Spot-on. When NPR got caught posting fake news recently, absolutely nothing happened to them. When CNN does it, nothing happens to them.
The game is rigged.
The game is rigged.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/npr-busted-framing-self-...
The whole "russian bounty" was completely false too. The Steele dossier was also completely fabricated and yet pushed.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/npr-busted-framing-self-...
The whole "russian bounty" was completely false too.
Also, hedging that you;ll get attacked isn't a good foot to start off with either. If the evidence is sound, let it stand on it's own.
The right wing media has been manufacturing bullshit for 4 years, and allowing the President to gaslight the public that it's the left wing that is fake news, and somehow in the last 6 months hackernews started to eat the bullshit?
Witchhunt stories about Child Pornography Pizza Parlors is fake news. Stories that are inconvenient to the Republican leadership is not fake news.
I can't tell what is going on with this Hunter Biden story because the NY Post abandoned all journalistic credibility since it's been owned by Rupert Murdoch, so maybe there's something there.
But other than this story, the right wing media has been allowed to spread and perpetuate aggressively dangerous misinformation for YEARS on these platforms without repercussions.
Before you downvote me, read https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-reportedly-gave-hunter... and tell me if this story of conservatives finally getting SOME resistance to the spread of lies and bullshit should incite any sympathy from any logically-minded person on HN.