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What is "fake news"? That's a
simple one ... "fake news" is not news at all, but rather is information
presented to you which cannot be verified or does not prove out over time and/or
which is blatantly untrue at the outset. Mere errors, of course, are not
considered fake news since they are simply mistakes made by humans.
If you are a person who believes that the media deals only in "fake news", all
you have to do is follow a story from beginning to end (say, for example, from
2015 through the most current date) to see what the outcome of a story is. Did
it prove out? Did it fall apart? This is a much more accurate way to verify
information than trusting a friend or other individual to provide information to
you. You may trust your friend, but people do make mistakes. Also some people lie,
and some people base their beliefs on opinions rather than on truth.
How to tell the difference between real news and fake
news? One example of both is Fox. If you watch carefully, you'll see that Fox
has well-respected real news broadcasts (for example Fox News Sunday with Chris
Wallace) but also produces separate "news/entertainment" programs called "opinion news" (for
example Sean Hannity). This mixture gives the impression that "opinion news" is
the same as real news. It's not, of course.
"Opinion news" is information based on what the host and others in that particular broadcast believe --
which may or may not be factual information. It's up to the opinions viewer-listener-reader to
carefully discern which is entertainment and which is factual, appreciating real news for its accuracy and
perhaps enjoying opinion news for its personal opinions which you may or may not
share.
Most standard news broadcasters (for example
NYTimes,
NBC, Fox
News,
ABC,
CBS,
CNN,
PBS) specialize in real news. Real news sometimes has mistakes and may include
opinions, yes, but since real news is carefully vetted for facts, real news is something
you can generally trust. Opinions (yours, mine, TV or internet opinions) are
always suspect, even when they might be noted within a standard news broadcast.
Therefore, we must all resist getting caught up in unvetted opinions and
instead look for the facts of any story [do a little informed research] and ignore the personal comments.
For some good notes about the difference between real news and opinion news, See 2017 October 20
link below for article by Fox's respected Chris Wallace commenting on the
"news side" vs the "opinion side" of Fox (simply using Fox Opinions as an
example, although there are many other news media presenting "Opinion News"),
or the 2018 March 17 article about an
internal Fox disagreement.
Or you might be interested in seeing our Net Neutrality page, December 15, 2017
for Real News compared to an opinion at December 16, 2017, both from Fox.
Do "real news" reporters also inject opinion? Of course they do,
because a bit of opinion makes a story more readable. But the basics of their
reporting must be carefully vetted for accuracy to prevent the report from
straying into the arena of "opinion news". It can be tough to distinguish, but
careful study makes it absolutely possible.
The rest of this page presents links to news articles.
-- 2016 --
Undated: "Fake
news," a form of propaganda, is nothing new, but it is far more widespread today
than it used to be. Thanks to the internet and social media, information that
decades ago might have been heard or read by relatively few can now reach
millions of people around the world in a matter of minutes. Sadly, this is also
true for misinformation. This has become a growing problem, with serious
consequences.
Being able to evaluate the accuracy of what you read or hear, and refraining
from spreading false stories, will help you and others avoid the repercussions
of fake news.
https://www.consumer-action.org/english/articles/fake_news?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIudS869jv2QIVhDVpCh2y7AABEAAYBCAAEgL7w_D_BwE
June 29: In covering a story, a media outlet
is not finding guilt. It is simply reporting the news [for example, when a
lawsuit has been filed against Mr. Trump], and ideally putting the complaint in
context. Unproven allegations are just that - unproven, and should be identified
that way. ... Proof [one way or the other] comes later, at trial. But the November election will
come well before any trial. And while Mr. Trump is presumed innocent, we are
permitted — no, we are obligated — to analyze [a] case’s viability ....
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html
-- 2017 --
January 6: ...
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a declassified
report on Russia’s interference in the U.S. presidential election Friday
afternoon, hours after briefing President-elect Donald Trump on its contents.
The report states that the CIA, the FBI, and NSA all believe that Russian
President Vladimir Putin “ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the
U.S. presidential election.”
The intelligence community
believes Russia’s goals “were to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic
process, denigrate Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, and harm her electability and
potential presidency.” The Russian government, the report states, “developed a
clear preference for President-elect Trump” over his Democratic rival. [Trump has continued with ongoing efforts to denigrate Hillary and others
via his volatile rhetoric]
https://news.vice.com/story/top-u-s-intelligence-officials-release-declassified-report-on-russian-election-hacking
February 1: Why
Your Brain May Be Wired To Believe Fake News
https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2017/02/01/why-your-brain-may-be-wired-to-believe-fake-news/#ed9f66414642
February 16: Trump Defends Mike
Flynn, Blasts ‘Fake News’ and Leaks
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-defends-mike-flynn-blasts-fake-news-administration-leaks-n721906
May 22: ...
former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper ...
called for "educating" Americans about the use of disinformation and for a
major push at "counter-messaging" by Washington. ... Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,
wants the United States to impose a "cost" on Russian leaders so they don't feel
they can interfere without penalty.
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/23/528500501/lies-forgery-and-skulduggery-the-long-history-of-active-measures
May 28: President Trump on Sunday said
he believes many of the recent leaks coming out of his White House are made up
by the "fake news" media.
In a series of tweets, the president focused on news reports that include the
words "sources say."
"It is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the White House are
fabricated lies made up by the
media," the president tweeted Sunday.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/335453-trump-many-leaks-are-fabricated-lies-made-up-by-fake-news-media
June 28: There's a Time magazine cover photo
featuring Donald Trump hanging in at least five of his golf clubs. The only
problem ... is that no such cover exists. ... There was no March 1, 2009,
issue of Time magazine. And there was no issue at all in 2009 that had Trump on
the cover. ... Time [Magazine] confirms the fake.
This (relatively) small episode [of Trump faking a Time Magazine cover] is illustrative of two important things
about Donald Trump:
1. He has a flexible definition of "true"
2. He's willing to use the credibility of the media to boost himself when it
serves his purposes
What we know about Trump is that for his entire adult life he has created the
reality he wants around him -- and then insisted, over and over again, it is the
only reality.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/28/politics/trump-time-magazine/index.html
June 28: From his decision to adopt a
nom de plume ("John Barron")
to talk about his exploits in New York City's social scene to
his insistence that Barack Obama might not have been born in America to his
testimonial that he
remembered seeing Muslims celebrating on the rooftops on Sept. 11, 2001 to
his contention that
he had the largest inauguration crowds or that
3 to 5 million illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election, Trump's
definition of "truth" is decidedly erratic.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/28/politics/trump-time-magazine/index.html
July 9: Everything Trump has called "FAKE
NEWS" [on the Axios page, click on the arrow down labeled "The Full List"]
https://www.axios.com/everything-trump-has-called-fake-news-1513303959-6603329e-46b5-44ea-b6be-70d0b3bdb0ca.html
August 4: The FBI monitored social media on
Election Day last year to track a campaign of "fake news," believed to be
orchestrated by Russia to benefit the Trump campaign, according to a report
Friday
... dozens of agents and analysts were stationed at a command center watching
social media feeds sharing stories thought to be part of a Russian
disinformation campaign.
Many of the stories, shared on Facebook and Twitter, were used to spread viral
news stories focused on making false claims about Hillary Clinton, the
Democratic nominee for president.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fbi-monitored-social-media-on-election-day-for-fake-news-about-hillary-clinton-report/article/2630671
October 2:
The same day Facebook handed over to Congress ads allegedly purchased by Russian
operatives meant to influence the 2016 election, the company also said that it
is planning to hire 1,000 new staffers to monitor [fake news] ads purchased on
the social network.
https://news.vice.com/story/facebook-is-hiring-1000-more-people-to-block-fake-news-ads
October 5: President Trump early Thursday
questioned why the Senate Intelligence Committee wasn't investigating "Fake News
Networks."
"Why Isn't the Senate Intel Committee looking into the Fake News Networks in OUR
country to see why so much of our news is just made up-FAKE!"
His tweets come after the leaders of the panel said Wednesday
it is still investigating whether there was any collusion between the Trump
campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential race.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/353982-trump-why-isnt-senate-intel-committee-looking-into-fake-news-networks
October 5:
http://rabbisternfield.com/2017/10/05/fake-news-big-lie/
October 20: Fox News host Chris Wallace is
slamming his counterparts on Fox's opinion side for their criticism of the media
in the Trump era.
“It bothers me,” Wallace said. “If they want to say they like Trump, or that
they’re upset with the Democrats, that’s fine. That’s opinion. That’s what they
do for a living.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/356374-chris-wallace-slams-fox-colleagues-for-attacks-on-the-media
December 11: Donald Trump’s “Fake News”
Tactics ... In attacking the media, the President has in many ways strengthened
it.
[Since December 2016, Trump] has tweeted about fake news more than a hundred and
fifty times
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/donald-trumps-fake-news-tactics
December 12: In response to President Donald
Trump's repeated attacks against the media, CNN's Jake Tapper highlighted the
president's own hypocrisy and how he is often the one most guilty of
promulgating "fake news."
He added, "The White House run by the president who said with no evidence that
crowds of American Muslims were seen on TV celebrating in New Jersey after 9/11,
the man who repeated the ludicrous National Enquirer claim that Ted Cruz's
father had something to do with the Kennedy assassination and the man who has
said with no evidence that there were three to five million fraudulent votes for
Hillary Clinton, that same president is taking issue with people being misled."
https://www.salon.com/2017/12/12/jake-tapper-slams-trumps-fake-news-hypocrisy-in-must-see-video/
December 13: Senator John McCain again
called out President Trump for his anti-media rhetoric.
In a tweet Wednesday afternoon, McCain shared a new
report from the Committee to Protect Journalists that says the number of
journalists imprisoned around the world has reached 262, a new record.
The total includes 21 reporters being held on "false news" charges.
The president "must understand his harmful rhetoric only empowers repressive
regimes to jail reporters & silence the truth," McCain wrote.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/13/media/john-mccain-press-freedom/index.html
December 24: Trump attacks 'fake polls and
fake news' as reports say he has worst approval rating in modern history ... No
president has had such poor ratings - at least going back to Harry Truman
Donald Trump has attacked “fake polls” and “fake news” as
surveys show he enters the holiday season with the
lowest approval rating in modern presidential history.
“The Fake News refuses to talk about how Big and how Strong our BASE is,” he
wrote on Twitter, displaying his trademark affection for the use of capital
letters.
“They show Fake Polls just like they report Fake News. Despite only negative
reporting, we are doing well - nobody is going to beat us. MAKE AMERICA GREAT
AGAIN.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-tweet-fake-polls-news-lowest-approval-rating-historic-latest-a8127316.html
December 24: Trump: Tax reform ends 'an
incredible year' and 'don't let the Fake News convince you otherwise'
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-tax-reform-ends-an-incredible-year-and-dont-let-the-fake-news-convince-you-otherwise/article/2644333
-- 2018 --
January 7: President Donald Trump said on
Sunday that the "fake news awards" he teased recently will be postponed, saying
interest had exceeded his expectations.
"The Fake News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of the
Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on Wednesday, January 17th,
rather than this coming Monday," the president wrote on Twitter. "The interest
in, and importance of, these awards is far greater than anyone could have
anticipated!"
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/07/trump-fake-news-awards-327285
January 16: To mark the president’s pending
announcement of “THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR,” we
compiled a partial list of Trump’s phony “fake news” claims from last year.
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/01/trumps-phony-fake-news-claims/
January 17: The “winners” of Trump’s fake
news awards ... The “highly anticipated” list was basically a roundup of
since-corrected reporting errors.
[The official Republican National Committee website stated] “2017 was a year of
unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news,”
the
introduction read. “Studies have shown that over 90% of the media’s coverage
of President Trump is negative.” [the website actually noted only 10 news
items for all of 2017 which had errors]
The aftermath of the stories listed also shows news organizations’ commitment to
setting the record straight. In almost every case, media outlets issued
corrections. When reporters made mistakes, they acknowledged them repeatedly. In
one instance, the reporters and editors involved resigned.
https://www.vox.com/2018/1/17/16871430/trumps-fake-news-awards-annotated
January 26: Donald Trump booed [at the World
Economic Forum] at Davos after attacking 'nasty, mean, fake' press ...
President's comments met with mixture of jeers and laughs from audience
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-booed-davos-2018-jeered-fake-news-media-speech-us-president-wef-latest-a8179471.html
January 26:
Fox News host and
Trump
loyalist
Sean Hannity was forced in an awkward position Thursday night when his own
network confirmed a
New York Times story about the president he was trying to deflect.
https://article.wn.com/view/2018/01/26/Sean_Hannitys_reaction_to_New_York_Times_report_Trump_ordere/
January 26: Sorry, Mr. President, the 'fake
news' excuse isn't good enough anymore ... The reporting that Trump had ordered
Mueller's firing is
a) deeply sourced
b) confirmed -- after being first broken by The New York Times -- by a number of
serious and credible media outlets and
c) very detailed as to how and why Trump moved to fire Mueller.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/26/politics/trump-fake-news-mueller-analysis/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
January 30: Going into Tuesday night's
speech, PolitiFact had labeled 69% of Trump's pubic remarks as ranging from
"Mostly False" to "Pants on Fire" wrong.
-- True → 4 percent
-- Mostly True → 12 percent
-- Half True → 15 percent
-- Mostly False → 21 percent
-- False → 33 percent
-- Pants on Fire → 15 percent
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/jan/30/fact-checking-donald-trumps-2018-state-union-speec/
January 30: President Donald Trump's
first State of the Union address proved too much for non-partisan
fact-checking site PolitiFact Tuesday night. The website saw its servers crash
for six minutes during the President's speech.
The site, which is run from a reporting team at the Florida-based Tampa Bay
Times and owned by the non-profit Poynter Institute, crashed at 9:49 p.m. ET,
about halfway through Trump's 80-minute long speech.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/politics/politifact-crash-state-of-the-union-2018/index.html
February 15:
Trump's Fake News ... Deep breaths and fact-checking might save America.
Donald Trump tends to call whatever he dislikes "fake news," from
inconvenient facts to unfavorable reporting. Even though the President himself
is less a font of truth and more a spigot of self-serving exaggeration and
insults.
But Trump isn't all wrong when he labels reporting against him as fictitious
or slanted. Reporters have become so enraged with the President that in their
hurry to lambaste him, they sometimes forget about fact checking and standard
quality controls.
Here are just a few stories which turned out to be exaggerated or wrong.
https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/02/15/fake-news-trump-mostly-weekly
February 17: Trump pushes back against 'Fake
News Media' coverage of Russian meddling
A federal grand jury on Friday indicted 13 Russians and three Russian companies
for allegedly interfering in the 2016 presidential election, in a case brought
by FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller that detailed a plot to “sow discord in
the U.S. political system.”
[Trump] quote-retweeted the vice president of Facebook ads, Rob Goldman,
who had written that the majority of the Russian spending on ads occurred after
the election, and that swaying the election was not the main goal of those ads.
“The Fake News Media never fails,” Trump tweeted, presumably referring to
coverage he believes has played down those details.
Goldman, however, had gone on to clarify that “the Russian campaign was
certainly in favor of Trump.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/17/trump-pushes-back-against-fake-news-media-coverage-russian-meddling.html
February 22: Trump cries 'Fake News' on CNN
and NBC saying he'd arm teachers, then says arming teachers would 'solve the
problem instantly'
"I never said 'give teachers guns' like was stated on Fake News @CNN & @NBC."
Tweeted Trump on Thursday morning, referring to a listening session he held with
high school teachers and students on Wednesday.
"What I said was to look at the possibility of giving 'concealed guns to gun
adept teachers with military or special training experience - only the best," he
said in a follow-up tweet. 20% of teachers, a lot, would now be able to
immediately fire back if a savage sicko came to a school with bad intentions.
Highly trained teachers would also serve as a deterrent to the cowards that do
this. Far more assets at much less cost than guards. A 'gun free' school is a
magnet for bad people. ATTACKS WOULD END!"
"Trump suggests arming teachers to prevent school shootings," a headline on NBC
News' homepage read on Thursday morning. "Trump suggests arming teachers as a
solution to increase school safety," a CNN headline ran.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cries-fake-news-cnn-nbc-coverage-concealed-carry-2018-2?r=UK&IR=T
February 23: Trump's Biggest Boast Is Also
His Saddest: He Really Believes The News Media Need Him
He also told the audience--as he has done before--that despite his relentless
and often personal attacks on journalists, members of the news media would
ultimately vote for his reelection in 2020. "The media will absolutely support
me," Trump said, directing his attention to the reporters and photographers
gathered at the back of the ballroom. "All those horrible people back there."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2018/02/23/trumps-biggest-boast-is-also-his-saddest-he-really-believes-the-news-media-need-him/#6977f7e47504
February 26: How Trump Weaponized 'Fake
News' for His Own Political Ends
Fake news has become one more way for the president to distort truth. But the
worst of what passes for it has little to do with press.
https://psmag.com/social-justice/how-trump-weaponized-fake-news-for-his-own-political-ends
February 28: Fox News, like many media
outlets, attempts to separate its news and opinion divisions, and there are
often
sharp differences in the ways that issues are presented on shows like
Hannity's and on news programs such as “Fox News Sunday” and “Special Report.”
Yet Hannity and some of his fellow opinion hosts promote the idea that Fox
News's prime-time slate, filled with pro-Trump commentary, is not merely a take
on the news but, rather, a model of what the news should look like.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/27/sean-hannity-as-edward-r-murrow-fox-news-opinion-hosts-style-their-shows-as-actual-journalism/?utm_term=.221126b4c425
March 8: Sinclair TV Group Requires Local
News Anchors to Echo President Trump in Bashing 'Fake News'
The script, which is required to be read during news time rather than using up
commercial spots, includes anchors saying they’re “extremely proud of the
quality, balanced journalism that [proper news brand name of local station]
produces.” The anchors are then supposed to follow by saying, “But I’m [we are]
concerned about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories
plaguing our country.”
The message continues: “The sharing of biased and false news has become all too
common on social media. More alarming, national media outlets are publishing
these same fake stories without checking facts first. Unfortunately, some
members of the national media are using their platforms to push their own
personal bias and agenda to control ‘exactly what people think’ … This is
extremely dangerous to our democracy ...”
A staffer who wished to remain anonymous told CNN that everyone at the station
was uncomfortable reading the script. While the message isn’t explicitly
political in nature, many feel the message of “fake news” echos President Donald
Trump’s often-inaccurate accusation about “fake news.”
http://fortune.com/2018/03/08/sinclair-media-group-fake-news/
March 9: Fake news spreads faster on Twitter
than real news, study says
Fake news tends to have the real news beat in one area: novelty. That's why
Twitter users can't help but share half-truths and unchecked rumors over the
platform, say a trio of MIT researchers who conducted the
study.
Fake political news was especially viral. These stories ended up reaching over
20,000 people faster than what other false news categories could do.
"When we estimated a model of the likelihood of retweeting, we found that
falsehoods were 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than the truth," the
authors added.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/03/09/fake-news-spreads-faster-on-twitter-than-real-news-study-says.html
March 11: Mimicking Trump, local officials
use 'fake news' as a weapon
http://www.startribune.com/mimicking-trump-local-officials-use-fake-news-as-a-weapon/476478763/
March 12: Trump’s “fake news” smear is
starting to have dangerous consequences
Trump’s neologism is being appropriated to propagandize around the world
https://www.salon.com/2018/03/12/trumps-fake-news-smear-is-starting-to-have-dangerous-consequences/
March 15: FOX NEWS FIRST: White House
'bloodbath' could come with more Trump changes
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/15/fox-news-first-white-house-bloodbath-could-come-with-more-trump-changes-inside-obama-fusion-gps-ties.html
March 15: Did Trump just call a
Fox News report fake news?
When President Trump
proposed
the awarding of a “fake news trophy,” he exempted Fox News from consideration
because, as he has said many times, he views the network as one of the only
media outlets that covers him fairly.
But the president appeared to take a rare shot at Fox News on Thursday when he
complained about a “very false” article.
Trump briefly answered questions from a small contingent of reporters in the
Oval Office ..., including one inquiry about whether he would make additional
staff changes.
“The story was very false,” Trump said, without identifying a specific story. “I
mean they wrote a story about staff changes today that was very false. We made a
wonderful change. I think Mike Pompeo is going to be an incredible secretary of
state. We have some wonderful ideas. ... There will always be change but very
little. It was a very false story. It was very — a very exaggerated and false
story.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/03/15/even-fox-friends-cant-abide-kellyanne-conways-latest-media-attack/?utm_term=.842157ea988e
March 17: The divide between Fox News
Channel's opinion programming and the network's news division boiled over into
public view this week, with Sean Hannity, the face of the cable news channel's
prime time lineup, and Laura Ingraham, publicly sniping on Friday at Shepard
Smith, the outlet's chief news anchor.
On Friday, Hannity
tweeted that Smith was "clueless" about what Hannity does on his show each
night. Hannity said he counted Smith as a friend and respected his ability to
deliver breaking news, but wrote that Smith held "political views I do not
share." In the past, Hannity
has called Smith "so anti-Trump."
... Smith was sharply critical of the Fox News opinion bloc. He said the hosts
on the opinion side "don't really have rules" they need to follow, and remarked
that some of the opinion programming on Fox News "is there strictly to be
entertaining."
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/16/media/shep-smith-sean-hannity/index.html
April 11: A pornographic video that falsely
claimed to show Hillary Clinton engaged in a sex act has been traced back to an
account that Reddit
acknowledged on Tuesday is linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency.
The account, Rubinjer, was
the Russia-linked agency’s most popular account on Reddit and received
almost 100,000 upvotes, or Reddit’s version of Facebook’s “likes,” in its
lifecycle before it was shut down by the site.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/russia-linked-account-pushed-fake-hillary-clinton-sex-video-n864871
June 19: President Trump digs in on false
claim that crime on rise in Germany
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trump-digs-false-claim-crime-rise-germany/story?id=56001471&cid=clicksource_4380645_1_hero_headlines_headlines_hed
July 13: Fox News’ John Roberts Defends CNN
After Trump Refuses Question from ‘Fake News’
“Let’s go to a real network.” ... That’s what President Donald Trump said during
a
joint press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday
after refusing to take a question from
his perpetual target, CNN’s Jim Acosta. Instead, he called on John Roberts
from Fox News.
“CNN is fake news,” Trump said ,,, “I don’t take questions from CNN.” ...
Roberts went on to defend NBC News correspondents Kristen Welker, who Trump
called “dishonest” during the same press conference for asking about his
contentious relationship with NATO allies. “She is honest as the day is long,”
Robert said of Welker. “For the President to call her dishonest is unfair.”
“I also used to work at CNN,” he added. “There are some fine journalists who
work there and risk their lives to report on stories around the world. To issue
a blanket condemnation of the network as ‘fake news’ is also unfair.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-john-roberts-defends-cnn-after-trump-refuses-question-from-fake-news
July 30: Berlin court demands far-right
party correct claim that German funds went to Clinton campaign
A far-right political party in Germany must issue a correction after asserting
German funds were indirectly funneled to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 2016
election campaign, according to a Berlin court order.
Alternative for Germany must post a statement to their website claiming that
Germany’s environment ministry “paid no money whatsoever to support the election
campaign of Hillary Clinton,”
the Associated Press reports.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/berlin-court-demands-far-right-party-correct-claim-that-german-funds-went-to-clinton-campaign-report
July 30:
Georg Pazderski, leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AFD) party,
was ordered to scrub its website of the accusation and issue a correction
stating that the German ministry "paid no money whatsoever to support the
election campaign of Hillary Clinton,” Deutsche
Welle news reported Monday.
The court ruled that the false accusations recklessly jeopardized “public
confidence" in the federal ministry by making the claim that a German agency had
intervened in the U.S. election.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/399618-german-court-orders-far-right-party-to-retract-claim-that
July 30: The [AFD] party had claimed
[millions of] German government funds intended for climate-related projects in
Africa overseen by the charitable Clinton Foundation had gone to Clinton’s
election campaign.
Alternative for Germany, which welcomed Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory and
wants international sanctions against Russia lifted, didn’t immediately respond
to a request for comment.
https://apnews.com/c73194c256ee4265a1e7032f8f6dfa81
October 12: Trump: 'We’ve learned how to
live with' the 'fake news' med
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/411227-trump-weve-learned-how-to-live-with-the-fake-news-media
October 25:
Fox News’ Chris Wallace condemns Trump’s anti-media rhetoric when given free
speech award
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/fox-news-chris-wallace-condemns-trumps-anti-media-rhetoric-when-given-free-speech-award
November 2: President
Trump accused
the media Friday of “creating violence” by publishing and broadcasting false
stories.
Asked by a reporter at the White House if his campaign rhetoric incites
violence, Mr.
Trump retorted, “No. You know what? You’re creating violence by your
question. You are … you.”
He said “a lot of reporters are creating violence by not writing the truth.”
“The fake news is creating violence,”
Mr. Trump
said. “The people that support
Trump and the
people that support us, which is a lot of people — most people, many people —
those people know when a story is true and they know when a story is false.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/2/trump-says-fake-news-creating-violence/
November 12: You thought fake news was bad?
Deep fakes are where truth goes to die
Technology can make it look as if anyone has said or done anything. Is it the
next wave of (mis)information warfare?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/12/deep-fakes-fake-news-truth
November 12: All False statements involving
Donald Trump
https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/false/
November 21: President Donald Trump slammed
the news media on Wednesday, saying the press was blaming him for traffic jams
ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.
"You just can’t win with the Fake News Media," he wrote. "A big story today is
that because I have pushed so hard and gotten Gasoline Prices so low, more
people are driving and I have caused traffic jams throughout our Great Nation.
Sorry everyone!"
Earlier, the president said oil prices were getting lower and thanked Saudi
Arabia for the shift – prices plunged to the lowest this year before recovering
slightly on Wednesday.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/donaldtrump-thanksgiving-oil/2018/11/21/id/891617/
November 27: Trump dismisses the economic
impact of climate change — except at his golf course
“I don’t believe it,” Trump says, but his business dealings indicate otherwise.
But Trump has taken a very different attitude when it comes to the business he
owns.
As
Politico detailed during the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump International
Golf Links sought to build a seawall to protect a golf course he owns in Ireland
from “global warming and its effects.”
In a permit application for the wall, Trump International Golf Links cited
scientific studies indicating that a rise in sea level could result in damaging
erosion in a bay near the golf course.
https://www.vox.com/2018/11/27/18114338/trump-climate-change-assessment-golf-course-ireland
November 27: Fact check: 7 things Trump got
wrong about the border and immigration
After defending the use of tear gas against migrants, Trump inflated statistics
about crimes committed by undocumented immigrants, among other things.
Here are his claims, made during a pair of campaign rallies and a law
enforcement round table in Mississippi to
bolster Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in her runoff election, and the
facts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fact-check-7-things-trump-got-wrong-about-border-immigration-n940516
November 28: Fake news: What exactly is it –
and how can you spot it?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/0/fake-news-exactly-has-really-had-influence/
November 29:
https://www.factcheck.org/fake-news/
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