Episode 471 – The 8th Annual Fake News Awards
Aaaaaaand now, from the subterranean depths of a conspiracy realist’s worst fever dream come to life, it’s the 8th Annual Fake News Awards? What crimes against humanity did the mockingbird repeaters of the dinosaur media manage to whitewash last year? And what disgusting dissembler of deceptive disinformation will walk away with the biggest dishonour of them all, the Fakest Story of the Year? Find out in this year’s Fake News Awards!
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THE FAKEST AI-GENERATED GARBAGE OF THE YEAR:
Xinyu Guo, Liang Dong and Dingjun Hao for “Cellular functions of spermatogonial stem cells in relation to JAK/STAT signaling pathway,” a paper that was published in the Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology journal in February . . . and then promptly retracted because it was, in fact, completely fake, AI-generated garbage.
THE FAKEST ECONOMIC STORY OF THE YEAR:
India Today and The Street and The Federalist and Nasdaq and literally dozens of MSM-tail-chasing, supposedly “independent” media blogs and channels for “The death of the petrodollar,” a viral story that claimed the petrodollar agreement between Saudi Arabia and the US expired on June 9, 2024.
THE FAKEST GLOBAL WARMING STORY OF THE YEAR:
The UK Met Office for literally making up 103 fake temperature stations!
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN GASLIGHTING:
Morning Joe and his wife Zbigniew (along with CBS, CNN, MSNBC and every other three- and four-letter alphabet souper in the den of fake news vipers) for “This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever!”
THE FAKE NEWS STORY OF THE YEAR:
CNN’s Jomana Karadsheh for “CNN Exclusive: Syrian rebel leader says goal is to overthrow Assad regime,” which, in addition to sporting the most obvious, inane title of all time, features a pandering, softball interview attempting to excuse, justify, overlook or ignore the reprehensible war crimes of the so-called “moderate Syrian rebels” and their de facto leader, the globally designated terrorist known as “Abu Mohammad al-Jolani” (aka Ahmed al-Sharaa).
