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In reply to the discussion: Can we have a chat about the left's fake news? [View all]Bernardo de La Paz
(48,986 posts)32. Difference betw fake news and what you are mistaking for "fake" left news:
Fake news reports made up stuff as if it were fact, without proper cautionary advisements.
Louise Mensch writes carefully with lots of cautions. Her reports are clear about what is fact and what is probability. If she writes "probably" or "almost certainly", she is warning you that it is not fact. When she depends on sources she can't name, she is clear that her sources require anonymity in that report.
Do not make FALSE EQUIVALENCY between totally fabricated stuff like the Comet Ping Pong basement and anonymously sourced Intelligence Community reports. There is no equivalency. Zero. Zip. Zilch.
Alex Jones has not made a bona fide scoop of any significance. Mensch has scooped at least once, in 2016 re FISA warrants. In time we may discover that she has scooped on other reports too.
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So? They move the message. Every site that has ads or offers to donate. Are they clickbaite then.??
mhw
Jun 2017
#44
European conservatives are a bit of a different bird than here in the states...
Wounded Bear
Jun 2017
#29
It's better to allow posts from those sites so we can hash the details out here.
pnwmom
Jun 2017
#12
LOL! In the last "Wagging chastising finger at DU" thread, I said that I had seen four chastising
Squinch
Jun 2017
#14
Does the same not apply to you about not reading threads that discuss why Mensch isn't a good source
mythology
Jun 2017
#39
No. Palmer Report is discredited for using the same methods as most other blog sites.
mhw
Jun 2017
#20
I would be much more concerned if our Congressmen or our President quoted them as sources
Mr. Ected
Jun 2017
#24
Welcome to DU. In 2016, DU was full of uncritical links to Russia Today and Fox News.
emulatorloo
Jun 2017
#26
Gosh, this is only about the 75,681st post on this very topic by low-count posters!
hatrack
Jun 2017
#27
Difference betw fake news and what you are mistaking for "fake" left news:
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2017
#32