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Again, this started as a tweet - of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Trump tossing spoonfuls of fish food into Koi pond. What went viral was an clip of Trump appearing to quickly pour his entire box of food into the pond. But then it turned out that Abe went first. It could have just been a matter of how the video feeds were released to reporters. The CNN report noted: "The move got Trump some laughs, and a smile from Abe, who actually appeared to dump out his box of food ahead of Trump." … [Read more...] about Fact check: Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ focused on reports that were wrong — and quickly corrected

Such is the quality of discourse online in 2018: Barely six weeks after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, the pro-gun-control students who survived have been turned into demons on social media. Rather than simply saying, "We don't agree with gun-control measures, but these kids have a right to protest," thousands of internet trolls have decided to instead fight the demands of the #NeverAgain movement by comparing fellow survivor Emma Gonzalez to Fidel Castro (insane), photoshopping Hogg's face to make him look like Hitler (also insane), and even siding with mass murderer Nikolas Cruz by pretending that Gonzalez and Hogg bullied Cruz so hard that he was forced to kill people (where do we start with that one?). … [Read more...] about The “Natural News” Guy Created an Entire Website to Smear David Hogg

And if you reply “stick to sports,” you should probably tune of out Fox News because they’ve got karate guys talking climate change on there. (Which I’m cool with... it’s his right.) Unless it’s just about you needing to feel like you’ve got control of athletes like Lebron. … [Read more...] about Eagles’ Chris Long skewers Fox News for LeBron James smear

During Sunday’s episode, Oliver spent about four minutes skewering Sinclair’s blatant right-wing agenda, highlighting other “must-run” stories the company's stations have broadcast – Sinclair previously was best know for a politically and racially charged directive that each of its newsrooms create "Terrorism Alert Desks" to produce daily reports on alleged terrorist-related news. … [Read more...] about John Oliver takes on the Sinclair ‘false news’ promo that’s invading local newsrooms

CNN's "State of the Union": Bolton; Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla. … [Read more...] about Sunday news shows