We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned

npr.org ^ | 11/23/2016 | Laura Sydell

[dirtboy]

[snip]

Coler is a soft-spoken 40-year-old with a wife and two kids. He says he got into fake news around 2013 to highlight the extremism of the white nationalist alt-right.

"The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right, publish blatantly or fictional stories and then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction," Coler says.

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When did you notice that fake news does best with Trump supporters?

Well, this isn't just a Trump-supporter problem. This is a right-wing issue. Sarah Palin's famous blasting of the lamestream media is kind of record and testament to the rise of these kinds of people. The post-fact era is what I would refer to it as. This isn't something that started with Trump. This is something that's been in the works for a while. His whole campaign was this thing of discrediting mainstream media sources, which is one of those dog whistles to his supporters. When we were coming up with headlines it's always kind of about the red meat. Trump really got into the red meat. He knew who his base was. He knew how to feed them a constant diet of this red meat.

We've tried to do similar things to liberals. It just has never worked, it never takes off. You'll get debunked within the first two comments and then the whole thing just kind of fizzles out.

[dirtboy]

Fake news about fake news. I have exactly ONE liberal friend on facebook who makes any kind of effort to debunk left-wing fake news. The rest cheerfully roll in it like a dog on a fresh turd.

[Gaffer]

NPR....now that’s a problem that needs to go away. Serves no purpose other than liberal ideology.

[madprof98]

Almost everything my liberal friends on FB post comes from fake news sites. Some of it is beyond ludicrous on its face, but they lap it up.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

The rest cheerfully roll in it like a dog on a fresh turd.

They roll in it the same way that, for example, people here roll in fake news about the Pope.

[Stentor]

Almost everything my liberal friends on FB...

The only good liberal friend is an ex liberal friend.

[Mears]

“Coler is a soft-spoken 40-year-old with a wife and two kids.”

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Typical NPR description of a liberal man.

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[trebb]

Fake news about fake news. I have exactly ONE liberal friend on facebook who makes any kind of effort to debunk left-wing fake news. The rest cheerfully roll in it like a dog on a fresh turd.

If only we could get some of our "concern" trolls to think before they wad up their panties....

[dirtboy]

This question:

When did you notice that fake news does best with Trump supporters?

Shows the agenda here. The guy had NOT mentioned Trump supporters before this question was asked. Bias, bias, bias.

[sit-rep]

It got so bad for me I unfriended 50 or so pre and post election. and I just offed 5 more yesterday and today faulting America for Thanks Giving. sssssooooooo sick of the hypocrisy it drove me to zero tolerance. so be it!!

[Resettozero]

NPR....now that’s a problem that needs to go away. Serves no purpose other than liberal ideology.

Keep the facilities and the engineers, who are probably mostly conservatives anyway, and give parting gifts to all the employees as they leave permanently to be replaced by a leaner crew of qualified Christian managers and reporters. What NPR and PBS have done...didn't work.

[KeyLargo]

114 Debunked Trump-Inspired Hate Crimes

by S. Noble • November 24, 2016

http://www.independentsentinel.com/114-debunked-trump-inspired-hate-crimes/

[TigerClaws]

“Fake news” = lib created term to justify censorship of all views that they oppose.

Fake news had THOUSANDS of libs calling the Justice Department to audit the results of the election all last week.

Fake news has reports on the left that the election was ‘hacked.

Fake news has Hillary winning the ‘popular vote’ by 2 million votes while failing to mention up to 3 million illegals voted and were encouraged to do so by President Obama despite the fact that’s a FELONY.

Fake news continues after the election. Trump met with the NEW YORK TIMES in person at their offices. If you read the actual transcript, every tweet and story that resulted from that meeting was a spin job, lying to say Trump is flip flopping on important issues. The transcript shows he was not.

[Gaffer]

As long as the politics are removed.

[dirtboy]

Congrats on Michigan officially being declared for Trump!

[deadrock]

Ya. That fake news about him not being a Catholic and not being a commie. It has to stop.

[Junk Silver]

Is there any way Trump could see to the defunding of these mendacious arrogant pricks before day 1?

[Madame Dufarge]

We've tried to do similar things to liberals. It just has never worked, it never takes off. You'll get debunked within the first two comments and then the whole thing just kind of fizzles out.

And then the big bad wolf said, "I'll huff and I'll puff 'til I blow your house down."

The end.

[sit-rep]

Thanks!! I feel like im “With the Band” now! lol...

It was truly a surprise to me...

[Resettozero]

As long as the politics are removed.

Probably not possible entirely. Just change out the old failures and replace with managers and personnel steeped in honesty. That would be a good restart for NPR and PBS.

[Gaffer]

Anything toward that goal would be a vast improvement.