You totally discredit yourself when you use the term " fake news."
A term you folks on the left coined and are now in a tizzy when you hear it because it's being used against your "news" outlets
more legitimately.
Thats hilarious. Guess there is no requirement for objectivity to be a mod on this site.
So you deny that the political left started the fake news hysteria?
The fake news started with the endless torrent of "Hillary has Parkinson's" and "Hillary had an affair with Yoko" ad "three million Amish mobilizing to vote for Rump" bullshit, from Macedonia or wherever it was produced. That's the original meaning of "fake news" before Rump co-opted it as the dishonest hack he is.
Being only interested in how much money they could make from bait-clicks and not having a particular interest in the actual election, these fake news mongers also output similar stories about Rump. They didn't sell, so they abandoned that course.
They didn't sell for a very simple reason --- only those dimbulbs gullible enough to buy the song and dance of a screamingly fake con artist like Rump would also be gullible enough to buy fake stories of their own confirmation bias. That's what
sold, so that's what they did, the same reason fake wrestling exists. Something with which, tellingly, Rump is also knee-deep in, in his world of fake shit.
I actually saw the "three million Amish" story posted HERE on USMB. And there were those gullibles who actually believed it, because it fit their fantasies, rationality be damned. Yet another one tried to claim that a Hillary Clinton appearance (here in North Carolina) was a
hologram. A green screen ruse. Seriously, I jumped into that thread because I know how green screens actually work.
THAT is what the term "fake news" refers to, and it's obvious why Rump co-opted it --- it was a major factor in his election and he would like that fact to go away. Solution: morph the definition into something it never was. Make people forget.
Sorry Rumpy -- "forget" is out of the question.