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[Chicks]

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.

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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.

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That would be The First Loophole.