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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > (((FAKE))) Real Journalism Discussion
 
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Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
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Murder She Twote posted:

The manufactured "fake news" narrative is a power grab by HRC and salty liberal losers to attempt to censor the internet, while at the same time bolstering and empowering right-wing distrust of the mainstream media. They should refer to the first amendment.

Fake news is basically being created by teenagers in foreign countries to spam through Facebook so they can get the revenue from clickthroughs from Google. Getting 60 grand a year for posting poo poo to Facebook goes a long way in Macedonia.

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The most successful post BuzzFeed News found from a Macedonian site is based on a story from a fake news website. The headline on the story from ConservativeState.com was “Hillary Clinton In 2013: ‘I Would Like To See People Like Donald Trump Run For Office; They’re Honest And Can’t Be Bought.’” The post is a week old and has racked up an astounding 480,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook. (To put that into perspective, the New York Times’ exclusive story that revealed Donald Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns generated a little more than 175,000 Facebook interactions in a month.)

Remember, part of the reason why fake news on Facebook got way the gently caress more prevalent is because Zuckerberg fired the entire team responsible for curating the sidebar trending news.

Party Plane Jones has issued a correction as of 16:35 on Dec 11, 2016

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Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
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Pakistan threatened Israel with nuclear war because fake news said Israel would destroy Pakistan should they move troops to Syria.

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A fake news article led to gunfire at a Washington pizzeria three weeks ago. Now it seems that another fake news story has prompted the defense minister of Pakistan to threaten to go nuclear.

The defense minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, wrote a saber-rattling Twitter post directed at Israel on Friday after a false report — which the minister apparently believed — that Israel had threatened Pakistan with nuclear weapons. Both countries have nuclear arsenals.

“Israeli def min threatens nuclear retaliation presuming pak role in Syria against Daesh,” the minister wrote on his official Twitter account, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. “Israel forgets Pakistan is a Nuclear state too.”

Mr. Asif appeared to be reacting to a fake news article published on awdnews.com.

That story, with the typo-laden headline “Israeli Defense Minister: If Pakistan send ground troops to Syria on any pretext, we will destroy this country with a nuclear attack,” appeared on the website on Dec. 20, alongside articles with headlines like “Clinton is staging a military coup against Trump.”

The fake story about Israel even misidentified the country’s defense minister, attributing quotations to a former minister, Moshe Yaalon. Israel’s current minister of defense is Avigdor Lieberman.

The Israeli Defense Ministry responded on Twitter to say the report was fictitious.

“The statement attributed to fmr Def Min Yaalon re Pakistan was never said,” the ministry wrote in Twitter post directed at Mr. Asif. The Israeli ministry added in a second post: "Reports referred to by the Pakistani Def Min are entirely false.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/24/world/asia/pakistan-israel-khawaja-asif-fake-news-nuclear.html
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