ZeroHedge reports that Buzz Feed, WaPo, and Soros backed Media jumped on a story about the Florida Shooter that turned out to be Fake News.
In the immediate aftermath of Wednesday’s tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida, several major news outlets published a report that the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, was a member of a white supremacist organization. In fact, the MSM was hoodwinked by 4chan users into publishing fake news.
In fact, the stories are still up despite the Broward County Sherriff’s department declaring that there are “no known ties” between the shooter and the hate group.
Which, as they point out, is hysterical, because Soros and company are tied to the genesis of the term Fake News as means to discredit online media out of hand.
And while the MSM’s enormous mistake was simply a case of terrible journalism, those very outlets participated in a seemingly coordinated effort to brand any media with a divergent opinion as “fake news,” with a little help from their friends.
In a recent TEDx talk at the University of Nevada, investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson revealed some of the earliest efforts to seed the phrase “fake news” into the public lexicon by a little nonprofit group funded in part by George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and Google.
The group, “First Draft,” announced a partnership on September 13, 2016 “to tackle malicious hoaxes and fake news reports,” said Attkisson. “The goal was supposedly to separate wheat from chaff, to prevent unproven conspiracy talk from figuring prominently in internet searches. To relegate today’s version of the alien baby story to a special internet oblivion.”
ZeroHedge has a lot more on the genesis of the Fake News phenomenon and how the left quickly lost control of their creation.
I think we all know what happened next. Fake News continued to come back to bite the Media over and over again because all along, they were the fake news.
