TGHusker Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 Ok so who is our pet Russian troll on HB - are there nominations? Interesting article. I'd like to know more from my Senator Lankford about the details. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/20/russian-internet-trolls-stoking-family-separation-/ Quote Mr. Lankford is a particularly powerful messenger, as both a member of the Senate intelligence committee and also one of the first Republicans to publicly oppose separation of families at the border . Link to comment
Making Chimichangas Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 10 hours ago, knapplc said: I was just going to post that... What a pathetic display. FauxNews is a damn embarrassment. Bunch of g'damn shills operating as mr. orange's propaganda machine. 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted July 2, 2018 Author Share Posted July 2, 2018 Looks like Fox Propaganda has lost that loving feeling for Michael Cohen. Quote Fox News Suddenly Questions Michael Cohen’s ‘Credibility’ Once a welcome and trusted Trump surrogate for Fox News, the network’s hosts are now seemingly starting to turn on Michael Cohen after his ABC interview. “If he knows something that is so important and yet he’s willing to sort of taunt the president by seeming to go against him, what does that say about this person as a witness?” Faulkner wondered aloud. “It gets difficult to kind of even see him as credible at this point. I don’t know what he knows, just based on the way he’s acting.” Later, she added, “The one thing we know about Michael Cohen is that he’ll throw anybody under the bus.” Faulkner pointed to the moment in court when Cohen gave up Fox News’ own Sean Hannity as his mystery “third client.” Beyond simply giving Fox News’ biggest star legal advice, Cohen was a frequent guest on the network for years. Before he hinted that he might flip on the president, he was a welcome and trusted Trump surrogate on Fox. “And if you’re willing to give an interview, if you’re willing to speak out publicly like he’s now done and go against the president,” co-host Abby Huntsman concurred, “I think we should all take that as a signal that he is in a dire situation, grasping for air, wanting any help he can get.” 2 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 The cry of 'fake news' is rising world wide per this article. Trump has led the charge for obvious partisan reasons but he is not alone. I think the statement in bold is important describing the current age as a 'post-truth era - an age without a shared reality'. If that be the case, how can we communicate effectively, evaluate 'truth statements', understand evidences, and investigate crime - like maybe collusion or obstruction. https://www.afp.com/en/news/23/online-battle-truth-doc-17h6381 Quote "Fake news" has been generalised to mean anything from a mistake to a parody or a deliberate misinterpretation of facts. At the same time, the proliferation of false online information is increasingly visible in attempts to manipulate elections, notoriously surrounding Trump's 2016 victory. - Misinformation - Nearly two years after Trump's shock win, debate is still raging on the impact of "fake news" on the presidential campaign. The build-up saw numerous examples of hoaxes and false news stories -- one about Hillary Clinton's alleged links to a child sex ring, another about the Pope purportedly endorsing Trump -- which were shared massively and some believe could have swung votes to tip Trump to victory. Misinformation had "a significant impact" on voting decisions, according to Ohio State University researchers, who questioned voters about whether they believed certain false stories. The researchers said it was impossible to prove that false information had changed the course of the election but noted it would have required a change in just 0.6 percent of voters, or 77,744 people, in three key states, to alter the electoral college outcome. Quote Since the election, Trump has denounced as "fake news" any information that displeases him while his aides have offered a mixture of truth and distortions, sometimes described as "alternative facts." This has hurt the credibility of the US news media and led some to describe the current period as a "post-truth era" -- an age without a shared reality. "The truth is no longer seen as important," said John Huxford of Illinois State University, whose research focuses on false information, adding that "lies and fabrication even seem to bolster one's reputation and political prowess among their core supporters." Quote "The truth is no longer seen as important," said John Huxford of Illinois State University, whose research focuses on false information, adding that "lies and fabrication even seem to bolster one's reputation and political prowess among their core supporters." Some studies suggest that more people are willing to believe falsehoods as partisanship has risen. A 2017 survey, for example, showed that 51 percent of Republicans believed that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, despite the hoax being debunked dozens of times. Many people reject accurate information which is "discomforting to their self-concept or worldview," noted a study by Professor Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth College in the United States and Jason Reifler of the University of Exeter in the UK. "Some misinformed individuals may already be at least tacitly aware of the correct information but (are) uncomfortable acknowledging it." Quote Trust in traditional media remains higher than for social networks, according to the YouGov poll. Only 23 percent of those polled said they trusted the news they found on social media. More than half (54 percent) agreed or strongly agreed that they were concerned about what is real and fake on the internet. "The very fact that so many people are circulating a piece of misinformation gives it credibility," said Huxford, of Illinois State University. A study released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in March found that false news spreads more rapidly on Twitter than real news does. - Social networks in crisis - Many see Facebook as being the main vehicle for spreading false information in recent years. The Cambridge Analytica public relations disaster, in which Facebook admitted that up to 87 million users may have had their data hijacked by the British consultancy firm, came on top of widespread criticism of the social network's propensity to spread and accentuate large amounts of completely false information. In the US, many Facebook accounts and private pages that were managed by the Internet Research Agency, a Russia-based "troll farm", were targeted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Trump's campaign links with Russia. Link to comment
knapplc Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 The 'fake' New York Times with a Trump Administration endorsement. Just another reminder that to the Trumpers, "fake" means anything they disagree with. 1 Link to comment
Danimal Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 On 5/26/2018 at 10:54 AM, Moiraine said: I don't know anything about either, but they are both in the yellow box, which is considered "fair interpretations of the news." Point is that this needs to be taken with a grain of salt. It wasn't done by a centrist or bipartisan commission. It was the work of one guy that openly admits he leans left and that right-leaners take some issue with where he places media. He does put work in and tries to keep his personal bias out of it but one does need to preserve a skeptic's eye here. 1 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 I'm guessing BBC isn't making the list. 2 Link to comment
commando Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 not a tRUmp approved message here Link to comment
knapplc Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 Melania apparently has her own mind about the news. Link to comment
commando Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 fox "news" a little treason? so what? 2 Link to comment
commando Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 sometime in the future.... 3 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 I’m surprised Trump hasn’t tweeted about how horrible this is for such a respectable organization. 1 Link to comment
commando Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 alex jones is a crisis actor 2 Link to comment
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