I am so sick of this fake news crap!

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Everytime I open up an article that puts Trump on blast or is even just questions one of his decisions. There will be at least five to ten people in the comment section claiming that they are getting tired of all this fake news!! What arent these people getting about fake news sites?! Fake news sites are, Americannews.Com, Civictribune.Com, Drudgereport.Com.Co. etc ad nauseum!

I listen to Reich Wing radio so I know that this is being spearheaded by Hannity, Rush, et al. They are twisting this real fake news story and trying to have it labeled to credible news website and it is getting past the point of minor annoyance. Add to the fact you have these talking heads spout this crap. We know for a fact that the Russian .gov pays people to make fake profiles and troll and or spread falsehoods. It is going to get to the point where actual people are going to start believing in this crap if they see it enough, and Im not talking about your racist Uncle Harold either.

Im not sure how to combat this.

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1. Propaganda is tough to deal with.

Using affinity and likeness makes it hard for many to separate truth from fiction.

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2. No way to fight it.

We live in the era of reality television, where the most transparent inventions are considered true. Facts are whatever appeals to you now. Something could be true and false at the same time, and many people would not even blink at the inconsistency.

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3. Real news is properly sourced.

A newspaper won't run an article without independent confirmation from two sources. Blogs are not under the same restriction, and of course, neither are fake news sites.

In the case of the Russian influence on our election, the source material itself is classified, but WaPo got confirmation from two people or more who saw the classified brief.

You could tell people that just because you don't like the news doesn't mean it's fake.

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4. Not just the fake news.

I am sick of the rapid lying liars on tv. The Republicans have sent out their best speed liars to inundate the media with off-point responders and they are allowed to get away with it because the tv spokespeople are well...just bad at their jobs.

One exception - Joy Reid.

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5. Exactly my question. I'm hoping imaginative Dems will...

... advise us on how to combat this stuff. I was shocked to see a Breitbart news story show up on Google News. Never saw that before. It listed 8 times Hillary's campaign allegedly engaged in "fake news." Examples of the items were "landing under sniper fire" and "Benghazi was a response to a Youtube video" and "problems and marine recruitment office."

Some people say that the best response is to ignore, that convinced people won't be persuaded, but I don't want to cede the media (all sorts) to the far, far right. I want Tweets and Facebook posts to have to contend with us truth tellers. The problem is finding a clean, quick phrase to distinguish mistakes/things that have been corrected/misinterpretations from forceful peddling of lies. I need a PR person to tell me what to say quickly and clearly.

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6. this simply serves their rejection of

the "lamestream, liberal" media. ..an affirmation of the fact free zone, not the type to actually research, or even ponder what fake news actually is. "Fake news" is an easy label to slap onto something you don't want to know about.

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7. Drudge? Drudge is just headlines and links to stories on other sites.

The only way Drudge could be fake is if the links don't work.

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8. "Fake news" is a vague term

My feeling is that "fake news" is a vague term and, thus, overused. It doesn't describe what is behind the content or website in question.

I wrote about the subject "Vague term ‘fake news’ popular in fact-averse Trump world" here.

Lies are thrown around routinely, and Trump fits right in.