With the election coming up in about two months, the coronavirus pandemic chugging along, and the whole BLM/police brutality thing simmering at a medium boil, the fake news is getting pretty thick out there. Here's what's happening this week. Last night President Donald J. Trump gave his acceptance address during the last night of the … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending August 28, 2020
It's Friday again, which means it's time to work through all the fake news of the week. As usual, there's a lot. QAnon is a wacky conspiracy theory involving pedophiles, cannibals, and a deep state conspiring to take down their savior, President Donald J. Trump. It's becoming more dangerous by the day, to the point … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending August 21, 2020
There's so much fake news to deal with this week, let's get straight to it. You knew it was going to happen. As soon as former VP Joe Biden announced Senator Kamala Harris as his choice for vice presidential candidate, the racist right wingers came out of the woodwork, claiming that she isn't qualified for … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending August 14, 2020
Lots of fake news and, as usual, much of it revolves around President Donald J. Trump. Hold on to your hats... The big fake news news this week concerned both Facebook and Twitter removing a post by President Trump that linked to an interview where he claimed children are "almost immune" to COVID-19. Facebook said … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending August 7, 2020
It's the end of July and the fake news keeps on coming, spurred along by the coronavirus and President Donald J. Trump and his minions. Let's get to it. The big dust-up this week concerns a video from "America's Frontline Doctors," a group of non-mainstream physicians who make series of dubious and outright false claims … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending July 31, 2020
I am tired of all the cries of "hoax" and "fake news" around the very real facts and recommendations from scientists and other experts regarding wearing masks and fighting the COVID-19 coronavirus. My fake news choices this week probably reflect that, to some degree. Let's start with President Donald J. Trump and an interview he … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending July 24, 2020
What did John Lennon know about fake news? "Nothing is real," he wrote in "Strawberry Fields Forever," and sometimes it seems that is true. Oliver Taylor is a twenty-something student at Britain's University of Birmingham. He's a coffee lover and politics junkie who was raised in a traditional Jewish home. He writes editorials and blog … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending July 17, 2020
We're more than half way through the year and fake news continues to march on. Here's what's happening now: A bevy of right-wing militias, bikers, and skinheads flocked to Gettysburg last week to foil a plan by antifa protesters to burn American flags. Unfortunately for the incensed militia folks, the antifa story was straight up … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending July 10, 2020
Happy Independence Day, everybody. Let's declare all of us independent from the onslaught of fake news by examining what's fake and what's real this week. Ad Fontes Media has released an updated version (version 6.0) of its Media Bias Chart. It attempts to place news outlets on a grid according to their liberal/conservative bias and … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending July 3, 2020
Here's all the fake news that's not fit to print... Apparently exposure to Sean Hannity can be deadly. According to experts, misinformation spread by Fox News and other conservative media "may have intensified the severity" of the COVID-19 pandemic. Three different studies "paint a picture of a media ecosystem that entertains conspiracy theories and discourages … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending June 26, 2020
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