Posted on 11/17/2016 4:38:08 PM PST by grundle
What do the Amish lobby, gay wedding vans and the ban of the national anthem have in common? For starters, they’re all make-believe — and invented by the same man.
Paul Horner, the 38-year-old impresario of a Facebook fake-news empire, has made his living off viral news hoaxes for several years. He has twice convinced the Internet that he’s British graffiti artist Banksy; he also published the very viral, very fake news of a Yelp vs. “South Park” lawsuit last year.
But in recent months, Horner has found the fake-news ecosystem growing more crowded, more political and vastly more influential: In March, Donald Trump’s son Eric and his then-campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, even tweeted links to one of Horner’s faux-articles. His stories have also appeared as news on Google.
Is he the one behind Huffington Post reporting that Hillary had a 98.4% probability of winning the White House?
Well, Trump is NOT in the White House (yet).
bo is.
I believe Twitter and Facebook gave a lot of alternative options for LIVs. I highly doubt it was this one source whether fake or not.
Oh look success ha as thousand fathers.
Has
98.1 %, not point 6.
The hubris to come up with that extra .1% is astounding.
This whole “ban fake news” push was started by CNN’s Brian Stelter after Hillary lost.
They cannot accept having anyone get info that doesn’t come from the Alphabet networks or the NY Times.
(Notice how virtually every one of these “fake news” sites they want banned lean right and virtually none lean left?)
Soros DID pay people to protest. Even in Ferguson, protesters were mad they didn't get paid what they were told.
The levels of “crazy” goes multiple levels deep.
The Washington Post should be labeled a Fake News site.
It is all canard to get rid of right wing commentary while allowing Media Matters, and the like, to “publish” their fake news.
How do we know his story about fake news isn’t fake?
In order to go out and block Drudge, O’Keefe, Assange FIRST they have to prominently push a couple REAL FAKE news guys out in front.
“JUST LOOK at how terrible they are..!”
And after they get that programmed into the public psyche, they’ll go about the REAL dirty work they REALLY want to do.
This is GROUNDWORK.
Read the Comments section.
Most of these people are frighteningly DELUSIONAL.
Gawd! What a world!!
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They are WP readers, so don’t expect too much.
On the plus side...you no longer have to pay to see a “freak show”.
Well, send the man a box of cigars
Self Promoter: “Now, what does the WashPost want me to say? What will get me the most coverage from the WashPost?”
Also, the failure of the media to be helpful, useful and informative led to an audience desperate for information.
The media just wanted to push their memes and narratives.
The most important thing related to this is the (apparently orchestrated) move this week to declare all bad news about the Clintons to be fake news. CNN were on about this earlier today, about how we had all this faked news circulating on the internet, including (they said) charges against the Clintons. This was sneaky. And it opens up the whole of Pandora’s box in this regard, one thing the left are very good at through repeated practice is the game of disinformation.
You need to be very alert to how this is played.
Not only can you deceive an opponent, you can also make an opponent think that he has been deceived when he was right in the first place. The “lack of WMDs in Iraq” theme was a good illustration of this. First you plant evidence that there were not the expected WMDs at point A. Then you insinuate that there had never been WMDs at any other point. Of course, there is no logical chain in that reasoning. The fact that one climate skeptic is proven to be on the payroll of an oil company does not in any way change the probability that hundreds of other skeptics are also on the payroll. (Nor does it make skepticism wrong).
So the game being played now is this — plant a few bogus minor news stories, something like Hillary Clinton took a thousand bucks from somebody to do something and she didn’t do it, not all that damaging, then disprove it, then add on that also, she and Bill didn’t charge vast sums for pay to play, nor are they involved in illegal acts concerning underaged youth.
This is actually the full-time business of some people in some parts of the government. In Canada, we had an entirely made up neo-Nazi organization run out of the headquarters of the national police force to see who was interested in being a neo-Nazi. Then one or two people joined that to find out who was interested in promoting Nazism. So at the meeting you had fake Nazis running the show, and fake Nazis in the audience listening to the spiel. Granted, there may have been one or two real Nazis there. Or confused teenagers who liked the look of the Nazi uniform.
Now if that isn’t faked news, I don’t know what is. But of course, the Nazis were experts at this, they started the war with a faked attack on their border, and they started the third Reich with a faked terrorist attack on their parliament.
What faked news is fooling us? This play acting internet stuff? Or the harder news we are told by the media? I think the answer to that has been “asked and answered” as they say in court.
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