 6:47:15 PM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: dangerdoc
Well,
last December he actually called so-called “fake news” that really is not fake “sin”. I guess actual fake news is virtue?
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posted on
09/29/2017 6:47:24 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
I wonder if donations are down at “The Church”?
To: Skywise
This is not a Pope but an atheist socialist plant.
But, but, how could you say such mean things? plants have fee-elings too!
Ever heard the one about the kudzu that ate Atlanta? This is just like that...except different.
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posted on
09/29/2017 6:53:29 PM PDT
by
BlueDragon
(..and that's the thing do you recognize the bells of truth when you hear them ring)
To: Mark17
I agree with you. This Pope is more concerned with social engineering than saving souls.
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posted on
09/29/2017 6:55:51 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: Olog-hai
Pope Marx is totally Secular.
Does no one see this?
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posted on
09/29/2017 6:56:52 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: BlueDragon
Yeah I heard that one; “Feed ME!”
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posted on
09/29/2017 6:57:54 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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