{"id":1433,"date":"2016-09-01T21:31:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T21:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2024-11-07T01:04:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T01:04:32","slug":"the-role-of-fake-news-sites-in-social-media-stupidity-amplification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/09\/01\/the-role-of-fake-news-sites-in-social-media-stupidity-amplification\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of fake news sites in social media stupidity amplification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Many of the fake stories conservatives are tricked into sharing have been deliberately planted by the left to make fools of us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/stream.org\/left-busy-planting-fake-conservative-news-sites\/\">The Left is Busily Planting Fake Red-Meat Conservative News Sites | The Stream<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Similarly, many of the fake stories published by Occupy Democrats are used to trick liberals into sharing and making fools of themselves (see <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?s=occupy+democrats\">prior posts on this topic<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> We&#8217;ve<a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/03\/28\/fake-news-is-a-profitable-industry\/\"> written about this before<\/a>\u00a0and this also illustrates how the MSM does the same thing, as click bait, noted in <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/09\/01\/social-media-is-a-stupidity-amplifier\/\">the prior post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the fake stories conservatives are tricked into sharing have been deliberately planted by the left to make fools of us. Source: The Left is Busily Planting Fake Red-Meat Conservative News Sites | The Stream Similarly, many of the fake stories published by Occupy Democrats are used to trick liberals into sharing and making fools of themselves (see prior posts on this topic). We&#8217;ve written about this before\u00a0and this also illustrates how the MSM does the same thing, as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/09\/01\/the-role-of-fake-news-sites-in-social-media-stupidity-amplification\/\"> 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":[1],"tags":[145,237,239],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fake-news","tag-occupy-democrats","tag-occupydemocrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","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=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}