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Fake News Sites Are Changing Their Domain Name To Get Around Facebook Fact-Checkers (mashable.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Mashable: In order to avoid Facebook's fact checking system, the site formerly known as YourNewsWire, one of the most well-known purveyors of fake news online, has simply rebranded. The site now goes by News Punch and posts fake news content similar to what it published under their former name, according to a report by Poynter. YourNewsWire co-founders Sinclair Treadway and Sean Adl-Tabatabai, who reside in California, founded the site in 2014. The two completely migrated the website from the "yournewswire.com" domain name to "newspunch.com" in November 2018. Treadway told Bloomberg at the time that they move was made due to declining revenue thanks to Facebook's fact-checking system. Under this program, fact-checking outlets like Snopes are able to mark content posted on Facebook as false, which in turn decreases the site's reach on Facebook. According to the investigation, the workaround has been a success. Content that Poynter itself had found to be previously marked false on "yournewswire.com" was ported over to the "newspunch.com" domain. When shared on Facebook, that same fake news content that now lived on "newspunch.com" was not marked as false under the fact-checking program. Facebook is reportedly rolling out features to thwart the site's workaround.
American jackoffs with guns kill over 39,000 Americans per year.
You are welcome on my lawn.
This is factually accurate, supported by numerous studies and basic crime statistics where there is a body plus a person found guilty for the death.
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American jackoffs with guns kill over 39,000 Americans per year.
Are you somehow trying to be sarcastic, or something?
'cause the death by firearm yearly rate is about 13,000 in the US, not "over 39,000."
Why the inflation? I pulled 13,000 as a number after comparing multiple sources. How'd you get three times over?!
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
Unless you're reading a different claim than I am, according to Snopes the figure is based on a misreading of a GAO report which actually covered over 50 years (not 4) of arrest (not conviction) records.
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My figures come direct from the Center for Disease Control, which is part of the Executive Branch of the United States government. Would you care to tell us where your "13,000" figure comes from?
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/press...
https://www.statista.com/stati...
The "over 39.000" was what the Center for Disease Control reported for the calendar year 2018 as of December 28, 2018.
You are welcome on my lawn.
For those of you playing along at home, that statement is what's known as "bullshit".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
You are welcome on my lawn.
Especially with CNN
https://dailycaller.com/2018/0...
Or more to the point their deliberate fabrication of the news
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...
Or from 2008
https://www.politifact.com/fac...
Or last year
https://www.11alive.com/articl...
Or just in general
https://www.globalresearch.ca/...
And by the way, "up to nine months of pregnancy" is not the same as "born fully alive".
It's a baby and it's alive dude. It can survive on its own and there is no medical reason to kill the baby
Fucking idiot more than half are suicides . " jackoffs with guns kill over 39,000 Americans per year." There are NOT 39k people being killed by other people.
You're cherry-picking. 38.something K was ALL INJURIES to firearms, including suicides.
Homicides (that's ded dead, not injured) 14.4. Suicides the balance.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/...
Stop cherrypicking to try to improve your position. But I understand, it's human nature to do so.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
Look again. It's not "injuries". 39,000 was the number of DEATHS by firearm. Mortality means death.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/press...
You are welcome on my lawn.
1. You're not a "far left liberal", that's like describing someone describing themselves as an Anarcho-Trotskyite.
2. One of my pet peeves on Slashdot is how people intentionally misread something and pretend it said something else. The GP didn't say "CNN and MSNBC are objective and honest", he or she said "(They are) more honest and trustworthy than the actual frauds and liars(...)".
They are. Objectively they most certainly are more objective and honest than the bizarre mix of outlets your grandparents keeps forwarding links to on Facebook. They try to tell the truth most of the time. Sometimes they sensationalize, but that doesn't mean they're not trying to tell the truth. Sometimes they make mistakes. But that doesn't mean they're not trying to tell the truth. Sometimes they employ someone who sells them a bogus story. But that doesn't mean they're not trying to tell the truth. Yes, sometimes their biases steer them to report on some stories and ignore others, but that doesn't mean they're not trying to tell the truth.
Not even Rachel Maddow is likely sitting there thinking "What can I make up about President Trump and the Republicans today?" I know you're pretending to be a liberal, but those of us who are actually on the left actually get offended when we're given a fake scandal and we find it's fake, so those trying to get our respect don't do it. Sure, they'll hype up something you don't consider important, like stealing kids from legal asylum seekers and putting them in cages before sending them to be tortured, and ignore something you do consider important, like a random immigrant doing a crime, but there's a world of difference between that... and lying.
And it's the lying or lacking of lying, and the willingness to open up to mistakes, that makes CNN and MSNBC, imperfect than they are, more trustworthy than Breitbart.ru.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.