How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down

[booleandilemma]

Is anyone else getting tired of this term?

[sooheon]

I definitely am. Misinformation, propaganda, clickbait are all words with more specific semantics. Nothing incorrect about the term "fake news", just pretty information-sparse. It often ends up meaning "what I don't agree with, and wish to discredit with two words only"[1].

[1]: https://i.redd.it/8sf59bhhz5oz.jpg

[chewz]

‘rumor’ or ‘gossip’ it used to be

[rootsudo]

Besides the self inflicted drama, the most damning thing in the article is that Russian Intelligence was organizing events protesting immigrants in USA soil.

I feel that should've included more than an mention.

[rsynnott]

Well, it’s mentioned, what else are they going to do with it? It’s deserving of a story of its own, and people are writing those stories, but this particular story is about propaganda more broadly.

[blusterXY]

> "Later, it turned out that fake Facebook accounts linked to the Russian government helped to spread stories about Twin Falls and even organized one of the rallies there."

You should take this with a truckload of salt. There is zero mention of who exactly has "linked" what accounts to Russia, yet there have been repeated discredited claims that have shown that "suspicious" accounts are nothing more than people critical of Hillary Clinton and US imperialism in Syria.

[tambienben]

That's where I quit reading. "Fake news" indeed.

[esaym]

Cliffs:

Young girl is sexually assaulted buy foreign boys.

"The boys were from Sudan and Iraq"

"The family of the accused declined to comment."

[Roodgorf]

Those seem to ignore a lot of important details in the story. No mention of the exaggerated and outright falsified accounts of the story? Nor the baseless conspiracy theories about the town and city council? All of which led to death threats to many involved?