Fake News

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Misinformation took over social media after the Key Bridge collapse. Why is this now a regular occurrence — and what can be done to stop it?
Conspiracy theories used to be confined to dark corners of the internet. Now, they muddy conversations around news events on mainstream social media platforms.

Summary: We're screwed.

LOL

To no one's surprise it took CPF about ten minutes to go full wingnut.

Yeah, we're screwed as long as they have air.

https://conservativepoliticalforum.com/ ... 024-video/

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Misinformation took over social media after the Key Bridge collapse. Why is this now a regular occurrence — and what can be done to stop it?
Conspiracy theories used to be confined to dark corners of the internet. Now, they muddy conversations around news events on mainstream social media platforms.

Summary: We're screwed.

LOL

To no one's surprise it took CPF about ten minutes to go full wingnut.

Yeah, we're screwed as long as they have air.

https://conservativepoliticalforum.com/ ... 024-video/

When we were much younger these idiots didn’t vote and they were only allowed speech through the tabloids in the supermarket checkout aisles.

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When we were much younger these idiots didn’t vote and they were only allowed speech through the tabloids in the supermarket checkout aisles.

And somebody apparently allowed them to breed.

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When we were much younger these idiots didn’t vote and they were only allowed speech through the tabloids in the supermarket checkout aisles.

And somebody apparently allowed them to breed.

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Cons are so very dishonest and gullible. They'll even spoof a D-Day ceremony in Normandy

Also anti-abortion demo and mayo

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Right-wing media reckoning: Some outlets pay a price after spreading 2020 election misinformation

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Ex-GOP Comms Director Unleashes Her Truth About 'MAGA World' After Verdict Hoax
Tara Setmayer let loose on MSNBC following a debunked Facebook post about Trump's hush money trial that conservatives ran with anyway.

... Mohyeldin had noted how conservatives completely bought a Facebook entry supposedly from the cousin of a juror who claimed that Trump would be convicted before the verdict was announced. Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw the trial, shared the post with Trump’s legal team and prosecutors.

In a cynical belief that the fix was in, Fox News’ Sean Hannity called for a mistrial, and other right-wing personalities cried foul.

Mohyeldin predicted that Trump and surrogates will continue to promote the random post as evidence of injustice, even though the author was a self-avowed “professional shitposter” who said they were merely trolling.

The conspiracy theory will live on for Trump loyalists, Mohyeldin pointed out....

“Trump and his acolytes can continue to do this, but the average American independent moderate voters, they’re sick of it and not comfortable voting for a convicted felon, nor should they,” she continued.



Setmayer was the communications director for former Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). She later renounced her Republican affiliation in 2020 over the “malignancy of Trumpism.”

Cultists

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Trump’s Son Just Got CAUGHT Red-Handed

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Alex Jones' Bankruptcy Trustee Plans To Shutter Infowars And ‘Liquidate Its Inventory’
It’s the first time the trustee has said publicly he plans to close down Infowars.

Bye-bye

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Alex Jones' Bankruptcy Trustee Plans To Shutter Infowars And ‘Liquidate Its Inventory’
It’s the first time the trustee has said publicly he plans to close down Infowars.

Bye-bye

But, but what about his first amendment rights?

[O Really]

Alex Jones' Bankruptcy Trustee Plans To Shutter Infowars And ‘Liquidate Its Inventory’
It’s the first time the trustee has said publicly he plans to close down Infowars.

Bye-bye

But, but what about his first amendment rights?

I recognize the sarcasm, but you know he or somebody on his behalf is going to mistakenly whine about that. Pretty sure the answer is that the First may give him the right to express his, ummm, "opinion" but doesn't guarantee him a media platform to say it from.

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Alex Jones' Bankruptcy Trustee Plans To Shutter Infowars And ‘Liquidate Its Inventory’
It’s the first time the trustee has said publicly he plans to close down Infowars.

Bye-bye

But, but what about his first amendment rights?

I recognize the sarcasm, but you know he or somebody on his behalf is going to mistakenly whine about that. Pretty sure the answer is that the First may give him the right to express his, ummm, "opinion" but doesn't guarantee him a media platform to say it from.

That and the reality that first amendment rights are not absolute.

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I recognize the sarcasm, but you know he or somebody on his behalf is going to mistakenly whine about that. Pretty sure the answer is that the First may give him the right to express his, ummm, "opinion" but doesn't guarantee him a media platform to say it from.

That and the reality that first amendment rights are not absolute.

Related, Fake News and GQP crybabies lose bigly:

US Supreme Court won't curb Biden administration social media contacts

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to impose limits on the way President Joe Biden's administration may communicate with social media platforms, rejecting a challenge made on free speech grounds to how officials encouraged the removal of posts deemed misinformation, including about elections and COVID.

The justices, in a 6-3 ruling, overturned a lower court's 2023 decision that various federal officials likely violated the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, which protects against governmental abridgment of free speech, in a case brought by the states of Missouri and Louisiana and five individuals.

The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had issued an injunction constraining such contacts by the administration.

... The justices also are expected in the coming days to rule on the legality of Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas intended to restrain social media companies from curbing content that their platforms deem objectionable.

Abbott and Fascist DerSantis detest business freedom.

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LOL

To no one's surprise it took CPF about ten minutes to go full wingnut.

Yeah, we're screwed as long as they have air.

https://conservativepoliticalforum.com/ ... 024-video/

To no one's surprise.

A Bugatti car, a first lady and the fake stories aimed at Americans

A network of Russia-based websites masquerading as local American newspapers is pumping out fake stories as part of an AI-powered operation that is increasingly targeting the US election, a BBC investigation can reveal.

A former Florida police officer who relocated to Moscow is one of the key figures behind it.

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... A story which originated on DC Weekly, claiming that Ukrainian officials bought yachts with US military aid, was repeated by several members of Congress, including Senator J D Vance and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Mr Vance is one of a handful of politicians mentioned as a potential vice-presidential running mate for Donald Trump....

Figures. MAGAts and other democracy-hating RWers are sooo gullible!

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Republicans Kick Off Convention Pushing Myth Of Trump’s ‘Best Ever’ Economy

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... Summary: We're screwed.

LOL

To no one's surprise it took CPF about ten minutes to go full wingnut.

Yeah, we're screwed as long as they have air.

https://conservativepoliticalforum.com/ ... 024-video/

RWers are SOOO gullible:

Sham U.S. news site spreads false claims about Kamala Harris

If not also the source at the least Russians amplified the LIE

I did a little bit of scanning for this on CPF and LNF without success, but am hampered since guests can't use the search features.

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Kamala Harris’s ex-boyfriend hits out over doctored photo of her with Sean Combs
Montel Williams, whom the vice-president briefly dated, speaks out after fake image showed her with rapper instead of him



... A social media post from a Right-wing account claimed to show Ms Harris grinning and linking arms with the rapper, who was charged with sex trafficking and racketeering on Tuesday.

However, the photograph actually shows the vice president with Montel Williams, a television host who she briefly dated in the early 2000s....

Williams responded: “Here they go again with ‘all black people look alike…’”


The genuine picture featured Montel Williams, the talk show host whom Ms Harris briefly dated

... In fact, the unedited photograph shows Ms Harris with Williams and his daughter at an event in California to raise money for research into multiple sclerosis in 2001....

Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, has previously posted fake AI images of Taylor Swift endorsing him on his Truth Social account. The Shake It Off singer later endorsed Ms Harris, after citing her concerns about the doctored photographs....

, childish and gullible RWers.

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They just lie and lie:

CNN Fact-Checker Spots 'Most Egregious Example Yet' Of A Deceptive Donald Trump Ad
Daniel Dale flagged the "incredibly obvious" spin.

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TRE45QN and the Russians - peas in a pod.

The U.S. has a new strategy for combating foreign election interference, but will it work?

... In an internal memo titled “Guerrilla Media Campaign in the United States,” organizers of the propaganda project outlined how to plant false stories through manufactured social media accounts and news sites.

“In order for this work to be effective, you need to use a minimum of fake news and a maximum of realistic information,” the secret memo said. “At the same time, you should continuously repeat that this is what is really happening, but the official media will never tell you about it or show it to you."

The instructions were part of what the Kremlin-backed team called “Project Good Old USA,” a concerted campaign to spread false information across social media to promote Donald Trump’s candidacy in the 2024 election, according to U.S. officials and court documents....

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Russia, again:

Russia tried to use the LA wildfires to spread anti-Ukraine propaganda

Pro-Kremlin social media accounts and outlets have been spreading a baseless narrative that mansions belonging to Ukrainian military officers burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires. The claim has been viewed more than one million times on X, the social media platform once known as Twitter. Researchers who study Russian influence operations say it is part of the Kremlin's larger campaign to discredit the Ukrainian government and undermine U.S. support for Ukraine.

"It is the latest in a long string of assertions by Russian officials, media, and the pro-Kremlin online ecosystem that Ukrainian officials are corrupt and use foreign aid money to enrich themselves." Léa Ronzaud, a senior investigator at research firm Graphika, told NPR in an email....

The Ukrainian general story first emerged on a pro-Russian Telegram channel four days after the fires started in Los Angeles....

NPR has not obtained evidence that any Ukrainian generals owned homes in Los Angeles that were destroyed by the fires. The Ukrainian government denied to NPR that any general's homes were affected by the fire.

The next day, an influencer using the handle @OlgaBazova, who has previously echoed narratives pushed by known Russian influence networks, shared the story in English with its 700,000 followers on X. The account's bio describes itself as "specializing in humoristic geopolitical analytics, exposing hypocrisy and satire."



Later in the evening, Robert "Buzz" Patterson, an American conservative influencer with 400,000 followers on X, repeated the claim, seemingly without irony, in a post that has been viewed over a million times, according to X's data.



When contacted by NPR on X about the post, @OlgaBazova responded with a link to a Russian-language article that cited the original Telegram claim about the mansions.

Patterson did not respond to messages from NPR asking why he had posted the claim.

Coward. RWers are so stupid, gullible and evil.

The story that initially circulated was debunked by professional fact checkers from Greece and the United States. Both @OlgaBazova and Patterson's posts received user-generated community notes on X citing the Greek fact check.

... In September, the U.S. Justice Department indicted two employees of Russian state broadcaster RT in a scheme to funnel nearly $10 million to right-wing American influencers who posted videos opposing aid to Ukraine, praising now President-elect Donald Trump, and criticizing Democrats....

Other Russian Telegram channels are also spreading false or unverified narratives about the southern California fires and the government's response, as well as amplifying critiques from Americans including the president-elect's son, Donald Trump, Jr., Andy Carvin of the Atlantic Council's DFRLab told NPR in an email. The Russian news site Pravda, which has been associated with prior Russian information operations, then translates and distributes the Telegram posts.

"Over the last week, Pravda has published at least 350 stories of this type [based on Telegram messages about the fires], based on our initial content analysis of the site," Carvin said....

Putin. Useful idiot influencers. Junior, etc.