Serious question: what's wrong with fake news...

Serious question: what's wrong with fake news? Are people really that retarded that they can't tell the difference between a reliable story and National Enquirer tabloid bullshit?

Did people actually think Bat Boy was real too?

I don't know man, tabloids have been peddling fake news in grocery stores across the world for a long time and have gone relatively ignored by the rest of the news media for the last couple of decades at least.

this is fake news.
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Case in point; seen in my local Publix two days ago (you know why I was there).

yeah so why is it such a big problem now? tabloids have been saying insane shit about politicians since there were tabloids, only because the politicians came first

US is mad at the media for leading people astray and blatantly shilling for Hillary. Media is scapegoating "fake news". Its actually the american people who are to blame because they're too stupid to tell fake news from real news. Its not our fault.

Meanwhile it soothes the pain for dems. Hillary lost because all of america is so stupid that they think she's a Satan worshipping demon. Please nanny state do something about this! Tighten your control over what we read and watch! We need you to!

Then this pizzagate shit hits and just amplifies the whole thing. Confirms everything perfectly for the liberal worldview. Buzzword gets some more mileage. "Real news" calms everyone down and confirms that, no, Hillary does not eat children. Despite what those crazies on the internet might believe. So obviously they're wrong about everything and we're right about everything. Please believe us again!

Pizzagate ticked off a lot of people on the top.

Like I said I don't know. It's probably more reaction to the fact that they're losing more and more of their monopoly of information and a lot less on the veracity of the information itself.

Publix bro!

god dammit motherfucker I want answers

It just the new meme to discredit opposing views. The same people that brought us Brian Williams and Dan Rather want to tell you that your source is bad.

Shit man I didn't really even read your OP before spouting off. To answer your actual question: yes people are that retarded.

It's wrong because the Luegenpresse should have monopoly on information. You don't have to know about rapefugees

Any news site that takes more than 30 seconds to load a news story is bullshit. Breitbart is so overloaded with ads it makes me wanna shoot myself in the fucking face.

Bat Boy is real, retard.

He dated my sister once.

It's a problem now because the pendulum is swinging to the right.

CNN and MSN have been steadily losing ratings. How to fix that? Control where people read "news" and label anything not them as fake.

okay plenty of NYTimes, CNN etc sites will load up full screen video ads that you can maybe close out of so desu I think your reasoning here is a little bullshit

Are you from the future?

it's just retaliation by (((real))) news outlets
instead of apologizing they just call even more names

>Can't people tell?

No, people can't. But the problem isn't that fake news has been elevated to the level of real news, the problem is that corporate media outlets have discredited themselves so much that so-called real news is as unreliable as fake news.

I've been looking for a good news source that also conforms to what I believe regarding the holocaust and global warming. Do any of you know anything like this?

Wait, Bat Boy is fake?

Well to be fair the batboy fake news papers had a disclaimer saying it was for entertainment purposes only. These days it's fake depending on what side your on. It's based on something much more complicated then being fake. Those bat boy newspapers did have people believe it but there was a disclaimer, the world has never been as divided as it is now and that is mainly because we are entering the next type of civ, which is a world wide civ. It takes time, and some people suggest it will take blood. Even star trek universe has this story, and essentially you know who won, except in their story anybody who was a "bad" socialist became the borg, and the good ones killed the rest of the world before exploring space.

In real life there is no "borg" so the good can see the bad, and instead we may not make it out of this. As many worlds may not make it out of it.

Who determines what is and is not real news? Judging by the coverage by the mainstream media, the mainstream media is fake news. CNN, MSNBC, NYT, Washington Post are ALL nothing more than liberal propaganda mills, whose ONLY function is to disguise unfounded liberal OPINIONS as unquestioned FACT. The very definition of fake news.

Yes, hicks buy into internet news pretty easily. It's why Trump won.

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