quade 4 #1 January 20, 2017 QuoteMajor Fake News Operation Tracked Back to Republican Operative Robert Mackey January 19 2017, 4:12 p.m. Cam Harris, a recent college graduate hoping to build a career as a political consultant, received an unwelcome email from a New York Times reporter this month. As the reporter, Scott Shane, recounted on the front page of Thursday’s Times, he had discovered that Harris was the publisher of a fake news site dedicated to smearing Hillary Clinton. So Harris did what came naturally. He started to spin. First, he admitted that he had written the hoax news articles casting Clinton as a criminal on his site, ChristianTimesNewspaper.com. Eight of his stories attracted enough attention on social networks to merit debunking by Snopes, the fact-checking site and one of them, published a month before the election, attracted six million readers with the headline, “BREAKING: ‘Tens of thousands’ of fraudulent Clinton votes found in Ohio warehouse.” Source and more: https://theintercept.com/2017/01/19/major-fake-news-operation-tracked-back-republican-operative/ It will be interesting to see where this goes.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,217 #2 January 20, 2017 quadeQuoteMajor Fake News Operation Tracked Back to Republican Operative Robert Mackey January 19 2017, 4:12 p.m. Cam Harris, a recent college graduate hoping to build a career as a political consultant, received an unwelcome email from a New York Times reporter this month. As the reporter, Scott Shane, recounted on the front page of Thursday’s Times, he had discovered that Harris was the publisher of a fake news site dedicated to smearing Hillary Clinton. So Harris did what came naturally. He started to spin. First, he admitted that he had written the hoax news articles casting Clinton as a criminal on his site, ChristianTimesNewspaper.com. Eight of his stories attracted enough attention on social networks to merit debunking by Snopes, the fact-checking site and one of them, published a month before the election, attracted six million readers with the headline, “BREAKING: ‘Tens of thousands’ of fraudulent Clinton votes found in Ohio warehouse.” Source and more: https://theintercept.com/2017/01/19/major-fake-news-operation-tracked-back-republican-operative/ It will be interesting to see where this goes. The Alt-Right will simply deny, on the grounds that the NYT is a fake news outlet.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
headoverheels 334 #3 January 20, 2017 This one from a few weeks ago is also interesting: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503146770/npr-finds-the-head-of-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs To listen, hit the play symbol near the top/left corner. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nigel99 684 #4 January 20, 2017 Why is it that looney people are so often religious? The correlation is surprisingly high... 'Christian Times' written for those unable to think rationally?Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #5 January 20, 2017 nigel99 Why is it that looney people are so often religious? The correlation is surprisingly high... 'Christian Times' written for those unable to think rationally? Well, once you've accepted the idea that a magic man-in-the-sky created the universe, then hid all proof of his existence, believing in other implausible concepts isn't much of a leap."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jakee 1,645 #6 January 20, 2017 nigel99 Why is it that looney people are so often religious? The correlation is surprisingly high... 'Christian Times' written for those unable to think rationally? As I'm sure Ron will be along to tell us in a minute, it doesn't matter that the information on the guys site is fake, it's more important that it feels trueDo you want to have an ideagasm? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
