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US President Barack Obama Criticizes Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories (www.bgr.in)
An anonymous reader writes:Concerned over the spread of fake news on the social networking giant, US President Barack Obama has criticized Facebook, saying fake stories on social networks are spreading lies this election. Speaking at a rally for Hillary Clinton at University of Michigan, Obama said: "The way campaigns have unfolded, we just start accepting crazy stuff as normal and people if they just repeat attacks enough and outright lies over and over again. As long as it's on Facebook, and people can see it, as long as it's on social media, people start believing it, and it creates this dust cloud of nonsense," he told the gathering. A recent BuzzFeed investigation found that 38 percent of posts shared from three large right-wing politics pages on Facebook included "false or misleading information."
I recent study (by me) has determined that BuzzFeed is a left-wing site.
So going by this logic politicians should just shut up and let their record stand for itself.
>> US President Barack Obama
Er...thanks for letting us know who "Barack Obama" is, I guess.
Of the outgoing POTUS endorsing the Democratic nominee stating, "She's the most qualified candidate EVER". Oh, not that one.
If he wanted to say this, he should have said it during the primary when it was flooded with lies about Sanders claiming he was communist, would bankrupt the nation and give them a 90% tax rate.
Won't lie, I have seen more lies no days before the general, but it has been flooded for over a year.
Keeps trying to fix a broken system after the damage has already been done. If he wanted to fix this, he would need to restart the primaries.
"To combat the lies being spread about me; I'd like you to rev up the censorship"
Thank you, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and so many others, for courageously defending humanity, my freedom and more!
When they were spreading stuff against my political foes, it was cool. But now that my party is getting some bad press, it ain't cool no more. Need to stop this! Think of the children!!
Look no further than most words coming out of Hillary's mouth.
I mean, the number of violent crimes per year has been declining a lot. Yet the Trump narrative is that "crime rates are soaring because of illegals".
How will Trump manage to win with that lie? It's easy when he cherry pick crimes to highlight. I mean, he gives multiple specific examples of crimes committed by illegals .. making it look like the crime contribution is much higher than it is.
When the fact is pointed out that the criminal rate among illegals is less than the general population they pivot to saying "these are extra crimes that wouldn't have happened". Which is a false statement because illegals are also the victims of violent crime by legal citizens who may have carried out the same crime on someone else. Meaning statistically, due to the fact that illegals also absorb crime the overall effect on crime may actually be positive.
That's right, illegal immigration may actually be reducing crimes against citizens.
And then there is the humanitarian argument that from God's perspective a violent criminal in the US is more likely to be caught. So the overall net effect is that less humans are victims of crime .. which from the perspective of being human is a plus.
I am not arguing in favor of open borders, just illustrating that narratives can go both ways depending on which facts you want to place emphasis on.
"Obama criticizes Facebook of...
Perhaps you mean criticizes FB for spreading fake stories
Facts can be used to lie. You can state things that are true and still make someone arrive at an incorrect conclusion or solution.
That implies two things:
1. The quality of Facebook has increased substantially.
2. We're screwed.
Isn't this the same guy who was downing Trump for his attach on Saturday Night Live? Funny how these things work.
Does Facebook get to criticize Obama for telling illegal aliens that they can become citizens by going out and voting illegally?
We were so much better off when all of our fake stories were carefully handcrafted by the propaganda wing of the Democrat party (CNN, MSN, CBS, FNC, etc.).
See that "Preview" button?
He's almost out and the US'oA didn't exactly get the change they wanted, but probably they change they deserved.
So if we accuse him and Clinton of using the mainstream media in that way he says we are conspiracy theorist, but when he says we use social media that, it's something bad?
The government is concerned about spreading lies and that it may dupe people into making choices that they wouldn't make if they knew the real facts? Talk about blistering irony...
Jesus, it's a good thing this fool hasn't turned on his TV and seen the bullshit 95% of the "news" has been spewing about Trump this cycle. I'm sure his head would explode.
So, If there's anything said that is counter to anything Hillary or Obama have said, it should be removed right?
Take that facebook! I am tired of how facebook media essentially conspires to keep the important news about war and fraud by the rich and powerful away from airtime! Do one about the absolutely dishonest way the media has made a huge deal over some sexual impropriety and hawkish claims of one candidate while the other has been a rape enabler and victim silencer for half her life and has actually participated in war crimes! Oh, wait that's the mainstream media
The average American hasn't been exposed to a trustworthy press, practically their whole lives. Now the establishment is surprised they'll believe anything. The CFR-controlled media and government have colluded for decades to shovel horseshit rather than truth. Americans have been weaned on horseshit. When are we going to have an open talk about that?
Just don't attempt censorship. That is not allowed. Evidently the government wants a monopoly on deception.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
It's getting to the point where in the future, nobody will be able to tell what's true and what's false.
That's really problematic, because if two people who need to dialogue with each other don't have a 'frame of reference', how *can* they discuss anything?
Deal with reality - the world as it is - rather than ideality - the world as you would like it to be.
Bet he doesn't care if it is a fake story that has nothing to do with his party.
I dont undersand the whole religious people disliking gay marriage, if you want to reduce the amount of gay sex, you would support it. :)
Best sex killer ever.
everything everywhere is misinformation and lies. All of it. Period. Not a single iota of data released for mass consumption is intended to inform. It is intended to confuse and weaken.
A recent BuzzFeed investigation found that 38 percent of posts shared from three large right-wing politics pages on Facebook included "false or misleading information."
Yeah, but, let me guess, Media Matters, TPM, etc. were found to be bastions of honesty, right?
I had to hide all posts from about half my facebook "friends" on both sides of the political aisle because so much of it was just outright falsehoods. It was different kinds of falsehoods, but still lies.
Do you have ESP?
That's rich.
...this would not be such a tight race. And I say this as a Trump supporter
Leave Kettle alone!
"My position hasn’t changed" on using executive authority to address immigration issues. ... Donald Trump is a small business."
Says his comment about extremists being a JV team "wasn’t specifically referring to" Islamic State.
"Most young Americans right now, they’re not covered" by health insurance.
"We’ve got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion."
The "most realistic estimates" for jobs created by Keystone XL are "maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline."
"We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas."
"Under Gov. Romney's definition
Because of Obamacare, "over the last two years, health care premiums have gone up -- it's true -- but they've gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years." Obamacare hadn't been implemented yet.
"Fast and Furious" began under the Bush administration.
Says Mitt Romney would deny gay people the right to adopt children.
If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it "would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."
"Thirty million Americans, including a lot of people in Florida, are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law."
Under President Barack Obama, the United States has "doubled our exports."
"I didn't raise taxes once."
"The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.''
"We've excluded lobbyists from policy making jobs."
Insurers delayed an Illinois man's treatment, "and he died because of it."
Health reform will "give every American the same opportunity" to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do.
Preventive care "saves money."
"I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter."
Shovel-ready jobs
Keep your doctor
Foreign money in campaigns
The list goes on and on...
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
Hillary made me get gay married. Then she killed my lover, to show she has the power.
He's absolutely right. There was even one crooked politician who was spreading lies about Russia trying to help her opponent and even hacking her email (even though she also claimed that her insecure email server was never hacked) when she was actually the one making deals with Russia that were bad for this country. Also "swift-boating" her opponent with a barrage of false last minute sexual claims (gee, they are all so obviously false but there are so many of them ....). Lets blame Facebook rather than the candidates.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Facebook created an easy way to share stories. It has no control of the content and has stated so in it's terms of use https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms So they created a way to spread stories, the fake part it has no control over and takes no responsibility for. So Obama is bashing the basic function of Facebook(sharing info - stories), and trying to hold it accountable for something it says it doesn't want to control(censorship).
Yeh, you stick it to the man, Vote Mitt Romney this election!
Obama isn't even American! That TV talent show, novelty act Trump said he had proof!
Can't wait for the new iPhone 4s, so I can tell my Fox News buddy Roger Ailes about what I just did!
Facebook is a SOCIAL NETWORK, NOT a news source.
Facebook is all about opinion and whatever people post. If you treat it a an actual source with journalistic integrity, you are a dumbass.
Is slashdot farming its editing out to China? Either that, or you misspelled "for". Bad grammar is fine in a comment, NOT in a story or headline.
Free Martian Whores!
From the religious perspective...God doesn't just judge people, but nations as well. The belief is that if our nation turns to this lifestyle, the country will fall.
Department of Truth
...Facebook isn't doing anything, but allowing users that are abiding by its terms of service to post whatever they want. There is no law against this because this is a free country, and there is this thing called freedom of speech! Second: Facebook isn't a news site, and it doesn't produce most of the content contained on Facebook. Facebook is a user driven site, and users are free to post pretty much anything they want as long as it doesn't violate Facebook's terms of service. If other people are dumb enough to believe false news stories without doing research on the topic then that is their priority, and the government has no business telling these idiots what to believe or not believe. Also the government has no right to try and persuade Facebook to protect these idiots. In fact please don't! Let natural selection take its course. As I have seen plenty of hazardous memes on Facebook that should cause idiots like this to do something stupid resulting in certain fatal injury.
38 percent of posts shared from three large right-wing politics pages on Facebook included "false or misleading information."
Of course, the posts shared from left-wing pages were completely accurate. /sarc TFA is crap. It implies that the right-wing sites are unreliable, but ignores the negative information about the left-wing sites.
The BuzzFeed article is long, and gives lots of interesting detail. It even appears to be pretty balanced, not pushing any particular political agenda. No surprise, extremist sites on both sides make shit up to support their views. The site with the highest proportion of false content was right-wing, but it was also the site with the least content. The site with the most false content (in absolute numbers, more than all other sites combined) was a leftist site.
With that background,
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
bad grammar? American grammar? Prepositions too difficult for you? Just insert a random preposition!
It's not the fault of FaceBook. It's the fault of people who WANT and NEED to believe the bullshit in order to prop up their otherwise unsustainable sense of white victimization. If FB did not exist, they'd still believe all of Trump's lies.
...we wouldn't have to go elsewhere for our news.
For example: Ask yourself why we so many instances of black on white crime never make the national news and why the names and photos of those arrested under Operation Cross Country are not published.
Caught sayof school that has stoped Handstandsing " See, told ya so" Is He dead or not. CNN Says yes. St. Pete Times Looking for chads -OR- "hello, I am write single to salute and wait for answer again"
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Sorry, I'm only a 1336 h4x0r.
Yep, this G-d fellow's a bit weird. A country has some people who don't follow whatever holy book, so then S/He gets to whack the innocents that had nothing to do with the transgression. If it were a human doing the whacking, we'd call them a psycho-killer, but if it is a Deity, well, then any amount of violence is deemed acceptable.
WTF is a "fake story?" Is The Lord of the Rings one of the fake ones or one of the real ones?
People believe stupid shit, and they also believe plausible-but-incorrect shit. Just say that.
Implying that stories come in two categories sounds like something a media company would say, to make you think they are somehow better than everyone else. Oh wait .. turns out the bullshit words are from this "bgr.in" rather than Obama himself. Well, isn't that an amazing coincidence?
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
Some people are saying that Hillary is a shapeshifting reptoid.
Myself, I wouldn't know.
But that's what they're saying on the Facebooks.
We just provide the lies, you pick which one fits your preconceived bias.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I think the biased media has done a disservice to the American people. Providing more tailored stories than reporting the news from a more unbiased platform. News should be just that, and not pick and choose what your report. Facebook to me is not really news, do you really have journalists deciding news or deciding content that is relevant to a political or certain viewpoint? From both sides of politics I see people voting for candidates who don't even know what they stand for.
Perhaps it is the tone at the top.
Remember some old fart who was saying:
- red line not to be crossed
- insurance will be cheaper than the cable bill
- if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor
- there will be no penalties for not having health insurance
These were fake stories never retracted by their "spreader"
As long as the air is not cleared at the top, nobody can accuse Zukerberg.
In related news, US President Barack Obama also criticized the telephone, SMS, email, the USPS, cubicle walls, break rooms, dinner parties, and little folded pieces of paper passed in Math class* for repeating "attacks" and "outright lies".
* yes, kids probably don't do this anymore and it really dates me to say so. Suck it.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
WHO in their right mind listens to this guy (O'Bummer), he's a liar, one of the most deceitful presidents of all times. His failed policies have put this country in the swamp and made us a laughing matter throughout the world.
Why not? It works for CNN!
> "we just start accepting crazy stuff as normal"
Maybe if all of them would stop lying and quit acting like the country is their personal playground/piggybank/etc, we wouldn't be "accepting crazy stuff as normal," and *some* sense of sanity could start coming back.
Maybe.
Crazy? Nonsense?
Have you seen who the candidates are?
False = Factually incorrect
Misleading = doesn't imply what I want to imply.
False or Misleading = stuff I don't agree with.
Now, there's a shocker: BuzzFeed says 3 Republican sites have stuff they don't agree with. The real surprise is they were able to toss only 38% of posts into that bucket.
All over the world, that formula has held. Lee Kwan Yew, the founder of Singapore, noted that in a multicultural democracy, people vote their racial and ethnic identity not ideology. In Rwanda, Hutus personally hacked apart with machetes, or beat to death with stones, somewhere between 800K and 1.1 million Tutsis and "moderate" Hutus. This matched the three year total of Auschwitz. Similar but lower genocide coefficient stories can be found throughout Africa, including the Biafran Civil War, Somalia and South Sudan, and Mali. In Europe, the streets and busways and railways of Germany are a war zone, with swaggering, military age youth Muslims beating and raping people including children with impunity. In Austria a Muslim refugee who claimed "an emergency rape" of a ten year old boy in a public swimming pool (victim was White) was let go by a judge because "the refugee did not know what he was doing was wrong." Meanwhile Paris is an urban war zone of Calais "jungle" refugees fleeing back there after the jungle was dismantled and fighting (they are mostly Africans) with the French and Muslims.
The entire premise of Zionism is a Jewish ethno state that Jews can flee to for protection; and many are doing just that from Europe with the influx of Muslims. When Muslims feel confident enough to behead a Catholic Priest (the late, martyred Fr. Hamel) in Normandy DURING MASS, Jews have a point.
Nowhere in the entire history of Mankind has a multi cultural, multi-racial society held other than utter, total brutal dicatorship with most being slaves. See Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the USSR under Stalin, Adolf Hitler's multicultural empire, Rome, Ancient Persia, and the rest. The "best" one can hope for is a "Good Emperor" like Tito who merely imprisons half the loser ethnicity men not kills them.
Separation and Self-Determination are fundamental rights to all people. Obama's Mau Mau grandpa approved of the Mau Mau beating death of a 4 year old White boy in Kenya, to drive out Whites. It was a famous photo in its time, with the dead little boy lying about his toy train he crawled to for protection in vain. "The African cannot make his own bicycle" the elder Obama wrote, but noted that they had the right to kill any and all Whites and Indians to "cleanse" their nation from foreigners. Barack Obama noted wistfully in Dreams from My Father: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE that it would have been better if is politician father had succeeded in ethnically cleansing all Indians besides Whites from Kenya. [The part where he dines with his sister in a Nairobi restuarant and gets poor service compared to White tourists from the Indian family that owned the place.]
Africans and Muslims no more belong in Europe in significant numbers than Whites do running Africa or the ME. Good Fences make good neighbors.
And only a fool plays with fire.
Doesn't anyone remember ATTACK WAAAATCH!"
According to that book ...
1) There are no innocents
2) Bad things happen to good people
3) Good things happen to bad people
4) It all works out in the end.
And a couple more bits say
A) Man thinks he is smarter than God
B) God's stupidity is smarter than Mans awesome intelligence.
C) God actually striking down someone is fairly rare, and usually has a point (i.e. not random)
D) Man has killed from the beginning.
I'll bet dollars to donuts you haven't read the whole thing. Which is kinda like "fake stories on Facebook"
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
We were so much better off when all of our fake stories were carefully handcrafted by the propaganda wing of the Democrat party (CNN, MSN, CBS, FNC, etc.).
Truth/fact is a rare quality these days, having been replaced by unsupported allegations/innuendo. Could you please cite "fake stories" by CNN, MSN, CBS, ... Please provide some data to get us out of our all-sides propaganda quagmire.
What a colossal Jacka$$...
Fact check: True. Buzzfeed is a left-wing site, almost as left-wing as CNN.
He's upset because in previous election our political leaders were the ones spreading lies (for example Harry Reid and his claim about Romney not paying taxes for 10 years), but now the voters are doing it themselves, and it's less 'manageable'...
Go fuck yourself Obama! What a douchetool...
I'm sorry for the loss of your husband Vince Foster. Has time started to heal the wounds?
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
Is truly all Republicans got.
Because, in the vastness of the Universe, with the probably tens of millions of intelligent species, the one thing an omnipotent infinite being cares about is whether Stan and Gary get hitched.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
This problem with Facebook spreading false information has been going on for a long time. I remember a few years back, my acquaintances kept sharing news articles about some guy saying "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan," which turned out not to be true.
For US President Barack Obama to Criticize the DNC and the Media for spreading fake stories.
When is that going to happen?
Duplicitous!
But Facebook has convinced that there is definitely a vast right wing idiocracy.
Could say the same thing about radio, TV, and print... People used to send chain letters before there was the internet. God forbid rumors get spread! Just who exactly is he saying the onus is on to stop these 'false' stories anyway? Facebook? Next thing you know he'll be blaming microphone manufacturers for allowing people to give 'hateful' speeches.
Speak for yourself.
How is this any different than what the main stream media has been doing for decades?
That's like saying if you want to reduce child molestation crimes you should lower the age of consent to 5 years old.
Only 38%, IMHO that is far below the level of false and misleading information that comes from large commercial news media, so I'd have to say Facebook and Twitter are doing a better job at providing unbiased news than cable or broadcast news organizations, such as FOX and CNN.
Why should the average person be held to a higher standard than an professional organization ?
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Is it lonely there, on the wrong side of history?
No, it isn't. Gay sex isn't immoral, unethical, or anything like that, unlike child molestation. One is a type of "ignore the bully" approach with the other, you are giving child molesters an out.
Think about the concept of a Speakers' Corner. Someone can come up, gather a crowd and spread whatever message they want...to the people listening. Facebook is the ultimate extension of that...now anyone's opinion or rant, no matter how false, instantly arrives on the phones of millions of users. Because it comes from an "authoritative source" like Facebook, people will accept it as the truth. The speech itself isn't the dangerous part; it's the fact that people will blindly believe it's true.
People will say that people couldn't possibly be that stupid...but this election season I've heard some very interesting "facts" being shared by the more conservative people I work with. Older people especially grew up in the age of 3 network newscasts and a handful of newspapers of record providing the sole source of authoritative information. Average people absolutely don't get how computers, phones or Facebook work...they just know they work and accept the information coming in as facts.
The other problem is the echo chamber effect Facebook gives. If you're left wing or right wing, you're not going to have very many friends on the opposite side. So, you and your like-minded friends will share opinions that only appeal to your crowd. In that way, it acts like the comments section of a news website or talk radio. There is a narrow band of hardcore people who will spend hours and hours a day listening to conservative talk radio, and there is also a small group of people with the time and inclination to post rants on comment sections.
I'm of the opinion that our system works because we do have (or had) something of a filter on public rants and the spreading of misinformation. No one says we shouldn't criticize things, but having instant access to Facebook makes people shout louder because they can and it makes them feel better.
We need a Ministry of Truth
Because, in the vastness of the Universe, with the probably tens of millions of intelligent species, the one thing an omnipotent infinite being cares about is whether Stan and Gary get hitched.
Well of course God cares......Gary doesn't love Stan, he's just getting married for the money and the stability.
If you post as Anonymous Coward, don't expect a reply.
Facepalm already censors people in voluntary co-operation with government propaganda.
Go read their terms of service.
When you to the parts that explain how people the government puts on lists are unauthorized / not allowed to use the service, you are there.
That's why I get my news from Slashdot! ....
BHO is going waay extreme here.
... so now he's saying what exactly?
Facebook was just exposed for censoring conservative news
Facebook isn't biased in favor of liberals ENOUGH ??
Oh, boo.
That's just another manufactured "justification" that the religious fuckwads give for why they feel they have the right to dictate everyone's lives.
File it with the rest of the Manifest Destiny BS
Nullius in verba
God can only judge things down to the weight of a mustard seed. Anything smaller, like say atoms, are too small. Presumably that extends to the affairs of atoms or however they may choose to arrange into collections.
Nullius in verba
probably because of that whole story about Lot, his wife, and the city of Sodom. Controlling the masses is easier when you build a belief system that subscribes to indiscriminate smiting.
I really don't want Facebook deciding which stories are false and misleading and hiding them from me. I'm perfectly capable of making my own judgments and would prefer to see what the people I choose to interact with have to say.
Please, Facebook, just neutrally report the facts. If one of my friends shares a false or misleading story, that's a fact. I want to know that. It's not less important to me because it's false or misleading. It's as important to me because one of my friends chose to share it.
People use Facebook to talk to each other. If we want an environment with fact checkers, enforced political correctness, and truth police, we have Twitter.
Most social media is basically an eTabloid. People should trust it about as much as they would a paper one.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igER94QFe4I
Here's a copy of Obama's 2008 ad. Feel free to retract your false statement.
Accuses of. Criticizes for.
At the bottom of the
Facebook isn't spreading information any more than the blankets gave smallpox to the Indians. The people using the platform are the ones responsible for its spreading of misinformation. As long as idiots can't learn to think for themselves and do an occasional reality check, lies will win out every time. Facebook just allows it to happen more frequently, with a broader appeal, and a sheen of believability (is that a word?), since it comes "from" people you know. (even though in reality it comes from Palmer Lucky, who coincidentally was made a near billionaire with Facebook's money)
....the social media contains less dangerous bullshit. That is an empirically proven fact.
How did they bring civil war to Iraq ? By means of GLEICHSCHALTUNG of the "free press". "WMD" and so on.
FB acts like the prototypical German Police officer: "ID card please". So that your political opinions can be nicely put in a large database.
And of course they already perform a shitload of censorship, with or without political pressure.
FB is the tool of NY finance. Made by them for them.
Want something free ? Try USENET.
What he fails to mention is that most of the lies perpetuated on Facebook originate from the DNC.
I viewed the video clip and Barak Obama never said and never even suggested that illegals should vote.
Besides which, the whole idea is ridiculous. If you're not a citizen, you're not eligible to vote in federal elections. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ). You won't even appear on the voting roll unless somebody makes an administrative mistake. And that's quite uncommon, despite conspiracy theorist ramblings.
I might understand that you could have honestly missed that if you're not used to listening closely (unlike your average media person) and/or paying close attention to what is being said (unlike your average media person) or simply don't care much about getting your facts right (unlike your average media person). Or if you're too busy feeling indignant to pay attention but focus instead on getting a post out. But you're still wrong.
Your first amendment rights guarantee your right to spout nonsense (in good faith). Practicality virtually guarantees you won't be be prosecuted for slander. There are simply far too many people saying dumb things in good faith to be able to spot something who maliciously spreads disinformation.
However, this is the perfect illustration of what Obama means by Facebook posters muddying the waters. Except you're doing it on Slashdot instead of Facebook.
If anyone is using Facebook as their primary news sources....they are an idiot and reading news on a different aggregate site isn't going to change that. Mainstream news sources may not be perfect, but the main difference is that they are actually held liable if they public bullshit. Some random idiot giving you advice and opinion online (like this anonymous coward) is not.
The mainstream media is fully whoring themselves to whoever pays top dollar.
Here in Germany the crypto Marxists in the media have decided to badmouth Trump on almost every day. Clinton's deeds are meanwhile ignored and she is being glorified. NY Times and The Economist seem to be almost the same.
In the ongoing wars they lie to the public almost in the same degree as they lied when Iraq was destroyed.
Of course we have stupid stuff in the internet such as chemtrails, "aliens" and so on. But the internet has not made these outrageous wars happen.
Obama is just one of these agents of the rich, unpunishable criminals who run the Anglosaxon world. He sheds tears that he (or his friend Hillary) and his fellow bastards cannot plunge one more nation into deadly chaos.
The internet hates lies and works against them.
I challenge you to give the name of one prominent politician who's been in the public eye or news for at least 8 years with a shorter "lie list".
Table-ized A.I.
Professional lying is the key competence of Marxists, Maoists and related folks. Obama and Clinton are collectivists and they believe that a good amount of lying will bring "progress" to humanity and ultimately some sort of paradise. They learned this from the banksters, but what they did not learn is that lying only helps as long as you have a victim of the lies who will work for you. In the soviet union everbody lied and no work was done. So all were poor. THAT is what the Marxists and Mohammedists have in stock for us. Lies, misery and more misery.
Although it's rarely about that when the Bible says God judged a nation. I've come to the conclusion that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is one of the most misunderstood scripture references. People get caught up in the fact that it was men the town wanted to have sex with, and somehow overlook the fact that they weren't willing to take no for an answer. It was less about them all being gay rather than the entire town wanting to gang rape a couple of strangers.
And then we have verses like this that suggest that the tea partying Christian Right would be more at fault than the entire gay community if God himself were to come down today and start smiting:
Ezekiel 16:49 English Standard Version (ESV)
49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
The seeds of Maoism and KGB work are now in full bloom: Trump is being Godwinned almost every day, while Hillary is being heroized. In all mainstream media.
Same media corporations worked quite nicely with Adolf the Austrian. At least I am now enlightened how the past really worked.
Those only count if he posted them on Facebook, didn't you read the summary.
Which is kinda like "fake stories on Facebook"
Yep, I completely agree that the all the holy books from every religion are a lot like the fake stories on facebook. They can be entertaining, they may be educational, but if you base your entire life around them you are probably nuts.
All sex outside of marriage is 'immoral' according to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Speaking of history...
“I've now been in 57 states, I think, one left to go.”
“My father served in World War II, and when he came home, he got the services that he needed.” (At the end of WWII, Obama’s father was 10 years old.)
"If I talked to Iran, I'm going to tell them, 'You should develop a nuclear weapon...'"
"It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian..." (There is no Austrian language).
"The Qaddafi regime is over. Gbagbo, Ben Ali, Mubarak are no longer in power. Osama bin Laden is gone, and the idea that change could only come through violence has been buried with him."
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
Is it lonely there, on the wrong side of history?
Well, we're not all thrilled about the coming of a totalitarian society. Those who opposed Hitler were on the wrong side of history too... for a while. Purporting to know who is and isn't on the wrong side of history is so incredibly smug and arrogant. That attitude has changed me from a left-leaner to a right-leaner. If your political views have merit, put them out in the marketplace of ideas. Purporting that you already know who is right and who is wrong means you views probably don't have enough merit to stand up to scrutiny.
Slashdot doesn't edit posts, or at least very rarely edits posts, that's why it's not for the faint of heart, if some butt-wipe butchers the spelling, grammar and context of a post, that's what you get. Not everybody here is native English speakers either, but when you come across one, you can usually tell by the lack of spelling, grammar and logic mistakes.
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LMAO This professional liar tells fecesbook that they;re spreading lies? yet through wikileaks it is known that fecesbook is in full cahoots with the dnc
in the "cloud of nonsense"! How dare Obama disparage my network suite!
I'm absolutely positive this was a normal, everyday earthquake at Somom; add in the massive oil deposits everywhere and the reasonable explanation is earthquake + natural asphalt deposit = hellish explosion and destruction. No need for any angry supernatural entity.
"If you like your plan, you can keep your plan"?
"the whole thing" Which version? The original Hebrew? Latin? Aramaic? Greek? Which books? Is the Gospel of Thomas, Mary, Judas, etc included? Don't forget the original cantillation verse set too.
"All the bad stuff about Hillary is a lie, but Trump: no arguments here."
Chewbacon
The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
He didn't say he got your back. You're intentionally misrepresenting the statement to show it in the worst possible light. +5 bullshit!
Oh my god this.
I've got friends on the left, and friends on the right. I personally lean right.
I like the exchange of ideas. Sometimes I learn something new. occasionally, I'll change my opinion.
When I mention this to my leftist friends, invariably the response is "Great! We've got a lot you can learn." The assumption being they're the bastions of true knowledge.
The biggest lie of all was Obama's 2008 campaign. He ran as the most liberal candidate since Johnson, all the while planning on having the 8th and 9th terms of the Reagan Administration. So bringing this out:
Is kind of weak sauce next to promising to renegotiate NAFTA in public, while promising in private that it was mere campaign posturing. Or insisting that "any bill I sign must contain a public option" - months after he had already killed it for the hospital lobby. Molehill, meet mountain.
And those are the actual lies - some of things you rattled off happen to be 100% true.
Yes, when Republicans say "small business", what they really mean is a business with a small number of owners. Making even Koch Industries a "small business", despite being one of the worlds wealthiest private corporations.
Caity Mahoney?
Coming from a regime that frequently spreads propaganda, this is quite laughable.
President Obama, sir, on behalf of all intelligent Americans I beg you: declare martial law, arrest and execute Trump and all of his staff, proceed to door-to-door confiscation of all firearms NOW!!!
If they don't edit, they shouldn't be called editors. To not edit a front page story is about as far from professional as you can get.
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That's not an unfair assessment, predominately they elevate stories to the front page, but a lot of that is assisted or done automatically by the Firehose now and deal with the more obnoxious trolls.
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I agree that FB has posted a bunch of lies against Trump.
This should stop!
...and reject gossip and innuendo -- which, let's face it, is all Twitter and Facebook are.
Just like that nasty neighbor who likes to talk trash about people behind their backs, as adults we should be able to see it for what it is and ignore it.
Social media spreads free opinion;
Traditional media generates opinion;
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Then they're moderators, not editors. Mistakes like that smack of rank amateurism. They should be ashamed of themselves for doing such a terrible job.
And when will we be able to paste a paragraph from a newspaper without the text being mangled? This isn't the slashdot I used to know.
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