Seriously. I saw this on Reddit as well. All of this false information is getting ridiculous. It's getting hard to sift through to find any real information. It was irresponsible of Imzy to put out an email like that. Real information is more important now than ever for people to get their voice heard on the issues they care about.Part of the transition to the new President that was planned in advance. I hate the guy, but let's hate him for the shit he does, not the false nonsense.
If I was one of Trump's people I would throw out so much outrageous click baity garbage and hope that the "Trump Derangement Syndrome" takes hold. Then you come out and look sane and laugh at the "fake news." Do that enough and when it comes time to loot the treasury, sell off the national parks, pave over the forests, gut social security, trash public education and destroy medicare the well is so poisoned that nobody knows what to believe anymore. The next two years are going to be a gong show of a dumpster fire and it sucks that my country is the front row seat for whatever is coming down the pike.
I'm hesitant to write this because it's early days, I don't want to generalize, and I'm really having a hard time sifting through how much spin is on the news and the reason it's there. But so far, it seems to me that Trump's people don't have to do anything. There's so much click baity garbage out there already that it obscures the real issues.
We know from all the Wikileaks drops that the US media went all-in on Hillary getting elected. My hope is that they channel that corruption/anger/oversight(?) into watching the new administration much better than they watched Obama.I'm really having a hard time sifting through how much spin is on the news and the reason it's there.
I just saw a reddit about BBC setting up a team to debunk fake news. This was on Jan. 12, 2017. https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5nlf5o/bbc_sets_up_team_to_debunk_fake_news_permanent/ The article https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/12/bbc-sets-up-team-to-debunk-fake-news But it seems to me that even foreign countries have a stake in the outcome of the news.