FAKE NEWS EXPOSED: A Service of PoliticalChat.com

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Sinking without trace: rightwing press turns on Boris Johnson
The coronavirus crisis has a formerly friendly media questioning the PM’s leadership

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...on-coronavirus

Wouldn't it be great if the reich-wing press turned against Donny!?

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Joe Rogan repeats debunked claim that ‘left-wing people’ are starting Oregon wildfires

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-oregon-fires/

I've never listened to this clown, but this should explain why the Orange Shitstain wants him to moderate the debates. He sounds like a real asshole.

[Pio1980]

The US ideals concept is not a consideration with these folk as much as control of the country is a conduit to absolute power, the point of unaccountable unlimited authoritarianism

[donquixote99]

"The Democrats are worse!" will be over the gates of the new Auschwitz.

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Anatomy of a faux scandal: Right-wing media uses misleading local story to suggest coronavirus cover-up

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/media...dia/index.html

If you don't get your news from right-wing media, it is likely that you haven't heard about this story. But for those who do rely on outlets such as Fox News or Breitbart for information, a scandal of towering proportions has been brewing in Nashville, Tennessee.

Let me walk you through what happened: On Wednesday, Fox 17 in Nashville, a Sinclair-owned station, published what sounded like an explosive report. The story alleged that the mayor's office covered up data showing low spread of the coronavirus at restaurants and bars. It essentially suggested that city officials did not disclose the info so that they could justify keeping local businesses shut down.

The story -— since taken down — reverberated through the right-wing media universe. It was featured on sites like Breitbart, The Daily Wire and The Gateway Pundit, and ultimately made its way up to major figures like Donald Trump Jr., who tweeted, "The Dem Mayor of Nashville KNOWINGLY LIED ABOUT COVID DATA to justify shutting down bars & restaurants, killing countless jobs & small businesses in the process. Everyone involved should face jail time." On Fox News, Tucker Carlson led his Thursday night program with it. "CORONAVIRUS COVER-UP IN NASHVILLE," the chyron on his program blared.

The problem? The crux of the story was simply not true...

... which is exactly what reich-wing media does, time and time again. Trumpkin fools, who ONLY get their "news" from such disreputable outlets, then spread the lies far and wide, believing every word as gospel. Sad!

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FAUX “NEWS” WOULD RATHER NOT ADMIT TRUMP IS A GIANT CROOK
A massive New York Times report on Trump’s tax fraud was too big for even Fox News to ignore. Instead, they brought on Don Jr. to play defense.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020...ds-trump-taxes

It is not uncommon for the Trump–allied media to sidestep damning new reports about the president, but with the Times tax story logging four million engagements by Monday morning and leading network and cable shows throughout the day, even the most sycophantic pro–Trump figures have found it more difficult to brush aside. So far, Fox isn’t going that route, but is instead carefully framing various segments and interviews about the investigation, possibly because it can only fill so much airtime with pieces on an award-winning rat in Cambodia, a pro-troops, first responders, and police themed BBQ chain opening their 96th location, and B-roll footage of South Dakota’s governor riding a horse—all of which aired in the aftermath of the Times report. Still, that reality certainly won’t stop some from shrugging it all off.

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Faux "News" Lobotomizes Its ‘Brain Room,’ Cuts Fact-Based Journalism
‘NOT INTERESTED IN FACTS’
Staffers said the recent layoffs gutting Fox News’ fact-checking team were a victory for the network’s right-wing opinion shows and further cemented its status as “state media.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-ne...sed-journalism

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You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Fucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Faux's Lawyers

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/91774...ay-fox-s-lawye

Where Trumpkin idiots get their "news". All of it fake, of course, and not to be believed, per the lawyers at Faux "News".

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Judge Orders Twitter To Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/07/92128...ich-conspiracy

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Facebook bans marketing firm running ‘troll farm’ for pro-Trump Hitler Youth group
A Washington Post investigation found that teenagers had been recruited to pepper social media with conservative messages.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/techn...p-youth-group/

Facebook said Thursday that it will permanently ban from its platform an Arizona-based marketing firm running what experts described as a domestic "troll farm” following an investigation of the deceptive behavior prompted by a Washington Post article last month.

The firm, Rally Forge, was “working on behalf" of Turning Point Action, an affiliate of Turning Point USA, the prominent conservative youth organization based in Phoenix, Facebook concluded. The inquiry led to the removal of 200 accounts and 55 pages on Facebook, as well as 76 Instagram accounts — many of them operated by teenagers in the Phoenix area.