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    Here are all the fake 'news' sites to watch out for on Facebook

    Andrew Couts —
    Nov 16 at 1:58PM | Last updated Nov 16 at 2:05PM

    It's a minefield out there, folks.

    The hot new thing in the world of media is websites that are completely bogus.

    Facebook, a primary driver of traffic to publications, has come under fire for allowing the promotion of fake news websites and sites that deal in conspiracy theories rather than facts. Some Facebook employees even reportedly revolted and took matters into their own hands.

    Many have questioned whether the rise of fake news contributed to the election victory of President-elect Donald Trump, and both Facebook and Google have responded by cutting these sites out of their advertising networks and otherwise making their stories harder to find. And PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking site, has launched a new section devoted to fake news.
 

    https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2016/1...ites/?AID=7236


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Re: Here are all the fake 'news' sites to watch out for on Facebook
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2016, 05:56:11 am »
Can you find a better link? The one you have seems to be broken. Thanks!


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Fake news---news you don't like or don't want to hear.

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Re: Here are all the fake 'news' sites to watch out for on Facebook
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2016, 05:59:35 am »
But while we're on the subject, it isn't just fake political news and it isn't just Facebook. There is a TONNAGE
of fake news sites out there---or, at least, fake links showing you, say, celebrity suicides with a picture of
a celebrity who is very much alive and well. Things like that. These click baiters just waste people's time and
make monkeys out of them.


"The question of who is right is a small one, indeed, beside the question of what is right."---Albert Jay Nock.

Fake news---news you don't like or don't want to hear.

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Re: Here are all the fake 'news' sites to watch out for on Facebook
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2016, 05:59:56 am »
Can you find a better link? The one you have seems to be broken. Thanks!
Sorry, about the only use I would have for Facebook is to keep up with local gossip, and from what I hear, that is highly inaccurate. Never mind. I'll just stop by the pawn shop, have a cup of varnish remover/coffee and chew the fat...
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Re: Here are all the fake 'news' sites to watch out for on Facebook
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2016, 06:10:01 am »
Sorry, about the only use I would have for Facebook is to keep up with local gossip, and from what I hear, that is highly inaccurate. Never mind. I'll just stop by the pawn shop, have a cup of varnish remover/coffee and chew the fat...

You're drinking the wrong coffee, bro . . . try . . .

   
« Last Edit: November 24, 2016, 06:10:31 am by EasyAce »


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Fake news---news you don't like or don't want to hear.

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Re: Here are all the fake 'news' sites to watch out for on Facebook
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2016, 07:55:39 am »
You're drinking the wrong coffee, bro . . . try . . .

   

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Re: Here are all the fake 'news' sites to watch out for on Facebook
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2016, 09:21:37 am »
You're drinking the wrong coffee, bro . . . try . . .

   
LOL! That stuff cooks down until someone drinks it. Last cup? Take one for the team...
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Re: Here are all the fake 'news' sites to watch out for on Facebook
« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2016, 10:09:30 am »
HERE IS A LIST OF THE PROVEN, ADMITTED, "FAKE NEWS" OUTLETS.


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Re: Here are all the fake 'news' sites to watch out for on Facebook
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2016, 02:42:52 pm »
Sorry, about the only use I would have for Facebook is to keep up with local gossip, and from what I hear, that is highly inaccurate. Never mind. I'll just stop by the pawn shop, have a cup of varnish remover/coffee and chew the fat...
Its value for me has been reconnecting with friends from high school and college. It is pretty worthless as a news source. I won't dare click on the "clickbait" stories with breathless, outlandish headlines from these phony news sites.
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Re: Here are all the fake 'news' sites to watch out for on Facebook
« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2016, 03:32:00 pm »
Its value for me has been reconnecting with friends from high school and college. It is pretty worthless as a news source. I won't dare click on the "clickbait" stories with breathless, outlandish headlines from these phony news sites.

The headlines aren't half as bad on the clickbaits as their use of images that prove nothing to do
with the stories to which the links send you to---for example, I once clicked on a link to a story
about celebrity suicides . . . and the photograph accompanying the link was of Susan Boyle, the
British singer who made her out-of-left-field splash a few years ago. I thought, she committed
suicide? Turned out the story had items about celebrities who did commit suicide but Ms. Boyle
was emphatically not among them. (She is very much alive, if not exactly doing very well
these days . . .
)


"The question of who is right is a small one, indeed, beside the question of what is right."---Albert Jay Nock.

Fake news---news you don't like or don't want to hear.