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ColemanMaskell

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3. Maybe Bipartisan Report? Also, satire is often leftish and is considered fake news

Reply to The_Casual_Observer (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 26, 2017, 10:55 PM

Mar 2017

Check out this link
http://www.fakenewschecker.com/

It lists 376 fake or satire news sites, that is, sites that they deem not credible

Satire is considered fake news because some people mistake it for actual news.
Borowitz is a good example.

The list only seems to cover US sites, as far as I noticed.

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60 Minutes on "Fake News" [View all] tomhagen Mar 2017 OP

Why they would dignify that bastard The_Casual_Observer Mar 2017 #1

Maybe Bipartisan Report? Also, satire is often leftish and is considered fake news ColemanMaskell Mar 2017 #3

No it was a gratuitous remark so as to sound "balanced" The_Casual_Observer Mar 2017 #6

Correct J_William_Ryan Mar 2017 #4

Just watched this grinning parasite on 60 Minutes.....and they both do a disservice to our country Hulk Mar 2017 #2

Political Satire is generally left-leaning and can be mistaken for real news - and sometimes is ColemanMaskell Mar 2017 #5

I take your point... Hulk Mar 2017 #7

Not Colbert, but things like Borowitz occasionally get quoted here (by mistake I'm sure). However -- ColemanMaskell Mar 2017 #10

No tazkcmo Mar 2017 #8

It was pretty funny when SNL had Bryan Cranston as Walter White as a Trump nominee for drug czar ColemanMaskell Mar 2017 #11

Again, it's not fake news. tazkcmo Mar 2017 #13

It's clear Scott Pelley is no Mike Wallace Seasider Mar 2017 #9

Yeah the false equivalency is a persistent problem and it damaged us during the campaign ColemanMaskell Mar 2017 #12