A flurry of recent diaries here, and stories like this and this in the traditional and in the new press have pointed out the fake news stories that tainted the election, and keep coming even now. Many of these originate from money-making sites in Macedonia, for example; others from RWNJ sites here. Researching their origin leads always to unsourced bloviation gladly taken up by a gullible public. Google and Facebook claim to be initiating filters--- to keep these stories off search results (or stop these sites’ ads from appearing, cutting off their revenue) in Google’s case; or to prevent posting these stories or their links on Facebook pages.
We will see. But Facebook seems already to have backed down under coordinated attack by the right wing who claim the policy unfairly targets right wing members and the sites they link. But I agree, there does seem to be a severe imbalance here, I admit it, caused by the paucity of such news stories coming from the left.
I say it is time to remedy this news inequality! Even just as an excuse to get your snark on, and certainly not to disseminate outside our community. (But it would serve the bastards right.) Just a bit of catharsis, to get us past our tears. Onion has failed: mainstream news headlines rival anything that satiric site can post.
To start off, a bit of comment thread of a diary here, starting with Jayden.
My contributions:
‘Mike Pence mulling withdrawal pending removal of Bannon in favor of Indianapolis Archbishop Joseph Tobin. Pence has recently renounced his evangelism in favor of his childhood Catholic roots.’
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In other New York regional news, respected sources say that Mr. Bannon has ‘vowed to expel the Jews from Spanish Harlem.’
I invite you all to vent your spleen, to free yourselves from the slough of despond.