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THE THREE MOST BELIEVED FAKE NEWS STORIES OF THE ELECTION (TESTED BY STANFORD) FAVORED HILLARY
Empty Wheel ^ | 2/3/2017 | Empty Wheel

Posted on 02/03/2017 2:25:21 PM PST by scooby321

In a piece repeating erroneous BuzzFeed reporting, the Atlantic expresses concern that the left is now sharing fake news stories just like the right shared them during the election.

(Excerpt) Read more at emptywheel.net ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: election; fakenews
If progressives are looking to be shocked, terrified, or incensed, they have plenty of options. Yet in the past two weeks, many have turned to a different avenue: They have shared “fake news,” online stories that look like real journalism but are full of fables and falsehoods.It’s a funny reversal of the situation from November. In the weeks after the election, the press chastised conservative Facebook users for sharing stories that had nothing to do with reality. Hundreds of thousands of people shared stories asserting incorrectly that President Obama had banned the pledge of allegiance in public schools, that Pope Francis had endorsed Donald Trump, and that Trump had dispatched his personal plane to save 200 starving marines.
1 posted on 02/03/2017 2:25:21 PM PST by scooby321
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To: scooby321

I think people are waking up to who’s American and who are communists.

I would sure like to know all the diseases that Obamas child migration brought to US! CDC knows.


2 posted on 02/03/2017 2:28:53 PM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: Lopeover
I know for a fact

tuberculosis

3 posted on 02/03/2017 2:44:54 PM PST by scooby321 (o even lower)
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To: scooby321

EVD-68


4 posted on 02/03/2017 3:20:13 PM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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