BuzzFeed Now Looking to Institutional Dems to Police a Phantom Surge of Lefty Fake News https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/02/06/buzzfeed-now-looking-to-institutional-dems-to-combat-a-phantom-surge-of-lefty-fake-news/ …
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Other things BF claims is proof of left fake news: righty fake news, analysis of what Trump is doing, ~accurate reporting on NSC changes.
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After having "proven" this lefty fake news problem, BF then worries that lefties will not focus on "legitimate causes of outrage."
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BF also suggests (I think) that reason Dems are protesting electeds to show a spine is fake news.
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The BEST is BF cites institutional Dems who've focused on same things BF cites as fake news (like Trump dossier). Oh.
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you mean the dossier they published in full?
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That's the one. The one they're getting sued over.
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I wrote something about
@RoguePOTUSStaff with a partial response to your piece - think they're a fraudhttps://twitter.com/joshleitzel/status/828783603840540674 … -
Thanks. I'm not actually concerned whether
@RoguePOTUSStaff is real or not. It's not substantively different than other fakes. -
I think people follow for same reason people followed Mayor Emanuel account. Or fake Merkel or fake Theresa May.
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I think before all these alt-federal agency accounts I would have agreed, but this seems different
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This one especially is super tempting to want to buy into
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Yes. Humans like to buy into narratives. That's what makes us human.
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Assuming your arg is true, is the running commentary on the WH not a way to follow it?
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Do you think it's less accurate that journos being forced to work with pathological liars as spox?
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