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[Sunlei]

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[UCmeNdc]

1. This is how you play dirty politics

[pbmus]

2. We need to call out every second of every day

Fake news from all the different types of media...that means everyone involved and printed in all of our most trusted sources of communication .....NOW...NOW....NOW

[Sunlei]

4. yes, this cancer has to be called out. We should never have let fox get away with the years of birth

certificate lies. You give these scammers an inch and they'll fuck-up & warp an entire generation of their own citizens.

[sandensea]

3. Lies, it's said, go around the world before the truth can put its pants on.

Never has that been more true than of today's right-wing media or its deplorables.

[More_Cowbell]

5. But it wasn't put out by Breitbart, right?

It was a liberal troll's website, claiming that its fake story was about information leaked by Breitbart?

[Sunlei]

7. your guess is as good as mine. IMO, Breibart IS a liar, fake news Republican website.

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. But it's a hoax!

Are those hoax indictments?

The ever-changing narrative.

I'm exhausted.

[blueinredohio]

8. Can't these people sue for libel?

[Qutzupalotl]

13. There are no senators or representatives by those names. n/t

[cannabis_flower]

24. Isn't Hal Lindsey..

the guy who played Barney Miller?

***Edit****

Hal Linden was Barney Miller Hal Lindsey is an evangelist.

[democratisphere]

9. Take Breitbart down.

Lock bannon up?

[xor]

10. I don't think Brietbart actually posted such an article

The fake article was published on a site that puts out fake nonsense to see how many conservatives will take it and run with it.

I get the appeal of it, but it's not exactly helpful at this time.

[democratisphere]

11. fake news networks, tools, platforms and the like should be taken down.

Bannon and his Nazi followers should be locked up.

[xor]

12. I don't think I can agree with that.

As harmful as fake news is and as much as I find it disturbing, I don't think shutting down free speech is the way to go. If anything, I suspect that is what some of the people behind this want to happen. Unless it can be proven that the fake news stories are directly inciting violence or proven to be funded by foreign powers intending to cause unrest, then I don't know what laws are being broken. It's not against the law to be an asshole and I don't think it should be.

We currently have laws that protect people from slander and also should make inciting violence illegal. If the laws covering that need to be tweaked then discussing specific modifications seems reasonable. However, broad and vague attempts to ban fake or misleading news seems like a dangerous path. Whatever you apply to one side will also be applied to the other side. That being said, companies have every right to decide who can and cannot use their services. So if facebook or twitter takes down these accounts then more power to them. If an ISP or hosting company decides to not host certain websites, then that is totally their choice. Although I suspect other company or service provider will step in to provide whatever services go away.

[Hornedfrog1985]

14. Pretty sure i read somewhere

Breitbart and some other "news" places are being investigated to see if they worked with russians too. I think it coukd be why hannity is bugging out. If they were knowingly using fake info from the russians to help trump they should be held responsible as well.

[MGKrebs]

25. I agree.

It's just sad how gullible people are. P.T. Barnum knew it and it hasn't changed.
I watched Fox and friends for a few minutes the other day. it is amazing how ridiculous it is. It is all designed to outrage people. That story about the church moving it's plaques of Washington and Lee- that is such a non-story, but they (Fox) want people to be pissed off about something, anything. They can then try to turn that outrage into votes. And it's been working.
People just have to be smarter.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. Yeah, but Democrats, progressives and liberals don't do it by posting INCORRECT titles on DU. . nt

[Control-Z]

17. You get the appeal of it?

You get the APPEAL of it? You're joking, right?

And, if not for the timing this would appeal to you?

So, tell me - if it's not helpful at this time, at what time exactly would it be (helpful)? And how would it be so?

I'm just not understanding your comments, I guess. Perhaps you could explain what you mean?

[leftynyc]

19. I think I understand

If someone could get those breitbart imbeciles to chase a fake story and post it and as a result get thousands of morons to look like gullible dupes who would believe anything about their political enemies, that could be appealing to someone looking for attention. It would also cast a shadow on any right wing site that pushed the story.

[MGKrebs]

26. It's no different than The Onion, or

Borowitz.

[WinkyDink]

15. So? Time will provide the truth.

[calimary]

16. Just means we ALL have to be on our guard.

Toward the end of the story, the claim is made that a "'self-described liberal troll' who creates fictional stories to try to fool conservative readers" is responsible for this particular fake news. Just wants to fuck with 'em, 'eh? Seems a wee bit idiotic to me. A lot of those jerks believe anything about Democrats, liberals, progressives, President Obama, Hillary Clinton as long as it's negative. Why on earth feed them more phony-ass encouragement or validation?

[Achilleaze]

18. republican propaganda is totally, dangerously FAKE

republican "values" are right out of the moral cesspool.

[BadgerKid]

20. headlines have become a sports event

Freedomjunkshun? Really? Sounds so GOP. Sounds like a tabloid site to me but it feels as if crafting the right headlines gets causes people to cheer for their team.

[Vinca]

21. I wonder if the DNC could file a defamation suit. It's slurring the brand.

The only way to take out Breitbart is to find a Democrat with deep pockets and sue them into oblivion. (Republicans, by the way, created that tactic.)

[turbinetree]

22. And Robert and Rebekah Mercer from Renaissance Technologies are making millions off this shit

just imagine, they support Russian operatives..................Show the pictures of the "four" democrats being led out of a federal building, there Bannon, you spineless TRAITOR.

You said yes, to working for a sexual hedonist predator and a TRAITOR, show the world the pictures, better yet when the Papadolpalos gets booked his mug shot will be the front page, right along with Manafort and Gates

Sam Clovis jerk is more than likely naming names, and I bet one donut that your on the list along with Sessions, Pence and eventually Wilbur Ross, Hope Hicks, CONaway, Kusher, Don Jr, just to name a few---------------------------


Your organization is just like this emoji...............


You should have named it freedomskunkshunamerica , or wesupporttraitors


FU

[IronLionZion]

23. So they think Democrats colluded with Russia to install Trump in office

just so we can laugh at him, or something. To show how bad he is.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. Fake title. INCORRECT. Wrong. Another site posted it, not Breitbart. EDIT IT NOW, please.

Breitbart posts enough junk without you creating the impression they are posting more.

Please edit it ASAP.

[JDC]

28. Misinformation campaign

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. NOT LBN. Does not have actual title, is not newsworthy, and is about an unremarkable site (FJs.com)

[underpants]

31. None of them are actual people. Hal LindsEy is an evangelist

[Sunlei]

32. omg! fake people on fake news, you've got to be kidding! think it's best I remove this 'prank'

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