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Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Low-quality, extremist, sensationalist and conspiratorial news published in the U.S. was overwhelmingly consumed and shared by rightwing social network users, according to a new study from the University of Oxford. The study, from the university's "computational propaganda project", looked at the most significant sources of "junk news" shared in the three months leading up to Donald Trump's first State of the Union address this January, and tried to find out who was sharing them and why. "On Twitter, a network of Trump supporters consumes the largest volume of junk news, and junk news is the largest proportion of news links they share," the researchers concluded. On Facebook, the skew was even greater. There, "extreme hard right pages -- distinct from Republican pages -- share more junk news than all the other audiences put together." The research involved monitoring a core group of around 13,500 politically-active U.S. Twitter users, and a separate group of 48,000 public Facebook pages, to find the external websites that they were sharing.
How did Trump obstruct justice?
> FBI people investigating Trump for high crimes are not "liberals" anyway
No? They are certainly democrats, and not moderate democrats by any stretch. They absolutely hate Trump, they are extremely biased.
And the FBI has been extremely corrupt and dishonest in this so-called "investigation."
The FBI got a FISA warrant to spy on Trump, by using fabricated evidence paid for by Hillary. The FBI withheld this material evidence from the FISA court, and pretending the "evidence" in the dossier was corroborated by a news article, when actually the news article was planted by Christopher Steele.
> so the inference that because Liberals stand for accountability
I hope you are trolling. I would hate to think that anybody is *that* stupid. Where is the accountability for Hillary's crimes?
There is zero evidence against Trump. Nothing what-so-ever.
Hillary? Where to begin? She stole the nomination. She conspired with CNN to rig the debate. She paid for the BS dossier which was used to illegally get a FISA warrant to illegally spy on the republicans. She eradicated 30K emails that under subpoena. And I could go on.
The anti Trump cabal has a laundry list of crimes well documented on PUBLIC RECORD (you don't even need a special investigator just someone who cares). How can you compare Trump 'financial speculation' (guilty until proven innocent it seems) -- to using bleachbit and hammers to destroy evidence/unencrypted server with classified materials/IRS targeting/pay for play/Benghazi/Haiti crimes/Uranium One/FISA abuse to name a few.. And now including collusion with Russia!!! Using DOJ/FBI/Fusion GPS/Steele-discredited-dossier to overturn an election. If and when proven may actually constitute treason; yet the LEFT wing MSM drones on with mindless propaganda which only the most feeble/lazy/hateful minds consume.
General Flynn was an honorable man. I don't know what he did to make the dark state so angry - but clearly he did *something* to precipitate his purge. I believe he was trying to protect the Republic from its many enemies within.
Impeding abuse of power (18USC 242 https://www.law.cornell.edu/us... ) is never a crime. The entire Trump Russia investigation was predicated on the 100% false Steele Dossier, bought by the Clinton campaign and created by Russian agents feeding misinformation to Steele (try to keep up CrankyFool)... Stop slurping up the shit being shoved by the MSM and actually read it: https://www.politico.com/story...
The only collusion in the last election was by the Clinton campaign and Obama administration, DOJ and FBI using an un-verified, demonstrably false report created by a foreign agent (Michael Steele) as an excuse to spy on an opposition candidate and then president elect Donald Trump. It was 100% illegal and I guarantee some people are going to jail, but it will be Democrats who do the frog march, regardless of how much bullshit is shoveled out by the Dims and sprayed around by the MSM. You will never get the truth so long as your lips are glued to the ass of MSNBC.
The American people have no faith in the MSM these days because the MSM don't give a shit about the truth, only furthering their ideology, and they are burying the truth in the hopes that nothing comes of it, but without the Obama DOJ covering their asses, the Democrats illegal abuses of power are going to explode in their collective faces.
The wheels of justice grind slowly forward.
If you disagree, please post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like
Our problem with school performance has nothing to do with spending. I can push US schools to new highs with the following steps, but it would cripple the funding of the Democrat political party:
- Institute a federal school voucher system. Force the states to kick the cash to the federal government for any parent who wants a voucher. Vouchers are valid at any school that is accredited, no other strings attached. Homeschoolers get 100% coverage of all school supplies, books and any related expenses, including field trips, up to the total annual voucher. There would still be shit schools where parents who didn't care would send their kids, but that happens already, at least this way, the parents who did care (which is hardwired biologically) would make a significant positive difference.
- Eliminate the NEA and all teachers unions.
- Privatize all schools and require them to operate as non-profits with a cap of 3x local average salary for any employee and institute parental oversight on all expenditures each year. Require all finances to be published monthly.
- Require all immigrants to speak English fluently or attend a 6 month immersion course before entering regular school. Require all courses to be taught only in English, except when teaching a foreign language specifically.
I guarantee you that the US would rise dramatically in the scholastic rankings because that is what works phenomenally well when tested. Smart kids will excel, and lower IQ kids will attend trade schools so they actually have a marketable skill when they graduate (not everyone is a rocket scientist, and there is no harm in admitting that or benefit to pretending that they are.)
If you disagree, please post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like
Here. Fixed that for you. It is amazing how the concepts of tolerance and freedom of speech have "evolved" these last couple of decades: "What I dislike is fake news, you dimwitted rightwing bastards!"
Yhea, and because the academics are so good in critical thinking they allow the SJW to rule.
Has anyone here ever read something about the communist revolution? You know who started the dissent? The children of the intelligentsia. Misguided idealistic (what we would call middle class) kids who wanted to fight for the rights of ANOTHER group, in this case the peasants. Russia was a super religious totalitarian hell hole at that time and sure enough the peasant were suffering. The western world was gaining speed because of the various freedoms which the Russians could only dream of. So the kids protested. Things did not change much. Then they started killing people (for those that think that "kill all white men" can never happen in reality). The powers that be only got tougher and more consolidated. Then the revolution came. Guess what happened with the intelligentsia when the oppressed low brow proletariat took power? Raped, tortured, killed. Enjoy!
Until today the Russians can recognize if one is a descendant of the peasants or the intelligentsia. No love lost there...
And so, the academics that are so high and mighty shrink away from the swastika but embrace the hammer and sickle. What critical thinking is involved in the endless stream of fallacious logic, emotion-based reactions, hysteria and fake news in support the division of the western world that would surely lead to disaster? Do you people know how ridiculous this is to anyone from a former communist state who possesses more than two brain cells?
I've been a leftie since forever but in the last 10 years it happened that I was too busy to pay much attention to politics. Every time a claim came from the left about those terrible imperialist businessmen and politicians I bought it and shook my head in disgust how low the world is sinking. Until I got more time on my hands and went and looked into the claims of the left. The horror! These people have abandoned science and reason along the way and had turned into ideologically possessed hysterics. Freedom of speech is bad if you don't say what I like. Biology is wrong (equity, people are identical rather than equal). History, anthropology, biochemistry, genetics, evolution...nothing matters. The politics on campus is dictated not by the science departments but the humanities. What critical thinking?????
The central tenet, the core of this ideology is that every difference in outcome between people is solely due to oppression and privilege. Is there anyone here who is an idiot enough to believe this claim? What critical thinking?????
Fake news from the left do not exists, you say? How about the now infamous interview of JBP on Channel 4? Has anyone of you, nerds, imagined how low the ideologically possessed can sink? See for yourselves - https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I know you will be embarrassed for that woman but bear with it - one day this will enter history books as the most illustrative example of the cognitive dissonance in a hysterical ideologue. It was so obvious that JP switched to clinical approach and was treating her as a patient.
Next day 15 lefty news outlets report that Cathie the lobster needed security experts to evaluate the "death threats" by the "army of alt-right internet trolls of Peterson". Only....there were no death threats and someone counted the ratio between the hate messages JBP and the lobster received and it was 30:1 for JBP. It was the lefties that broke the law on numerous occasions on campus to shut free speech. Triggering fire alarms, wearing masks, blasting with vuvuvzelas....and they receive overwhelming support form those critically thinking academics in the humanities!
Europe is in a fight over a legislation called the Istanbul Convention ATM. It's about encouraging sexual dysfunctions in children among many other nefarious things. Pediatricians are against it. Biologists, chemists, physicists, mathematicians and engineers are against it (in my country there was te
Which in this case is those trying to discredit the investigation. They not only need to prove that there was something improper about the warrant
There is nothing to prove there: there is something improper about the warrant. Those who filed the application used fabricated evidence and they knew it. Maybe the application would have been successful even without the forged evidence (the Steele dossier, the Yahoo News article etc.), but that does not change the fact that someone willingly tried to deceive the FISA judge. I repeat it, because it seems that many here do not get it: someone used fabricated evidence knowingly to get a FISA warrant. That is a very serious, concerning fact by itself.
The validity of the warrant is a further step that must be addressed, but it is a different problem.
they also need to prove that the alleged impropriety of the warrant is relevant to the Mueller investigation
Don't go too far. Right now the situation is: someone conspired to fabricate evidence to get a FISA warrant (proved fact). Then there could be an invalid FISA warrant (unproved fact) and even a bogus investigation (unproved fact). But those are further steps.
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