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My dear republican friends... don't say I never gave you anything.
My dear republican friends... don't say I never gave you anything.
So Joshua G / Dynamo / JohnnyClips was right. There are some dumb libs. On FB anyway. sigh...
I had joined an FB site, and started noticing lots of links to Anti-Trump news stories, and the expected "libby" rage that followed.
(For the record, I'm a libby).
Everyone in the thread was losing their shit because the OP linked to a page (that was suspended by the way, saying that Sean Spicer said that "THE US IS READY FOR WORLD WAR 3" in a press conference, today.
How hard is this to verify? Of course its super easy. But people were losing their minds today about this, despite not actually seeing or hearing it for themselves.
Another "headline" linking to a similar story was equally spooky, but the link worked. This time, I noticed that the site looked kind of bad. It was covered in ads, with a URL that contained things like US-News.something.something.else. The URL looked legit at first glance, but a second look showed you it was not right.
Searching for the headlines on other reputable news sites yielded no results. A WHOIS looking showed the domains registered way-over-there somewhere, the day before yesterday. It was easy to see that this was a fake news site after only 5 minutes of basic digging that every Internet user should know by now.
So I start pointing out this "fake news" sites, and boy did I get slammed for doing it. From my fellow libby's!
When more fake news sites popped up, I pointed it out, and showed people how to spot them, how to search, what the fuck a WHOIS search is, etc etc.
And guess what? I got slammed again, and I got banned.
(Me! Banned! Fathom the concept!)
So anyway, the take away from this is: There are idiots everywhere, on both sides of the fence. And there are fake news sites everywhere, on both sides of the fence. It sucking fucks that these days it may be harder for people to learn whats true about important people and events in the world, but I guess that this is the new reality.
The only thing we can do is be smart. Try to identify whats real and whats fake. If its on FB, report it as fake. Be more diligent. Read, question & research before you instantly share.
/rant.
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