What's all this fake news stuff, anyhow?

[sine-qua-non]

Trumps popularity keeps going up

And the lefts popularity keeps going down

[chuck_curtis]

President Trump never said there was a "terror attack" last night in Sweden, but that didn't stop hundreds of fake news outlets from claiming he did.

The Guardian:



Vox:



The Daily Mail:



USA TODAY:



PIX 11:



There's hundreds more.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=56293

[chuck_curtis]

The New York Times ran with Claire McCaskill's false claim she never "met or called" any Russian ambassadors in "10 years" on the Armed Services Committee in order to slander Jeff Sessions as though he's Russian agent.

While the New York Times didn't bother to check her claims, a simple search of McCaskill's twitter shows she met and called a Russian ambassador at least twice.

The New York Times responded to this revelation by stealthy removing her comments from their article. They failed to issue any correction or retraction as The Federalist's Sean Davis noted on twitter:

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=56360

[chuck_curtis]

Investigative website ProPublica retracted a story it published on Feb. 22, 2017, in which it reported that Gina Haspel oversaw a CIA black-site in Thailand where suspected al-Qaieda leader Abu Zubaydah was interrogated using waterboarding and other coercive interrogation methods.

The story had also claimed that Haspel mocked the prisoner’s suffering in a private conversation.

“Neither of these assertions is correct and we retract them,” said ProPublica in a retraction statement.

The article had become the source of hundreds of other news reports after Trump announced he had picked Haspel to become the first woman to lead the CIA as its director.

The Associated Press published a correction for a number of stories it published on Haspel that incorrectly stated she oversaw the CIA black site in Thailand and that she was connected to the interrogation of Zubaydah.

Many other media who repeated the false claims have not run corrections.

In general, retractions get limited notice, and so the potential damage of the misinformation in the original article is mostly unchecked.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/this-weeks-fake-news-trumps-pick-for-cia-chief-did-not-oversee-waterboarding-at-black-site_2471670.html