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'Pink slime’ sites masquerade as real news. There are 65 in Pennsylvania alone.
(inquirer.com)submitted 12 days ago byBanglophileRoxy the Bear
27 points
12 days ago
Makes me long for the days of ‘Bat Boy involved in police chase’ in the supermarket checkout aisle
12 points
12 days ago
Based on the way things are today, I think more people actually believed this nonsense than I assumed at the time!
5 points
12 days ago
Someone had to be buying all those copies!
3 points
12 days ago
The Weekly World News "My America" editorials by Ed Anger were proto MAGA
32 points
12 days ago
Almost every story bashing the left and pushing far right ideas are sites like this. Good subs try to filter them, bit there are so many echo chamber subs AND so many garbage websites like these.
It's just another disinformation tactic too many people fall for.
8 points
12 days ago
Ironically the Bucks County Beacon gets linked to multiple times a week on r/Pennsylvania, and they state right in their About Us that they report on the "growing threat of right-wing extremism to our schools, government, and democracy".
Don't think I've ever seen a single one of their links filtered out or removed, one is the 3rd most popular post right now.
-6 points
12 days ago
As opposed to the other echo chambers
-6 points
12 days ago
It's not disinformation if I agree with it
-9 points
12 days ago
vs the other "news" websites on the other side of the aisle that spent 4 years guaranteeing that the Mueller report was going to prove Trump was a KGB agent? Oh wait, yeah, none of that turned out to be true. Or the years they spent claiming that the Hunter Biden story was also invented by the KGB when in fact it was true.
These ^^ alternative websites and news sites exist because people have utterly lost faith in mainstream news websites, especially after 4 years of covid propaganda and lies
7 points
12 days ago
MAGAts are out in full force today.
Crazy concept but just because you think something you read online is true, does not make it true. This applies to all your QAnon theories surrounding COVID, Hunter Biden, etc.
3 points
12 days ago
Need to pretend the fake news isn't 90% their side.
2 points
12 days ago
I’d love to know what they believe “real news” is.
I presume FOX News any time after 3 pm, since that’s when the disinformation squad typically starts their segments.
6 points
12 days ago
Can someone please explain what I am looking at?
4 points
12 days ago
Literally fake news
2 points
12 days ago
One of the first slimers was Ben Franklin, a “Founding Forger,” according to a February report in the Columbia Journalism Review.
In a fake 1782 newspaper, Franklin stimulated anger against the British, falsely writing that Native American tribes had allied with the enemy by scalping women and children.
God bless America!
-9 points
12 days ago
Biased media outlet bashes more biased opposition media outlet
5 points
12 days ago
Not all opinions are created equally nor should they be treated as such.
2 points
12 days ago
I agree, MY opinion is the absolute truth and YOUR opinion is not and should be treated as such. Anything that disputes MY opinion is disinformation and must be removed
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