Fake Think Tanks Fuel Fake News–And the President's Tweets

> The article is more of an attempt to slander every alternative viewpoint as "racist" by associating it with a fringe element.

Pointing out that these groups are founded by and often run by overt racists isn't 'slander'. And Wired extensively links to other breakdowns about all of the racist nonsense these people are peddling.

> But calling every alternative viewpoint you don't like "racist" is the same failed strategy that led to Trump. Don't you think it's time to try something new? How about actually refuting the specific points you are opposed to instead of simply parroting the obviously partisan viewpoints of establishment "think tank" hacks?

The saying that it takes an order of magnitude more effort to debunk a lie than it does to produce it applies here. The internet is full of thorough debunkings of all of these groups, but they keep churning away.

The false equivalence of grouping NPI with an organization like Brookings is sad and predictable but I guess that's the age in which we live now.

Wired never had any credibility. It was, at best, the Vogue of the tech scene, and when it was acquired by the same company that owns Vogue nobody should have been surprised.

What it did have was tone, and around 1999 or so it completely lost touch with its roots.

> How about actually refuting the specific points you are opposed to...

The current White House administration doesn't give a fuck about points or facts or any of that. You can refute all day long and it won't matter, plus they can make "alternative facts" up faster than you can refute them. It's an unwinnable war on those terms.

Nice fake news there Confucius ;)

I agree, wired is atrocious these days. The whole article is an attempt at manipulation using rather cheap tricks.