If it wasn’t for fake news, there’d be no news at all.
Larry, a 71-year-old retired insurance broker and Donald Trump fan from Alabama, wouldn’t be likely to run into the liberal Emma, a 25-year-old graphic designer from New York City, on social media — even if they were both real.
Each is a figment of BBC reporter Marianna Spring’s imagination. She created five fake Americans and opened social media accounts for them, part of an attempt to illustrate how disinformation spreads on sites like Facebook, Twitter and TikTok despite efforts to stop it, and how that impacts American politics.
And they weren’t stereotypes at all.
There is no truth in Pravda, and no news in Izvestia.
,,,and neither at the BBC.
In Britain, you have to pay 160 pounds annually for a “TV License” to watch the BBC. They send “inspectors” to your house if you don’t cough up.
“Pew Research Center in the U.S.”
this pew research center?
https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/news-habits-media/media-society/misinformation/
who want government to do what they propose to attack those they disagree with
I’m surprised they’re being honest about it.
I’m not surprised there will be no repercussions.
How does misinformation spread? Our media think they are experts on this, and they are, but not in the way they suppose.
The recent trend to incorporate statements of opinion as fact (“Trump continued to spread the lie that …”) is very Soviet in its style and inspiration. When they go one step further and say “which he knew to be false,” they are just tossing in the towel of objectivity altogether. I’m sure Donald Trump believes the 2020 election was stolen through a variety of means, and so do half of Americans (at least, maybe two thirds but some like the idea). I can recognize the difference between opinion and fact, but you would have to be pretty thick to imagine there is no evidence for fraud in U.S. elections. Many believe that fraud in Illinois and one or two other states gave JFK his narrow election victory over Richard Nixon in 1960. So it has been a thing for quite a long time. There was no barrier to belief in the concept when Bush 43 won his two terms. I can’t really picture a mainstream media person saying “and Al Gore (John Kerry) continued to spread the lie that his opponent had won through fraud, even though he knows this is not true.”
There is fraud, and there is brainwashing. Either way, the WEF can get their stooges into power all over the world these days. Money talks. And those who take the money lie as instructed. Those who would not are never anywhere near the scene of these crimes anyway, so there won’t be much potential for whistleblowers or truth tellers. As the lefties like to say, “they shared their truth” which simply means they stated their opinion. I wonder when they will start to make up sports news too because the news and weather segments are contaminated. I suppose that process has started with the spin on transgendered athletes. In the future, I imagine hearing “Lions were awarded a win over Stampeders on the basis of sustainability, social credit scores, and popularity with diverse minority groups.” They won’t even play the game at some point, they will just file profiles and mission statements.
I think they are already playing the game. Didn’t the NHL appoint a diversity officer of some kind?
Good investigative journalism by the non-partisan BBC. Thank you, Marianna Spring.
Truth is now misinformation, I will continue spreading misinformation.
11th of Never
As Kate wrote: I don’t believe in karma. I really don’t.
But I was just thinking, if JFK didn’t obtain a fraudulent victory he wouldn’t have been convertible riding in Dallas.