BamaD -> RE: So who started fake news? (1/14/2017 4:54:20 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kanesays 'The Godfather of fake news is Disinfomedia. It's founder is Jestin Coler, he is a Denver Colorado resident and now owns many other websites he will not name that also distribute fake news. After my Senator John Thune, and other conservatives met with Facebook to voice concerns over the lack of conservative newsfeeds into Facebook trending, then along comes Jestin Coler. He, if you recall, was the one who wrote in the "Denver Guardian" that an FBI agent who leaked Clinton emails was killed. Coler says that over 10 days the site got 1.6 million views. He says stories like this work because they fit into existing right-wing conspiracy theories. "The people wanted to hear this," he says. "So all it took was to write that story. Everything about it was fictional: the town, the people, the sheriff, the FBI guy. And then ... our social media guys kind of go out and do a little dropping it throughout Trump groups and Trump forums and boy it spread like wildfire." Coler's company, Disinfomedia, owns many faux news sites — he won't say how many. But he says his is one of the biggest fake-news businesses out there, which makes him a sort of godfather of the industry. Coler says his writers have tried to write fake news for liberals — but they just never take the bait.' I am one of those godless liberals with fancy critical thinking skills who eschew cognitive dissonance. William Randolph Hearst, the sinking of the Maine, predates your example by decades. And he was by no means the first.
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