Historical Examples of "Fake News"

[Luxman]

https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...ctice/three-historical-examples-of-fake-news/

A lot, if not most religious doctrine is inaccurate.

 

[Jack Davenport]

 

[Luxman]

Good fake examples of fake news.

 

[Jack Davenport]

Good fake examples of fake news.

"Whitelash" was fake news. So fake that he had to retract it.

 

[acenipplelicker]

:suicide:

ORIGINAL FAKE NEWS STORY # 1





Big time Fake News Offender

 

[bobjustbob]

Oh my God! Eric has another account. Thank you Jesus, Halleluiah.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

free photo hosting

 

[Ulysses31]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion

 

[Jack Davenport]

Fake News 12/09/16 edition

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-ho...g-christmas-party-at-trumps-washington-hotel/

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Oooh, oooh. Benghazi was caused by a video. That was a great fake news story.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

Oooh, oooh. Benghazi was caused by a video. That was a great fake news story.

Ben what???
Don't believe I have ever heard of that.....

 

[acenipplelicker]

benghazi

 

[Johan]

Stop worrying about fake news. What comes next will be much worse


In the not too distant future, technology giants will decide what news sources we are allowed to consult, and alternative voices will be silenced

In my exploration of “fake news”, I’ve found some troubling things. And it’s not just the rightwing news network that’s worrying. I’ve recently gone back and taken a preliminary look at the leftwing media ecosystem, trying to map the hyperlinks between these sites – so I’m not trying to establish causation or assign blame as to what kinds of content these sites circulate. There are plenty of other people willing to do that. What I’m really looking for is a way forward.

I’m primarily interested in the larger network that has enabled fake news to become such a salient topic. What I’ve found most troubling about fake news so far isn’t the factual errors, the misinformation, or the propaganda involved. It’s not the politics either . And no, it’s not Trump.
What’s scary about fake news is how it is becoming a catch-all phrase for anything people happen to disagree with. In this regard, fake news is sort of the *********** of “post-fact” and “post-truth”  –  though not directly related, they’re all part of the same dysfunctional ******.

Platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have been accused of being responsible for the result of the US election, the Brexit referendum outcome or events such as Pizzagate – which led Hillary Clinton this week to describe fake news as “a danger that must be addressed”. The worst part of this debate has been obscured by politics-as-usual, techno-dystopian Fahrenheit 451 tropes – and to some degree, more misinformation.


Reality bytes

Did the sequence of events leading up to the 4 December #Pizzagate incident in Washington, DC mark the point when fake news became real? I think not. Fake news has been real since we’ve had the capability to communicate language and tell stories. It’s an unfortunate reality that news reporting is often at odds with the interest trifecta of politics, profits, and public opinion.

What’s changed is the internet, which has altered the scale of the fake news problem, taking it to another level. While fake news might have been less visible in the past, it has always been with us. Where we might find Twitter bots today, we’ll find AI-powered virtual assistants and ubiquitous natural language interfaces (ie, Alexa, Siri, and Google Home) tomorrow.


Fake news will be our virtual friend

In some ways, we’ve already arrived. Is it fake news when Google Maps fails to provide us with the fastest route to a destination? Do we cry “fake news” when a deceptive review on Amazon influences our decision to buy an inferior product? What about when we go back after a negative experience and discover biased reviews on Yelp?
Fake news is more about what we can confirm as real than what we can identify as fake. News is the fabric that weaves together our realities, and Google, Facebook, Twitter –  through always-on phone screens, activity trackers, and 24/7 GPS and indoor Bluetooth trails – represents our interface with this brave new world.

As global technology companies move forward with solutions to protect us  –  and their advertising revenue – from the scourge that is fake news, they must ensure that the smaller, less visible, alternative news outlets are not caught in their operational cleansing.

Independent media that seek to distribute their own news content are already challenged by premium content delivery systems such as Facebook’s Instant, 360 (Video), and Google’s AMP. The industry’s filtering response to fake news could signal the end of legitimate news outlets that make an effort to draw attention to issues they feel are underrepresented or intentionally suppressed by the mainstream media.


The new(s) pornographers

Fake news is a lot like pornography  –  especially in terms of how gatekeepers classify certain content (and known sources of content) they deem unsuitable for their audiences. Take, for instance, the Pulitzer prizewinning Vietnam war photo removed from Facebook. If a combination of human and machine detection has difficulty differentiating between ***** pornography and Vietnam war images, wait until we start pre-filtering (ie, preferentially censoring) news based on issue-based framing and community self-reporting.

Fake news has certainly been attracting attention, including that of national policymakers. Marsha Blackburn, an American congresswoman, has gone so far as to imply that internet service providers should be held responsible for taking down fake news, saying: “If anyone is putting fake news out there, the ISPs have the obligation to in some way get that off the web.”

“In some way” are the key terms here, but to be fair, Blackburn also suggested that it’s time for platforms such as Facebook to look into having human editors and we know how that’s been going recently.

Yet hiring an editorial team to moderate content is in direct opposition to the hands-off algorithmic meta-business models of most online companies. Why? Because they primarily sell people’s attention. Facebook has emphasised that it is not  –  and never plans to become  –  a media company.

Is there a practical solution to fake news? I can’t say. But I can see where we might be headed: the suppression of alternative voices and the censorship of content that addresses certain issues.

In the 2016 infowars, if we aren’t vigilant, the result of fake news is likely to be yet another layer of filtering. And this time around, the filters won’t be to segment audiences for advertising purposes or to target voting electorates; it won’t be to display the news articles, “likes” and intra-thread @replies that algorithms think we want to see first.

The filters in the future won’t be programmed to ban pornographic content, or prevent user harassment and *****. The next era of the infowars is likely to result in the most pervasive filter yet: it’s likely to normalise the weeding out of viewpoints that are in conflict with established interests.

This isn’t a just problem limited to the centre, the left, or the right. Rather, this is a new reality. So, as everyone barricades themselves further into algorithmic information silos, encrypted messaging services, and invite-only social network sites, it’s at least worth a thought. In the coming decade, Al-powered smart filters developed by technology companies will weigh the legitimacy of information before audiences ever get a chance to determine it for themselves.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/09/fake-news-technology-filters

 

[Jack Davenport]

********* will be legalized in 48/50 states by then anyway..

You could have Bobcat Goldthwait reading the news and they wouldn't know the difference.

 

[sean miguel]

Was Duke LaCrosse fake news?

Or how about "hands up, don't shoot?"

As in a false narrative being PUSHED by mainstream so called journalists.

And Hillary pining away about fake news contributing to her defeat.

Yeah, the youtube video, coming under sniper fire in bosnia. fake news.

bitch, just fade away.

 

[BCT]

:suicide:

ORIGINAL FAKE NEWS STORY # 1


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Big time Fake News Offender

Jackie's ass looks really tight in this pic.

 

[meesterperfect]

Fake news goes back way before the JFK Assassination.
But that one was probably their all-time masterpiece. I doubt they'll ever top that one.
And the photo isn't real you know.

Good to see so many of us seeing the very real reality of fake news.
And hopefully seeing the very real results of it also.
Seeing the fake news is like one of those pictures you have to stare at until a hidden image appears.
For some people it takes longer than others. Some can never see it. But when you do finally see it there is no turning back and you are then able to see it every time.

Some Fake News off the top of my head.

Lizard People, Flat Earth, Chemtrails (I think), Moon Landing in 69 was a hoax(It wasn't fake).
Those are fake news stories.
Also some big ones
The Lusitania was not carrying weapons headed for England.
FDR and Churchill did not know about Pearl Harbor before it happened.
Gulf Of Tonkin was why the US invaded Vietnam.
JFK, RFK, MLK were ****** by single lone nuts.
Israel attacked the USS Liberty by accident.
The Branch Davidians fired 1st.
9/11 was done by 19 men with boxcutters (6 of which were found alive later and 1 had died prior)
being led by a man in a cave on the other side of the world.
Jet fuel caused both towers to collapse into dust.
The US invaded Afghanistan to find a man in a cave.
The US invaded Iraq because Saddam had Nukes.
The US invaded Libya because Gaddafi was ******* his people.
Bin Laden was ****** in 2011.
The Benghazi ****** and ******* were because of a video.
Hiliary turned over all her emails.
Bill Clinton ***** were a result of a vast right wing conspiracy.
If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.
Hiliary did not know the questions in advance during the debates (I called that before it was proven just by her body language.)
Hiliary is ahead by 8,9,15 points in the polls (another one I called as total bs).
Russia hacked the election. (me again).
Hillary won the popular vote.


Yeah lots of fake news out there.
Sure enough.

Short and sweet

 

[pool_hustler]

Was Duke LaCrosse fake news?
Or how about "hands up, don't shoot?"
As in a false narrative being PUSHED by mainstream so called journalists.

Yeah but over varying degrees of time (depending on the pace of developments) those are reported by elements of that same media to be false.
The junk these "independent" sources put out there just floats forever like turds in a toilet boil with no cleanup.
Oh so Hilary isn't actually running a ***** sex ring? Meh, no need for a disclaimer. We'll just move briskly along to the next SENSATIONALIST story.

9/11 was done by...men with boxcutters

I'll never understand why this one seems so incomprehensible to so many. What the hell would you do if some guy - part of a group of guys - approached you on an airliner with an open box cutter and told you that the plane was being high-jacked but that nobody would be hurt so long as they stayed calm and co-operated?
The nobody-harmed-in-a-hijack scenario had played out many many times in the past. We'd all heard and read about many of them via the news.
So under those circumstances, are you going to take this person on while having no weapon of your own?
Some passengers on flight 93 did, but unlike the twin towers passengers they knew they were going to die if they didn't.
Part of the (I **** to attribute this word to Bin Laden but...) genius of the 9/11 plan was its simplicity. That there was a chance to achieve earth shattering results using a handful of relatively simple means.

 

[Jack Davenport]

That whole PizzaGate fake news thing sure was poorly timed.

How bad of a loser do you have to be for a news story to cost you an election about 10 days after they have it?

Don't go to France or Germany Hillary..

 

[pool_hustler]

That whole PizzaGate fake news thing sure was poorly timed.

How bad of a loser do you have to be for a news story to cost you an election about 10 days after they have it?

???
Is she actually claiming THIS specific story is what cost her the election?