Ummmmmmm, so give us a link that supports whatever conspiracy you're spouting.
Sure thing sweetcheeks. Here are just a very, very few..... let your brain do some searching and you will be amazed by what you find. Of course, you have to have a brain first. So far we have no evidence of that.
December 1: The 27-Cent Foreclosure
At
Politico on December 1, Lorraine Woellert published a shocking essay claiming that Trump’s pick for secretary of the Treasury, Steve Mnuchin, had overseen a company that “foreclosed on a 90-year-old woman after a 27-cent payment error.” According to Woellert: “After confusion over insurance coverage, a OneWest subsidiary sent [Ossie] Lofton a bill for $423.30. She sent a check for $423. The bank sent another bill, for 30 cents. Lofton, 90, sent a check for three cents. In November 2014, the bank foreclosed.”
The story received widespread coverage, being shared nearly 17,000 times on Facebook.
The New York Times’s Steven Rattner shared it on Twitter (
1,300 retweets), as did NBC News’s Brad Jaffy (
1,200 retweets), the AP’s David Beard (
1,900 retweets) and many others.
The problem? The central scandalous claims of Woellert’s article were simply untrue. As the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Ted Frank
pointed out, the woman in question was never foreclosed on, and never lost her home. Moreover, “It wasn’t Mnuchin’s bank that brought the suit.”
Politico eventually corrected these serious and glaring errors. But the damage was done: the story had been repeated by numerous media outlets including
Huffington Post (shared 25,000 times on Facebook), the
New York Post,
Vanity Fair, and many others.
January 20: The Nonexistent Climate Change Website ‘Purge’
Also on the day of the inauguration,
New York Times writer Coral Davenport published an article on the
Times’s website whose headline claimed that the Trump administration had “
purged” any “climate change references” from the White House website. Within the article, Davenport acknowledged that the “purge” (or what she also called “online deletions”) was “not unexpected” but rather part of a routine turnover of digital authority between administrations.
To call this action a “purge” was thus at the height of intellectual dishonesty: Davenport was styling the whole thing as a kind of digital book-burn rather than a routine part of American government. But of course that was almost surely the point. The inflammatory headline was probably
the only thing that most people read of the article, doubtlessly leading many readers (the article was shared nearly 50,000 times on Facebook) to believe something that simply wasn’t true.
January 29: The Reuters Account Hoax
Following the Quebec City mosque massacre, the Daily Beast
published a story that purported to identify the two shooters who had perpetrated the crime. The problem? The story’s source was a Reuters parody account on Twitter. Incredibly, nobody at the Daily Beast thought to check the source to any appreciable degree.
February 2: Renaming Black History Month
At the start of February, which is Black History Month in the United States, Trump proclaimed the month “National African American History Month.” Many outlets tried to spin the story in a bizarre way:
TMZ claimed that a “senior administration official” said that Trump believed the term “black” to be outdated. “Every U.S. president since 1976 has designated February as Black History Month,” wrote TMZ.
BET wrote the same thing.
The problem? It’s just not true. President Obama, for example, declared February “National African American History Month” as well. TMZ
quickly updated their piece to fix their embarrassing error.
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