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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Some things BuzzFeed claims is proof of lefty fake news: fascination by the
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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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The Guardian too. Coordinated hit? What's up with that? The lefties I know are erring on side of caution. Sometimes annoying so.
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That at least has some real evidence. BuzzFeed's does not.
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Yes, but I kind of disagree that there is a "surge." There have always been people on the left who believe crazy things.
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Yes. I'd even say more PEOPLE are panicking about Trump and about Russia, up to and including the traditional media.
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But that's not a fake news problem. It's a discourse and bad journalism problem as much as anything else.
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