Spreading fake news quotes

A SCANDAL-shy town in the Philippines has clamped down on tittle-tattle – by BANNING gossip. And those caught having a sly chat about the neighbours' mounting debts or sneaky affair are quickly punished with a fine, or publicly humiliated by being made to clean up streets. Binalonan's control freak town mayor, Ramon Guico, has no time for such small talk. He dismisses gossip as a "waste of time. You’d think people would have something better to do.” Mr Guico, 44, who has also banned karaoke from 10pm, told The Wall Street Journal that taking a hard line on rumour-mongers would help improve the quality of life in the town, north of Philippine capital of Manila. He whinged that the worst time for idle chitchat was during summer, when people gathered under trees to escape the fierce heat and indulge in a catch-up. From there it’s all downhill, he said, as their discussion swiftly turned to tawdry talk on who was cheating on their partner, or running up debts. He … [Read more...] about Philippines town BANS gossip in bid to fight fake news… fining residents found to be spreading rumours about their neighbours

NewsGuard is yet another Rorschach test that says everything about the provincial, close-minded, and deceptive blacklisters who created it and nothing about its intended targets. Let’s start with NewsGuard’s decision to place the Drudge Report on its blacklist. How is it possible to blacklist Drudge as unreliable when  Drudge mostly aggregates news from other sites, and when Drudge does break news, it is never fake?Blacklisting an aggregation site is not only ludicrous; it is revealing about NewsGuard’s own lack of credibility, transparency, and biases. Moreover, what does it say when NewsGuard gives every single establishment media site (every single one!) a passing grade when those are the sites Drudge links most often? What this tells us is that NewsGuard is not interested in accuracy, but rather how terrified this latest establishment media weed is of a popular site that operates outside the establishment media’s filter. Through aggregation, Drudge is a … [Read more...] about Fact Check: Media Blacklisters NewsGuard Promotes Fake News, Repeatedly Violates Own Standards

Far-left NBC News smeared Covington Catholic High School by spreading fake news about “Covington” banning of a gay valedictorian’s speech. For five days now, the establishment media have relentlessly demonized a group of high school kids guilty of nothing more than behaving admirably in the face of taunts and bullying. On Saturday night, the media used selectively edited video and proven lies told by American Indian activist Nathan Phillips to falsely accuse MAGA hat-wearing kids — 16-year-olds from Covington Catholic High School — of ganging up on the activist.Video proves the kids, who were waiting for their bus after the March for Life, had been minding their own business when a gang of adult black nationalists taunted them for the better part of an hour with racist and homophobic slurs. Then Phillips menaced and provoked the kids by invading their personal space while beating a drum. The reaction from the Covington kids consisted only of admirable … [Read more...] about Nolte: NBC Pens Fake News About Gay Valedictorian’s Banned ‘Covington’ Speech

opinion Brian Dickerson Detroit Free Press Published 8:00 AM EST Jan 13, 2019 The scene is the digital news meeting that takes place at the Free Press every weekday morning, and if I were sitting at the conference table (instead of lurking furtively in the doorway, which is my preferred perch for this daily gathering of millennials), I would be the oldest person in the room. Not that there's anything wrong with that.    Brian Manzullo, an editor roughly half my age, is describing a phony tweet, currently getting wide circulation on social media, in which some cyber-rapscallion pretending to be U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) says that any raping and pillaging the illegal immigrants who haunt President Donald Trump's nightmares may be perpetrating is only just deserts for the way the U.S. government has treated "my people" in the past. The fake (but incendiary) post's virulence prompts a debate that takes place more … [Read more...] about Meet the generation behind the fake news epidemic