By Kurt Nimmo
Facebook is responsible for Donald Trump’s victory last week, according to the Associated Press:
Facebook has been accused of possibly swaying the election by promoting fake news stories on its social network, an increasingly important source of information for many Americans.
The AP didn’t mention specific news stories to back up its claim.
Trump has said social media played an important role in his campaign.
Trump, who estimates that 28 million people follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, touted social media during a 60 Minutes interview with Leslie Stahl on Sunday night, saying social media was a key factor in defeating Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump often used Facebook and Twitter to combat falsehoods and attack his enemies.
“When you give me a bad story or when you give me an inaccurate story or when somebody other than you and another —a network, or whatever, because of course, CBS would never do a thing like that right? I have a method of fighting back,” he said during the interview.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg denies his network pushed out “fake” stories that helped get Trump elected.
“Of all the content on Facebook, more than 99% of what people see is authentic. Only a very small amount is fake news and hoaxes. The hoaxes that do exist are not limited to one partisan view, or even to politics. Overall, this makes it extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election in one direction or the other,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post.
The “hoaxes” consist primarily of stories about Trump’s scandal-ridden opponent.
Mike Caulfield cites a fake story posted at the Denver Guardian as an example. The story in question, “FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide,” was shared on Facebook 568,000 times.
“This false story is one of thousands of fake news stories being circulated around Facebook by fly-by-night ‘hyperpartisan’ sites this election cycle, according an investigation by Buzzfeed News,” writes The Denver Post. The Post attributed the fake news sites to teenagers in Macedonia trying to profit off the popularity of Trump.
“To put this in perspective, if you combined the top stories from the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and LA Times, they still had only 5% the viewership of an article from a fake news site that intimated strongly that the Democratic Presidential candidate had had a husband and wife murdered then burned to cover up her crimes,” writes Caulfield.
In the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Bush neocons routinely used the establishment press to spread lies about weapons of mass destruction and Iraqi involvement with al-Qaeda. Judith Miller of The New York Times specialized in writing stories propagating neocon propaganda.
Something else is overlooked here. Every week, fewer and fewer people get their news from establishment media websites. The establishment media is less popular than Congress.
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Kurt Nimmo is the editor of Another Day in the Empire, where this article first appeared. He is the former lead editor and writer of Infowars.com. Donate to ADE Here.
Hillary blamed the new F.B.I investigation for her loss. The
establishment media blames new / social media for her loss. Next week
they’ll be blaming the sun for the loss.
Why not own up to the fact/s. People no longer desire the status quo.
People are learning to vote both with ballots and with money.
If you run a business and make a bad product / service people don’t buy.
This teaches you to change your product / service to get people buying.
If you don’t then you go out of business, that simple.
I did not vote. My wife did vote though. I did not influence her vote,
she voted no confidence as write in for President and VP.
“Establishment Media Blames….?” The establishment doesn’t like it when people think or act outside the box that has been carefully (but not successfully) placed around their brains, so when and if they do “think” they are blamed, shamed and scolded. Social media has taken on a life of it’s own no matter how much the establishment tried to control it. They cannot keep people from talking to each other because they’ve made sure every single person on the planet has a smart phone attached to their ears and eyes… and now they want to call it all back for a do-over?
I’m sure the 3 billion $ of free advertising provided by the msm had NOTHING to do with it. See the flying pigs?
My Facebook feed was filled with nothing but hatred for Trump. The Dem’s really need to get their stories straight !
Weird, your FB feed is a lot different than mine. I had hatred for both of them in mine.
MSM is truly in a parallel universe – MSM was in Hillary’s pocket.
A point in every direction away from the ‘obvious’….is the same as No point at all.
That Banshee cry of hers showed her evil side.
Hey, you’re a fake news site!
How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of service. – Charles Darwin
I have one word for the Hildebeest.
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Happy tears are rolling down my face.