I don’t get this response. Yes, a hostile nation exploited one of our weaknesses. Shouldn’t you be maybe a little concerned that our weaknesses are so obvious and easily exploited?
What’s the fix? I mean the weakness is the uneducated and uncritically thinking American mind. How do you plan on fixing that? Real education reform? Voting rights for those who can demonstrate reasoning skills? Perhaps using the electoral college as intended?
The WaPo article labels PropOrNot “a nonpartisan collection of researchers …” but here is their Twitter account and looking back through their history, “non-partisan” is not the word that comes to mind. They look like Democrat Party activists to me, but they’ve chosen to remain anonymous, so it’s hard to know for certain. I’m filing this WaPo story under #FakeNews.
Didn’t WikiLeaks expose Washington Post as just one of the many parts of the vast left-wing conspiracy and basically being in cahoots with DNC?
This story itself could be described as a fake news story. The “experts” that identified the sites are an anonymous group. The main thing that lands you on the McCarthyite “List” is opposition to US foreign policy.
Americans don’t need help losing faith in media, political institutions, or democracy. We can do that on our own, thanks.
Now that it’s in the Washington Post, the pundits are free to regurgitate this disinformation far wand wide. Chilling indeed.
Greenwald? Probably fake news.
I like the idea that Twitter is one of our national weaknesses. Puts Ashton Kutcher in perspective.
Congress will have to craft a law at least making a civil penalty for deliberately faked news.
Errors in journalism will happen and are understandable. Bias in a story is to be expected.
A news story based on a complete and total lie is different. Especially one that’s meant to manipulate public opinion. That can’t be tolerated.
Journalism can’t be manipulated like that. It’s not a game or a joke to manipulate an election through lies.
You just destroyed Saturday Night Live.
This is a scary idea that I hope freedom-loving people everywhere would oppose.
Certainly, if only not to see Stewart and Colbert behind bars.
But you appear skeptical, one wonders why? Those reports about hacking the DNC, you dismiss them out of hand? If not, then what? If they are willing to do that, why would they hesitate?
No. If your bullshit detector is not pinging after taking a look at this anonymous group, you probably shouldn’t operate on the internet unsupervised. I have no idea how this could be considered a legitimate story.
It’s not infringing on freedom anymore than libel or slander laws.
Sure it does. And what do you suggest as proof of factuality?
i’m sure you’d all love a Trump administration’s determination of what is factual and fines for those statements they don’t think are correct. CNN would be out of business by Jan 21st.
I’m…not in the habit of agreeing with Will Farnaby, it’s fair to say. But in this case, Blank Slate, I’m very curious what your post means. Does Greenwald have a history of fakery?
That OP’s article is fairly opinionated and relies way too heavily on accusations of cowardice for the propornot group’s anonymity. That said, their website really does look like a house of cards. If they are to be taken seriously, they need to get their shit together and make more defensible claims.
I agree we need a law against fake news. It could be modeled after laws against fraud. There would have to be proof that it is deliberate (they had correct info and chose to publicize incorrect info) and there would have to be intent. Publishing a story that turned out to be inaccurate wouldn’t qualify. Publishing a story from a source that lied intentionally wouldn’t qualify.
Democrats could pass laws such as these in states they control.