With all the fake news going around, April Fools Day just wasn't the same. I mean, can anybody come up with a bigger joke than QAnon or virus hoaxes? With Dominion Voting Systems suing Fox News and a slew of right-wing rumor mongers, it's clear that one way to fight disinformation and conspiracy theories is … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending April 2, 2021
Sometimes disseminating fake news has consequences. Read on to learn more... The big news this morning is that Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News for $1.6 billion for defamation regarding Fox spreading falsehoods that Dominion used its voting machines to rig the 2020 presidential election. Fox News is often anything but and they need … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending March 26, 2021
Russian disinformation, QAnon conspiracies, and lies about the COVID-19 vaccine -- it's like old home week! The big fake news news this week is the not unexpected revelation that Russia was up to its old tricks in trying to influence the 2020 presidential election. According to an election post mortem by the U.S. intelligence community, … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending March 19, 2021
It's great to a have a president who doesn't call everything he doesn't like "fake news," and who himself doesn't spread lies and disinformation with every utterance. That noted, on to the news about fake news for the week. Have you heard about Sabmyk? It's a new online cult actively targeting QAnon followers. (I guess … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending March 12, 2020
Believers in conspiracy theories and fake news eventually have a hard time when they go up against the hard facts of reality. Keep that in mind as you read on... Well, March 4th came and went and Donald Trump was not returned to the presidency in a blaze of revisionist history, as some in the … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending March 5, 2021
Here's all the news about fake news that's fit to (digitally) print. What's so important about March 4? Well, it's the latest big date on the QAnon conspiracy calendar. Apparently some of these crazies, unwilling to accept that their savior Donald J. Trump really lost last fall's presidential election and disappointed that "the storm" that … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending February 26, 2021
It's cold in Texas. It's cold in Minnesota, too. Nothing fake about that. Some Texas politicians are blaming the state's power blackouts, in the face of record-breaking cold weather and snowstorms, on frozen wind turbines. This is mostly not true. The state only gets about 25% of its electricity from wind power, and while half … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending February 19, 2021
Fake virus news, fake election news, fake this, fake that, where to start? My Pillow guy Mike Lindell released a two-hour (originally promised as a three-hour) "documentary" supposedly providing proof of election fraud that "stole" the election from loser Donald Trump. Absolute Proof, as it is titled, is difficult to find online, as all respectable … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending February 12, 2021
This week Politico interviewed Elizabeth Neumann, a former top official at the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump administration, and a devout evangelical Christian. The title of the article is "It’s Time to Talk About Violent Christian Extremism," but the most interesting part concerns her thoughts on how QAnon and other conspiracy theories bloomed … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending February 5, 2021
We're still dealing with all the lies and disinformation disseminated by the previous president and his followers. It may never end. I like it when something becomes so well acknowledged that it becomes somewhat official. Case in point: former president Donald Trump's "Big Lie." That's right, it now has initial caps, so it must be … Continue reading Fake News for the Week Ending January 29, 2021
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