{"id":33177,"date":"2016-11-20T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33177"},"modified":"2016-11-20T12:35:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T20:35:18","slug":"getting-rid-of-fake-news-start-with-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33177","title":{"rendered":"Getting Rid Of Fake News? Start With Fox News!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few days there has been a big furor over the spread of fake news online. Much of the criticism hinges on what impact it might have had on the election. A <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/craigsilverman\/viral-fake-election-news-outperformed-real-news-on-facebook?utm_term=.frDzQEnneW#.frDzQEnneW\" target=\"_blank\">BuzzFeed analysis<\/a><\/strong> revealed that fake news stories <em>&#8220;generated more engagement than the top stories from major news outlets&#8221;<\/em> such as the New York Times, NBC News, etc. What&#8217;s more, the study shows that Trump supporters were far more likely to be taken in by fake news than others:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Of the 20 top-performing false election stories identified in the analysis, all but three were overtly pro-Donald Trump or anti-Hillary Clinton.&#8221; [and that] The research turned up only one viral false election story from a hyperpartisan left-wing site&#8230;The other false viral election stories from hyperpartisan sites came from right-wing publishers, according to the analysis.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Social media sites are taking steps to mitigate the problem. Facebook&#8217;s Mark Zuckerberg <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-38039506\" target=\"_blank\">announced plans<\/a><\/strong> to address it saying that <em>&#8220;we take this responsibility seriously.&#8221;<\/em> However, if that&#8217;s true there is one very prominent producer of fake news that would have to be included in any purge.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News has been creating a veritable cornucopia of disinformation for most of its twenty year existence. The volume of demonstrably false stories that it publishes dwarfs any of the fake sites that BuzzFeed studied.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-politifact-lies-sept-16.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News Lies\" width=\"550\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33180\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1503997909614999\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So this might be a good time to provide some examples of why Fox News is the unchallenged leader in bullshit. These are all real headlines from Fox News:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29577\" target=\"_blank\">That Drowned Syrian Boy On The Beach Is Obama\u2019s Fault<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8181\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Campaign Processed Donation From The Kremlin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7084\" target=\"_blank\">Report: Obama Campaign Offered Jeremiah Wright Cash To Keep Quiet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8172\" target=\"_blank\">Foreign Fundraising Scandal Rocks Obama Campaign<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29853\" target=\"_blank\">Clinton\u2019s Camp Says She \u2018Could Have A Serious Meltdown&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29853\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary down in the dumps: Is Clinton about to drop out of 2016 race?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32440\" target=\"_blank\">KKK Grand Dragon Endorses Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11263\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Parole Board Frees Al Qaeda Terrorist Deemed \u2018Too Dangerous To Be Released&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30906\" target=\"_blank\">Poll: Trump Leads Big With Latinos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20226\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Danced to Avoid Clintons at Party<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7726\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Selling Amnesty For $465<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7699\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Warren Praises Communist China<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5759\" target=\"_blank\">Obama&#8217;s New Christmas Tree Tax<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Each and every one of those stories are patently false. They are not merely differences of opinion, but verifiably untrue. The question is, could any of this type of fiction have swayed the election? Who knows? But it certainly doesn&#8217;t help. And the fact that the gullibility of news consumers is slanted so heavily to the right is an alarming revelation. These types of stories may not move average voters, but Donald Trump&#8217;s voters are prime targets for such deception. Obviously they aren&#8217;t interested in truth or they wouldn&#8217;t be Trump voters (see the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30264\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Bullshitopedia<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Even President Obama took notice of this <em>&#8220;breakdown&#8221;<\/em> in the media:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;If we are not serious about facts and what\u2019s true and what\u2019s not, and particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can\u2019t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems. Then democracy will break down.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few days there has been a big furor over the spread of fake news online. Much of the criticism hinges on what impact it might have had on the election. A BuzzFeed analysis revealed that fake news stories &#8220;generated more engagement than the top stories from major news outlets&#8221; such as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,4,8],"tags":[183,1203,554,321,33],"class_list":["post-33177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-news","category-propaganda","tag-barack-obama","tag-buzzfeed","tag-donald-trump","tag-facebook","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-politifact-lies-sept-16.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-8D7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40294,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40294","url_meta":{"origin":33177,"position":0},"title":"WH Dep Press Secretary on Fox News Refuses to Deny Buzzfeed Story that Trump Told Cohen to Lie","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/18\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Thursday night saw the release of one of the most devastating stories about Donald Trump to date. 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