International "Fake News!" Fascinating Case Study on How Fake News Spreads, And How Fake News Insists Everything Else is In Fact the Real Fake News

[Deleted member 585708]

Southport riot: How a LinkedIn post helped spark unrest - BBC tracks its spread

The social media post was quickly taken down, but screenshots were viewed millions of times.

www.bbc.co.uk

CAPS:
1) Man whose kids were not present at time of Southport attack but wanted to be claims on LinkedIn his kids were there when a "migrant" attacked and killed multiple children

2) Short police statement reads: “armed police have detained a male and seized a knife”. In the absence of official information, bullshit like the above is taken as gospel by non-journalists on Twitter.
3) An Indian "news" account pretending to be UK-based and that is "verified" on Twitter "confirms" a migrant was the murderer - despite doing no further research or asking questions because QUICK!

4) Far right group Britain First's leader amplifies the misinformation now being amplified by weirdos in India, although doesn't claim fake knowledge at least, but also: without any knowledge, obviously.

5) Reform Party (a popular right wing party in the UK) activist Nicholas Lissack now pretends he has "confirmed the authenticity of the post made by a father of two", which sounds important except that initial post was a lie and contained complete conjecture.

6) Bernie Spofforth, a known misinformation purveyor who has been banned by the platform before, makes up a name from thin air: Ali Al-Shakati. Merseyside Police respond the next day to say that is not the correct name, but who can trust police over a known purveyor of misinformation, amirite?

7) Laurence Fox, a former actor and head of the irrelevant "Reclaim Party", shares both posts from Bernie and the original liar, Eddie Murray, writing "close the borders" - implying, falsely, that the borders had anything to do with this incident.

8) Things spiral out of control with the right wing base whipped into a fury and blaming the boats for bringing a mass murderer of children to our shores. Ali Al Shakati is continually blamed despite not being the perpetrator. Those duped by the spread of viral misinformation call all those outlets spreading the actual truth "fake news". These clowns believe everything has been fact-checked because it does indeed all link back to a genuine (but critically error-strewn) first post on LinkedIn. We're now going to burn hotels full of migrants who had nothing to do with this incident, and Al Shakati will probably get lynched - if he exists, who knows.
9) At no point has the original liar apologize. He has instead said "I'm only posting what others were saying". LOL.

So there we have it. Liars, charlatans, "verified" fake journalists who don't do any actual journalism, and people who should be responsible but aren't managed to whip up a BLM-like movement based by exploiting a horrific incident where children died, while pretending they care that those children died.

Of course the butthurt dribblers on here were full of: "but he's still a migrant" like that makes any of this story make sense.

And people on here still get their news from X and believe the MSM is less reliable than... this shit.

Anyway. I found it interesting. I can't believe how people fall for this shit time in, time out.

 

[Spam On Rye]

OK glowie.

 

[Deleted member 585708]

OK glowie.

Had to Google that one lol

 

[Captain Tenneal]

Nothing is real anymore

 

[HOLA]

The people that fall for actual fake news want it to be true. They're just salivating, waiting to be served some red meat. All that it takes is to write it, and they'll dig in, no questions asked.

They accuse everything else of being fake news, so in the end it just becomes a muddled game of "he said, she said," and people without media literacy can't tell the difference.

 

[Deleted member 585708]

The people that fall for actual fake news want it to be true. They're just salivating, waiting to be served some red meat. All that it takes is to write it, and they'll dig in, no questions asked.

They accuse everything else of being fake news, so in the end it just becomes a muddled game of "he said, she said," and people without media literacy can't tell the difference.

This.

I've long felt that the real issue facing these guys is that they simply cannot research - which is probably why they have a built in hatred for educated people who actually can because they've taken the time to learn how to.

 

[chardog]

Now do Jussie smollette

 

[Deleted member 585708]

Now do Jussie smollette

I can't really do it justice.

I'm aware it's a hoax that many people bought into - across the political spectrum, mind - but it turned out he'd staged the attack and was lying.

I'm sure hack accounts on Twitter did embellish that story and make up details, but I'm sorry, I wasn't following that story at the time to further compare/contrast that with the research the BBC did on this one.

 

[CantCucktheTuck]

The people that fall for actual fake news want it to be true. They're just salivating, waiting to be served some red meat. All that it takes is to write it, and they'll dig in, no questions asked.

They accuse everything else of being fake news, so in the end it just becomes a muddled game of "he said, she said," and people without media literacy can't tell the difference.

lol goddamn the irony on this guy.

 

[Sweater of AV]

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

This.

I've long felt that the real issue facing these guys is that they simply cannot research - which is probably why they have a built in hatred for educated people who actually can because they've taken the time to learn how to.

You mean credentialed people, not educated people right?

 

[EndlessCritic]

Republicans float conspiracy theory that Biden won't be on the ballot

The mostly unfounded chatter includes talk that Democrats secretly want to replace him with former first lady Michelle Obama or California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

www.nbcnews.com

Republicans float a quiet conspiracy theory that Biden won't be on the ballot​

President Joe Biden announced in April that he is running for re-election. His campaign and its fundraising entities have a combined $91 million in the bank, and he has hired key political staffers to help helm his 2024 re-election campaign.

He has no serious opposition that threatens to kick him off his party's ballot.

So he will obviously be the Democratic nominee for president, right? Right?

Though no incumbent president has declined to seek a second term since Lyndon Johnson in 1969, there is an unfounded conversation among a faction on the political right that goes something like this: Democratic power brokers will intervene at the last minute to replace a weakened 80-year-old Biden with someone else as the party’s nominee.

“So here’s the scenario that I think is perhaps the most likely and most dangerous,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said on his podcast last month. “In August of 2024, the Democrat kingmakers jettison Joe Biden and parachute in Michelle Obama.”

“Right now the thinking among Republicans that I know is that he may be the initial nominee and they swap out somebody else at the [Democratic] convention,” said Cynthia Yockey, a 69-year-old from Fairfield, Iowa, who voted for Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2020. “Because that will let the real leaders of the party, of the Democratic Party, to make the decision instead of the people.”

The idea, centered largely on the thought that Biden is too old and not sharp enough mentally, is that there's a secret plan to replace Biden due to his health or other reasons by amorphous illuminati-type forces within the Democratic Party. It is not a mainstream thought within the Republican Party, but it has maintained a persistent foothold among a relevant chunk of the GOP base taking their cues from some party officials who continue to toy with the idea.

"I feel like they’re grooming someone, and we all know it’s not Kamala [Harris]," Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, told the "Ruthless" podcast last week. "So I think they [Democrats] have a backup plan because every time I listen to the current president speak, I’m like, 'Is this getting harder?'"

Kevin Munoz, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, replied that “Republicans peddling blatantly false conspiracy theories is nothing new — it’s easier than telling the truth about their election-denying, abortion-banning, and Social Security-cutting platform. These sources would also have you believe we faked the moon landing and that Tupac is hanging out with Elvis on an island somewhere in the Caribbean."

 

[Deleted member 585708]

You mean credentialed people, not educated people right?

Educated people who have had a further education and learned the art of study and research.

Anyone who understands research isn't just spotting a few oddities and correlations.

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

Educated people who have had a further education and learned the art of study and research.

People did those things long before college was this widespread. Yes, they educated themselves, got educated by others...

The brahmins can be stunningly wrong like anyone else.

 

[Deleted member 585708]

People did those things long before college was this widespread. Yes, they educated themselves, got educated by others...

The brahmins can be stunningly wrong like anyone else.

Everyone can be wrong.

But you can minimise the likelihood, relatively speaking, and the rise of the "university of life" "do your research" crew has been an embarrassment to society.

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

Everyone can be wrong.

But you can minimise the likelihood, relatively speaking, and the rise of the "university of life" "do your research" crew has been an embarrassment to society.

How many billions did they blow in the ME?

Did they crash the economy?


I could minimize the likelihood with college in the 60s when 25% of professors had a divergent ideology and information was not as widespread.

You do know that academics embarrassed themselves with their bias and close mindedness every day for the last 10 years.

 

[Berserker13]

 

[Long Dark Blues]

The masses all fall for it, but never The War Room's intellectuals.

There's never been one instance of that on here.

 

[Seano]

lol goddamn the irony on this guy.

The lack of self awareness on the left is something to see.

 

[lsa]

Nothing is real anymore

just wait until you learn about Santa..