The Literally 'Fake News' Thread

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  • ArcadiaGP

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    Want to try something different here... Please post examples of news articles that are literally 'fake news'... as in, outright propaganda or maliciously misleading. Not something you think is 'fake'... but provably 'fake'.

    I have a sort of content I'm looking for in-mind... and I don't want this to be a place to drop news that you just don't like or disagree with. There are definitely better threads for that sort of discussion.

    I'm going to post a few examples. When you contribute, it'd be cool if you fetch the actual headline of the story as you see it, then a brief description about why you think it belongs here. And, by all means, discuss the contributions!

    While some examples here will likely be political in nature, all examples of 'fake news' should be included. Let's try to stick to somewhat "reputable" or "prominent" outlets, or we'll hit the page limit in a week!


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    So this is from today, Gardner Harris at the New York Times.

    Nikki Haley’s View of New York Is Priceless. Her Curtains? $52,701

    What does this headline imply to you? Well, given the reaction to it on Reddit... Nikki Haley is an awful person, something about living rich, blah blah blah.

    Well if you look past the headline to, oh, paragraph 6 (before the article was revised)...

    A spokesman for Ms. Haley said plans to buy the curtains were made in 2016, during the Obama administration. Ms. Haley had no say in the purchase, he said.

    Oh. So Trump and Haley didn't buy $52k curtains. It was actually ordered for the State Department in 2016, and she had no say in it, and the purchase would have gone forward regardless of who became President.

    The NYT has just now revised the article, and included this. See, reviewing an article is supposed to happen before it's published.

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    So, while the content of the story has truth, even reasonable reasoning... the headline, implications, and intent behind it were 100% fake.

    This was perpetuated by other outlets, of course... Including The Hill, and New York Post (which did not mention the 2016 date, or Obama administration.)

    Even Jake Tapper of CNN went on to 'fact-check' this.

    https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1040601011247882240
     
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    Uh... should we have an in-thread rule about only 1 Huffington Post article per hour/day/week? Just not sure they deserve that much of a traffic increase.

    Oh, maybe the same for Breitbart. ;)
     

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    Uh... should we have an in-thread rule about only 1 Huffington Post article per hour/day/week? Just not sure they deserve that much of a traffic increase.

    Oh, maybe the same for Breitbart. ;)

    Archive links are preferred, and encouraged. Helps to preserve pages in case they are revised, as a bonus!

    Webpage archive is one such archiving site. You can input a URL of an article, and generate an archive link.

    This may require some manual editing by us to add the headline into the forum. It won't always fetch it.

    Edit: I'm a bit apprehensive to even include ThinkProgress... they've been having a rough week full of literally 'fake news'. I'll have to think on how to include hyper-partisan outlets without making it spammy.
     
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    So this fits.

    Guy from The Weather Channel is bracing for his life in the winds... suddenly, two dudes walk right by in the background, obviously not fighting super-strong wind.

    https://twitter.com/gourdnibler/status/1040678572262916096

    Weather Channel reporter goes viral after appearing to fake extreme wind conditions

    TWC actually responded to the video, stating:

    “It’s important to note that the two individuals in the background are walking on concrete, and Mike Seidel is trying to maintain his footing on wet grass, after reporting on-air until 1:00 a.m. ET this morning and is undoubtedly exhausted,” the network said.

    So... news guy gets caught exaggerating (or lying). Trying to create a story instead of just report on what's going on.

    It may be minor, but it's fake.
     

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    So this fits.

    Guy from The Weather Channel is bracing for his life in the winds... suddenly, two dudes walk right by in the background, obviously not fighting super-strong wind.

    https://twitter.com/gourdnibler/status/1040678572262916096

    Weather Channel reporter goes viral after appearing to fake extreme wind conditions

    TWC actually responded to the video, stating:



    So... news guy gets caught exaggerating (or lying). Trying to create a story instead of just report on what's going on.

    It may be minor, but it's fake.

    I posted the video in the Hurricane Florence thread.
     

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    Anderson Cooper is fighting back against the "kneeling in the water" memes.

    "The idea I am kneeling in water to make it look deep is idiotic."

    @AndersonCooper debunks the lies being spread by Donald Trump Jr., and others who falsely claimed he and his team exaggerated the severity of Hurricane Florence.

    Jake Tapper is backing him up

    Jake Tapper said:
    It would show a lot of character if those who put out the dishonest meme about Anderson’s hurricane coverage watched this, corrected the record, deleted their false memes, and apologized.

    Of course one has to have character before one can show it, I suppose.

    https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1041855911793385472
    https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1042021808256548866

    Better delete those memes, internet... or CNN will doxx your ass.
     

    T.Lex

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    There's not enough tequila in Tijuana for me to be interested in Anderson Cooper doxxing my ass.
     

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    ArcadiaGP

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    Here's some, based on misleading, misreading, and not caring enough to look deeper.

    Also another lesson in the "Stop Listening to Gateway Pundit" course.

    No, Brett Kavanaugh’s mother didn’t foreclose on his accuser’s parents' house

    “Bad Blood: Judge Kavanaugh’s Mother Foreclosed on Far Left Accuser’s Parents’ Home,” reads a headline published by Jim Hoft, the most consistently wrong man on the Internet.

    A website called Pacific Pundit published a headline reading, “CHRISTINE BLASEY-FORD MOTIVE: REVENGE – KAVANAUGH’S MOTHER JUDGE AGAINST PARENTS IN FORECLOSURE CASE 1996.”

    A separate headline published by the Powerline blog reads, “KAVANAUGH’S MOTHER RULED AGAINST ACCUSER’S PARENTS.”

    The opening paragraph reads, “It looks like Brett Kavanaugh’s mother, Judge Martha Kavanaugh, ruled against the parents of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accuses Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. Court documents show the losing party in a foreclosure case Martha Kavanaugh heard to be Ralph and Paula Blasey of Potomac, Maryland. They appear to be Christine Blasey Ford’s parents. … There now seems to be a motive, beyond partisan politics, for Ford to make up or significantly embellish her story so long after the ‘fact.’”

    The story concludes with these lines, “It seems more likely that Ms. Ford has invented or substantially embellished this story — out of political bias, animus towards the family because of the court case, or both.”

    The problem with these supposed “Ah-ha!” defenses of Kavanaugh is that they rely on a misreading of the actual court documents.

    A review of the filings shows that Judge Kavanaugh signed an order in 1997 dismissing the foreclosure after the Blaseys refinanced their home. The 10th item on the court docket reads, “ORDER OF COURT (KAVANAUGH, J./RICE, M.) THAT THE VOLUNTARY MOTION TO DISMISS IS HEREBY GRANTED WITH PREJUDICE AND THAT THE BOND FILED BY HARRY J. KELLY AS TRUSTEE SHALL BE RELEASED AND RETURNED FILED.”

    There was also another article out there that showed a "Ratemyprofessor" page for Christine Ford.

    It was the wrong Christine Ford.
     

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    On the other side of the aisle, WaPo had to make some edits to their article on passports.

    U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question

    The initial story claimed the Trump administration is taking unprecedented action against thousands of Hispanic people living near the southern border suspected of having obtained false U.S. birth certificates. It was based largely on anecdotal evidence from immigration lawyers working in the area who said they are seeing a surge in the number of passports under scrutiny.

    Within hours of its publication, a Slate reporter pointed out the practice of denying passports to people issued birth certificates from midwives suspected of fraud began under the Bush administration, and continued through the Obama administration. The story was corrected Aug. 31 to reflect this error. The story also asserted the Trump administration is newly targeting people delivered by a Texas doctor suspected of fraud, but HuffPo reports that practice also predates this administration.

    Two more corrections came later.

    Here's the new editors note:

    Editor’s note: After this story was published on Aug. 29, the State Department issued a statement challenging the accuracy of the article and provided previously unreleased data on passport denials. That information has been added, as was indicated in a Sept. 1 editor’s note. On Sept. 13, the story was updated to include comments from the daughter of Jorge Treviño, who had contacted The Post immediately after the story was published. Additional changes have been made to clarify that an affidavit about Treviño was submitted as part of an Obama-era case and to correct a reference to his profession — he was a general practitioner, not a gynecologist. As was noted in an Aug. 31 correction, the State Department began denying passports during the George W. Bush administration, not the Obama administration.
     

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    I mean, they had to know they'd get responses like this.

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    Yeah I zinged them a good one...before Bush's 2nd term the NYT's sent a reporter to southern Indiana to feel out the voters...He came into ACE hardware to the gun counter and good ol boys in bibs and carhart's kind of eyed him up and down (his shoes were a riot...like borderline clown shoes in earth tones) and he began asking us questions...You could tell he doesn't get out of the city much...When the article ran here was a sentence..."Southern Indiana is very rural and has a southern bent...It is only separated from Kentucky by the Kentucky river that separates the two states..."

    I called up the ombudsman and asked, seriously, after I named all of the rivers in New York how the F can a political reporter not know about the Ohio river? It's one of the most important rivers in our history...Literally the line between free and slave states...the highway of the first western movement...etc....

    The next day they issued a correction.....

    It was fun to tweet that little tidbit to them...
     

    ArcadiaGP

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    So Lindsey Graham did an interview with The Atlantic.

    He quoted a line from James Carville... the "drag a $100 bill through a trailer park" thing.

    "Journalists" spun it out of context, just quoting it as though Graham was describing Blasey Ford... Completely misrepresenting the video.

    It was re-posted by many outlets, including Yahoo News. People like Jennifer Rubin spread it around.

    Even Jake Tapper spoonfed his followers, explaining the context... and Rubin replied to him, again ignoring context, blaming Graham for being awful.


    https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2...james-carville-quote-to-lindsey-graham-video/

    https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/201...t-tweet-taking-lindsey-graham-out-of-context/
     
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