FAKE NEWS EXPOSED: A Service of PoliticalChat.com

[Chicks]

As election looms, a network of mysterious ‘pink slime’ local news outlets nearly triples in size

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/as-elec...es-in-size.php

THE RUN-UP TO THE 2020 November elections in the US has produced new networks of shadowy, politically backed “local news websites” designed to promote partisan talking points and collect user data. In December 2019, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism reported on an intricately linked network of 450 sites purporting to be local or business news publications. New research from the Tow Center shows the size of that network has increased almost threefold over the course of 2020, to over 1,200 sites.

Identifying these new sites is a result of further analysis of the closely linked entities with conservative ties illustrated in Figure 1 (below). The Tow Center focused predominantly on Metric Media, Franklin Archer, Local Government Information Services (LGIS), and Locality Labs. Both Metric Media and Franklin Archer claim to be the largest local news provider in the US, though many of their sites have low visibility in both search and social media.

Over 90 percent of their stories are algorithmically generated using publicly available data sets or by repurposing stories from legitimate sources. In the remaining stories that have an authentic byline there is often a conservative bent. As reported by the Lansing State Journal and The Guardian, this includes articles about voter fraud using data from the Heritage Foundation, negative pieces about elected Democratic representatives, and stories supporting conservative candidates. This low-cost automated story generation has come to be known as pink slime journalism. In addition to the hundreds of titles that ape the look and feel of local news, our research has detected new sites in this network that address single subjects, appeal to religious orientation, and focus on business news.

Slimy conservative scumbags.

[Chicks]

Facebook Bans Holocaust Denial, Reversing Earlier Policy

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/12/92300...earlier-policy

About time, Zuck. Now if we can just get them to ban Repubes, who spread this stuff, and who constantly lie without compunction.

[Chicks]

Trump TV - The Lincoln Project

FOX is Trump TV

https://youtu.be/9r6hgCw1KYY

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Trump TV - The Lincoln Project

FOX is Trump TV

https://youtu.be/9r6hgCw1KYY

Whatever loophole that allows them to still be on the air needs to be closed.

[nailer]

That would be The First Loophole.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by nailer

That would be The First Loophole.

Even loopholes have loopholes. Just because the law doesn't penalize someone for peeing in the pool doesn't mean they should be allowed to.

[Chicks]

The Australians are trying to shut Murdoch down. The former PM's petition shut down the website there was so much traffic to it.

Kevin Rudd @MrKRudd

Australians have watched with growing anger at what the Murdoch media monopoly is doing to our country. A cancer on democracy.

Today I am launching a national petition to establish a #MurdochRoyalCommission.

If you value our democracy, please sign here: https://aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1938

3:42 PM · Oct 9, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

[Chicks]

Faux "News" portrayed it as one of the biggest scandals in American history. Then it fell apart

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/media...ate/index.html

Faux "News" is Fake News.

[Chicks]

US intelligence analysts feared Russia would dump hacked and forged Burisma emails targeting Biden as an 'October surprise,' report says

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-i...rprise-2020-10

...which, of course, is exactly what they did, with help from the Murdochs’ tabloid NY Post.

[Chicks]

Donny's fake new Biden scandal has a deeper purpose. Bannon revealed it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...n-revealed-it/

The single most important fact about the laughably weak new scandal that President Trump is pushing about Hunter Biden and his emails is that we’re now seeing lots and lots of media stories about Hunter Biden and his emails.

While Trump and his propagandists would surely prefer to have a more compelling scandal to tout, the thinness of this new gruel is largely secondary. What matters is the mere fact that many mainstream outlets are running articles with the words “Biden” and “emails” in them.

We know this, because Stephen K. Bannon has already laid out the playbook we’re seeing here at length.