{"id":1263,"date":"2016-06-10T18:31:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2016-06-10T18:31:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:31:21","slug":"unknown-conservative-group-creates-fake-poster-to-spread-untrue-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/06\/10\/unknown-conservative-group-creates-fake-poster-to-spread-untrue-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown conservative group creates fake poster to spread untrue meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ConservativeNationPhoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1264 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ConservativeNationPhoto-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"ConservativeNationPhoto\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>TL;DR Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Photo allegedly shows injuries to a female Trump supporter after violent protests against Trump at a Trump campaign rally.<\/li>\n<li>The photo is actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/06\/horror-movie-legend-proves-viral-beaten-trump-supporter-photo-is-a-fraud\/\">a test photo of an actress, after injury makeup was applied, as part of a movie production<\/a>. The photo has nothing to do with a Trump rally.<\/li>\n<li>The photo was distributed by a small Facebook page\u00a0called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Conservative-Nation-1171312856216026\/\">Conservative Nation<\/a>&#8221; (the post has apparently been\u00a0removed) and was then shared thousands of time online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nPhotos are &#8220;re-purposed&#8221; all the time on social media. A photo of X is purported to be a photo of Y. We just posted <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/06\/09\/social-media-viral-nonsense-and-the-story-that-never-ends\/\">another example of this a few days ago<\/a>, where a 2003 photo of a USAF Thunderbird pilot ejection is passed along on social media as a photo of a recent USAF Thunderbird crash in June of 2016.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis technique combines a photo of Y, then asserts it is of X. This method is common in social media propaganda posters. Basically, it is a combination of assertion, lie and logical fallacy. As it relies on (usually) stealing a photo, the method is easy to implement. Pick a photo and assert it is actually something else, Creating propaganda on social media is incredibly easy!<br \/>\nConservation Nation has just over 20,000 page likes on Facebook, making it a very tiny group &#8211; compare that to Occupy Democrats with nearly 3 million page likes\/followers.<br \/>\nMuch social media appropriately targeted the original, false poster, created by Conservative Nation, albeit, by making further assertions and spreading more propaganda of their own:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FakeTrumpVictim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1265 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FakeTrumpVictim.jpg\" alt=\"FakeTrumpVictim\" width=\"442\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBecause this propaganda item involved a statement from actor Bruce Coleman, some of the mainstream media reported on\u00a0this specific example of fake social media propaganda. Unfortunately, they have ignored 99.999% of the social media propaganda that infiltrates our online perspectives every day. As far as propaganda items go, this is a run-of-the-mill, every day occurrence &#8211; there is nothing particularly special about this item. This goes on <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/02\/28\/the-most-spectacular-example-of-social-media-propaganda-so-far\/\">every day<\/a>, many times <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/03\/29\/denmark-has-free-child-care-uh-no\/\">every day<\/a>, including by <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/05\/28\/lots-more-people-go-to-college-than-to-jail-whatever\/\">well known politicians<\/a> other than Trump, and is routinely ignored.<br \/>\n<strong>Text for Search Indexing<\/strong><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s what happened to female Trump supporter when she met &#8220;peaceful&#8221; and &#8220;tolerant&#8221; liberals. &#8211; Conservation Nation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR Summary Photo allegedly shows injuries to a female Trump supporter after violent protests against Trump at a Trump campaign rally. The photo is actually a test photo of an actress, after injury makeup was applied, as part of a movie production. The photo has nothing to do with a Trump rally. The photo was distributed by a small Facebook page\u00a0called &#8220;Conservative Nation&#8221; (the post has apparently been\u00a0removed) and was then shared thousands of time online. &nbsp; Photos are &#8220;re-purposed&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/06\/10\/unknown-conservative-group-creates-fake-poster-to-spread-untrue-meme\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26,28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assertion","category-lies","category-logical-fallacy","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}