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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.
Probably by being more honest and trustworthy than the actual frauds and liars to the point they offer a product that isn't dependent on being a low-rent internet outfit with no real operations.
Yeah, I get it, you want us to hate CNN and swear by your own partisan devotional, but when your devoted leader is barely stringing two coherent sentences together, you don't actually have much appeal.
Do you have a citation for your assertion that fact checkers don't check the facts?
Also, if a site creates news that has not bearing on the truth that site should get black-holed in my opinion - even though they may have real news too. This is because otherwise you legitimize the made up shit by saying "But! They have real news too!"
--- Reality doesn't care about your opinions, it happens anyway and if you are in the way you'll get squished.
Fake news is a problem. But the bigger problem is a whole lot of Americans are too effing stupid to figure it out for themselves that it's fake.
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
Have gnu, will travel.
The difference between factcheckers (including sites like Snopes) is that they'll actually give checkable citations for the facts they check. And if someday you find an error, they'll publish a retraction/correction.
You're not going to get any retraction or correction from patriotictruth.ru
The problem with fact checking sites such as Snopes is *what* they cite to verify something to be true or not. Any bias on the part of the fact checkers will likely also bias what they cite. Feel free to mark this comment as "Troll", but Snopes isn't exactly unbiased.
Whataboutism. It neither addresses nor refutes the premise established by the other poster.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Nor should you expect it to be. Think about this: it doesn't matter the bias of the factchecker because everyone is biased. What matters is accuracy and accountability. Do they supply multiple sources for their claims? Are they willing to revisit and correct and retract? That's what it takes to be a reliable fact checker. It just so happens that there are more of such sites on the Left. And that, ultimately, is because there currently exists an ascendant class on the Right that benefits disproportionately from fake news. If you need me to provide citations and examples, I'd be happy to do so, but I'm guessing that you understand what I say is true.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Yeah what are you going to believe your lying eyes or your bias.
Uh, thank you?
And by the way, "up to nine months of pregnancy" is not the same as "born fully alive".
The new law does not allow aborting a pregnancy after the baby has been born. No part of the law says anything like that and saying that it does is a) bearing false witness, and b) blood libel. Also, fuck you and your god-bothering bullshit. If you want a christian version of sharia law that bad, there are countries you can go to.
You are welcome on my lawn.
When their fact checking is influenced by their bias they are nothing but biased editorial pushing a narrative.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...
Well that has zero credibility. Anything I read there would have to be independently verified. Post a sound source.
https://www.politifact.com/fac...
That says there was nothing wrong with the CNN footage.
https://www.11alive.com/articl...
Access denied from the server.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/...
Global research? That sounds super legit.
Well that's 0 for 4 on your side.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Not only do they go way up, but they go way, way, WAY up.
There is a definitive correlation between gun ownership rates and suicide rates.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/n...
You are welcome on my lawn.