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Right-wingers attempt to slander Houston Black Lives Matter with a photo taken on I-93 here in 2015
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Just a darn tootin' minute there, Hoss!!
You mean to tell me that "news" being reported on Facebook, is false!
Get outta town! Now I have to spend the whole holiday weekend rethinking my plan to support Mark Zuckerberg's future political aspirations.
Ruined. My life is truly ruined.
I don't...
" Now I have to spend the whole holiday weekend rethinking my plan to support Mark Zuckerberg's future political aspirations."
I'd be more concerned with the google...
Does it matter
They were blocking something
I'm afraid you're not getting it
The accusation is that a group of people were stopping lifesaving goods from getting to flood victims, and the "proof" was a photo taken two years earlier and 1,000 miles away, featuring conditions that couldn't possibly exist anywhere near the flood zone. You really need it spelled out why this is a lie?
Is it really a problem?
I mean, if you're relying on FB postings day-to-day actionable information to form your opinions (or even worse, actions) then you really deserve what you get. Which is most of the time going to be caca..
Yes
It matters, because people who rely on FB postings vote.
Sadly mistaken
I got it and get it.
Do you
Yes, truth matters
.
People Like You
Absolutely it matters! It's people like you who perpetuate the notion that Black lives don't matter because you would rather believe a lie to satisfy your need to be superior. You probably teach your children to hate the truth, as well. It is a lie...PERIOD!
It's a problem
But how can it be remedied? Now everyone's conservative uncle is convinced of something that absolutely did not happen in any way whatsoever.
Facebook can't possibly verify the accuracy of every post, but it seems like there are pages that consistently spread misinformation that can be shut down.
Quit
Quit facebook & twitter.
They're bad for you and bad for the country.
FB staff are too busy banning breastfeeding pics
They can't possibly notice when a page gets reported 27,000 times for racist bullshit! AN AREOLA MIGHT GET THROUGH!!!!
No way.
Not if the baby is placed correctly.
I know that
But they don't.
Right-wingers fall for a story started by a liberal?
This is kind of like blaming those who believed Barack Obama's biography sell-sheet that assured us that Obama was born in Kenya, raised in Indonesia. In that case also, if you believe what the liberals wrote, you are somehow a right-wing bigot. BLM has blocked roads during emergencies in the past and called for the deaths of police officers, so the story was believable. This is really shameless by the left not the right.
You need to read the Buzzfeed account more carefully
The moron you cite was to blame for another false flag several days ago, not the one involving the I-93 photo. That one, you know, the one I thought was locally relevant, is all on your gullible fellow righties and the Russian trolls who feed them (and man, I still have trouble dealing with the fact that alleged conservatives have all become red-diaper Commie-lovin' Putinistas).
And as Buzzfeed reports:
Glad that BLM has changed their tune
Good pivot by BLM. Joining President Trump and Melania in helping hurricane victims is a much better look than rioting, looting, blocking interstates and "pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon." Any updates on elderly Sue, wife of a US Marine vet? She was dragged through the Boston Common by the "peaceful protesters" while clutching her US flag in a scene reminiscent of Stanley Forman's Pulitzer Prize winning photo of Ted Landsmark being prodded with a US flag during busing "The Soiling of Old Glory." Media silence and video embargo for the attack on Sue while Ted is rightfully in the history books. Both should be.
As for the "moron" you mention, he is described in the piece as a liberal attempting to trick conservatives. Much like Obama's biography sell-sheet that assured us Obama was "born in Kenya, raised in Indonesia." Even though Obama's team put that info out, you are a racist and dumb if you repeat it.
If your premise is that the liberal media lies and needs to be double checked by conservatives, maybe we can agree on that.
Smh right - if they could
Smh right - if they could only have the humanity and decency the alt-right nazis have.
I think beginning to root for North Korea now
Symptomatic of Fibrio
Why don't you go down there and violate curfew with the rest of the gun toting wankers, Fish? You have a boat at least.
At least you want us to think you do.
Why...
...does a FISH need a boat?
Just when I thought the takes couldn't get any hotter
This guy refers to what is happening in the Soiling of Old Glory as a "prodding" and equates that captured act of racist violence to a woman who had a flag taken away from her while supporting white supremacists...and 29 fellow garbage people gave it a thumbs up!
Buzfeed's on the level, so I'll stick with citing them...
"The moron you cite was to blame for another false flag several days ago, not the one involving the I-93 photo. That one, you know, the one I thought was locally relevant, is all on your gullible fellow righties and the Russian trolls who feed them (and man, I still have trouble dealing with the fact that alleged conservatives have all become red-diaper Commie-lovin' Putinistas)."
Well, I guess I'm a "red-diaper Commie-lovin' Putinista". OK, glad you said that without capitalizing random words...
Here's a Buzzfeed page from last March:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/fake-news-...
" How A Liberal Troll Became Spammers’ Favorite Fake News Source"
"When the American man known online as Busta Troll tried to get the Eastern European spammers to stop stealing his content, one threatened to knock his site offline. "
"On Mar. 4, a website run by an American who identifies himself as “Busta Troll” published a completely false story claiming the FBI had a warrant for Barack Obama’s arrest for illegally wiretapping Donald Trump."
"Despite its obvious issues, within just a few hours the false story — including the patriotic guinea pig — was copied by at least 19 websites largely run by people in countries including Macedonia, Kosovo, and the Republic of Georgia. It’s a pattern that has repeated itself over and over again for weeks: A fake site meant to troll American conservatives publishes an outrageously false hoax and it’s immediately plagiarized and published on a network of sites run by spammers thousands of miles away."
The above cited page is worth a click because it sheds some much needed background on this (unless you're a troll or spammer) non-story.
Here's the article you cite:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/conservati...
"The two false articles, from Mr. Conservative and Conservative Post, have identical headlines and use an image taken in 2015 in Boston as their thumbnail."
So, it's a thumbnail. The snow probably didn't look too clear, being a thumbnail and all. OK, here's the screenshot from the 'deleted' conservative website, courtesy of an archive site:
So, let me get this straight. A ctrl-left troll, going by the name of "...troll" sets up fake sites and trolls people. His content gets stolen (after he steals the pics and stuff first...from CNN http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/09/us/black-lives-matte...) by "...Macedonia, Kosovo, and the Republic of Georgia" and he's all butthurt over this. After first, of course, partnering with one of them...
And this involves centrists and right of center (not Red diaper babies, or Commies, or Nazis or KKK people. Just your neighbors that don't support Hillary) people how?
Remember, a famous man once said, "Melodramatic victimization is the stock in trade of fascism."
Go outside, get some air.
Russian social media bots steered the 2016 election,
and their influence continues.
Admit it: you have friends on Facebook that have shared stories about how Obama played golf during Katrina, never mind that he wouldn't be president for another three years. American democracy is no longer smart enough to survive an age in which hostile state actors tweeting bullshit via tens of thousands of fake personae are more influential than the traditional press.
Too bad it's a fallen world.
Slander
Adam, it seems like to me you are the king of slander and unfactual reporting... The journalism code of ethics means nothing to you does it?
"Unfactual"?
Please site what aspects of Adam's post you deem "unfactual". Or is that just the term Trump supporters use instead of "fake news" when they want to sound educated while denying reality?
Once again, you're only here to be an asshat
Fact free insult opening.
Comment on reporting quality without any substantive critique of any actual issues therein.
Complete failure to advance or explicate any coherent alternative given extensive resources provided by the host himself.
Perhaps you need to go back to 4chan or something? This might actually pass for thoughtful critique there.
If I thought for a second
that there was anyone out there dumb enough to fall for your schtick, I'd start keeping track of the words you don't understand the meaning of. It would be a pretty impressive list, judging from your last few posts. How fortunate for both of us that anyone with a junior-high diploma knows that you're out of your depth.
I just assumed it was an eight-year-old who was posting
when I read "the journalism code of ethics."
Mr. "Republican" reminds me of the Vincent Adultman character on BoJack Horseman: "I went to stock market today. I did a business."