The Left is Busily Planting Fake Red-Meat Conservative News Sites

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
The Left is Busily Planting Fake Red-Meat Conservative News Sites
Many of the fake stories conservatives are tricked into sharing have been planted by the left to make fools of us.


Almost all of us have been a victim of accidentally spreading fake news at one time. A trusted friend emails you a link to an article that is red meat for the conservative base; it sounds legitimate, and the name of the site even sounds official. You forward the article and post it on Facebook and Twitter — and then the backlash is embarrassing. Multiple people point out you’re wrong, and you feel like an idiot. But how were you to know, especially in this information overload, social media era? It has become normal to quickly skim articles and headlines. And why would you suspect your most trusted, intelligent friends would be sending you false news?

It used to be The Onion was the only satire news site. And the site makes it very clear its news is satire. But within the last year, multiple sites (there is a list compiled here) have sprung up that do not make it clear they are satire, if at all. They brazenly post fake news that isn’t even funny, like The Onion, but sounds like legitimate news.

By posting these outlandish tales, the sites attract many page views, which allows them to make money from advertisers. Even more nefarious, some are run by Democrats in order to make conservatives look like radical extremists. The strategy, an insider told me, is to fool so many conservatives into spreading a ridiculous, fake article that finally a prominent elected official falls for it. Then the left pounces on the official and makes them look foolish and/or an extremist.

As I’ve written previously, putting out heroic stories about Donald Trump that turn out to be false doesn’t help Trump when people discover they are false.
 

This_person

Well-Known Member
Personally, I think the left is planting the "Russians are hacking our voting systems" stories as well.

Their site gets hacked. Election sites get hacked. Now, there's no reason to believe the outcome of the election. If they can't actually pull off the hacking (remember, power is what the other side thinks you have, not what you really have), and they lose, it was because the Russians hacked us. If they win, there's no PROOF the Russians hacked in. It's a win-win for them.

Granted, the same could be said for either side. But, which side is running a candidate known for violating the law with respect to internet usage? Has there yet been anything substantive put out from the Democrat site hack other than what everyone already knew (DWS rigged the D primary for HRC)?
 

glhs837

Power with Control
If you want to act like a journalist and put news out there, it's incumbent upon you to vet your sources. If you don't and look like a fool, well, there's only one person to blame.
 

vraiblonde

Board Mommy
PREMO Member
Patron
The problem, of course, is that on the internet people can be whatever they want. Some teenage kid sitting in his WOW encrusted bedroom can buy a domain name and start putting out whatever he wants and call it "news". These little bedbugs are typically not worth the expense of tracking down and suing for libel, so they continue.

We see these faux news blogging scams with misleading "organization" and domain names all the time. Politifact, Media Matters, Tax Policy Center, FAIR, Brookings Institution, FactCheck, etc. At least Democratic Underground has the honesty to say flat out what they are - they don't pretend to be an unbiased news source, then blast out pure hate-filled bias like the rest of them do.

And in case you care, here's the list of Left wing internet sources, compiled by the Left themselves:

http://www.fightconservatives.com/Links-and-Resources/

PS, "fightconservatives.com" is honest as well, and not pretending to be unbiased or a reputable news source. What's interesting is the ENORMOUS list of lefty sites and media sources, and the tiny little few conservatives ones (aka, the opposition). I thought the memebot was that Republicans owned all the medias? :confused:

So anyway, ideally people would form their opinions based on real information, but they don't.
 
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