A new survey from the Pew Research Center has found that two-thirds of U.S. adults say fake news stories are causing confusion about the basic facts of current events.
Fake political stories have drawn outsized attention recently because of the possibility that they influenced public perceptions and could have swayed the U.S. presidential election. Separately on Thursday, Facebook announced that it’s taking new measures to curb the spread of fake news on its social network.
Nearly a third of respondents in the Pew survey said they “often” see made-up political news stories online. Less than a half said they were “very confident” that they could spot fabricated news. Another 45 percent was “somewhat” confident.
The Pew survey was conducted Dec. 1-4 among 1,002 U.S. adults
(AP)
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There are 2 separate groups, fake news and un-fake news.
The fake news are what is known as the traditional sources who were pushing opinion in favor of the democrats (but the democrats cheated in the debates by getting the questions leaked to them before the debate -so were prepared with answers that looked slick, and did other things like the paid demonstrators etc etc)
and the un-fake news who really show the truth about the election and the way it was managed” by the democrats. But the fake news are still calling the un-fake news fake! What a disgusting coup!
The un-fake news is on youtube, and facebook is trying to delete the un-fake news which they are calling fake.
Also, youtube is threatening to censor un-fake news and called it fake when in fact it is true. Don’t believe all you hear.
Un-fake news has a huge following on youtube, millions, bigger than the fake news on the traditional news sources.
I firmly believe , with religious ferver, that this article is a fake news story. so there.
Survey from APFN.
Fakestream Media is indeed causing confusion. They brought it on themselves. They cooked up baloney polls with phony reports to feed the public before election and now they have a hard time eating it, cope with the aftershocks and dealing with the public who have woken up to the truth.
Yesterday’s breaking news is another example of MSMFN and how they distort the truth. Did you see how AP Fake News which was reported here on YWN covered up with tons of layers the fact about Obama’s fake birth certificate and completely ignored Obama’s confession that it’s not a conspiracy but true that it’s fake and forged? In other words, he was illegally President of the US for 8 years and fooled all Americans and the rest of the world. This is Mainstream Fake News Media typical way of reporting. That is why the MAJORITY HAVE SWITCHED OVER TO REAL NEWS and the reason Fake News are trying to get the government to shut up Real News. MSMFN have included Facebook in their witch-hunt. That’s all because Fakestream Media is losing control and losing millions of readers and listeners and advertisements.
Regarding yesterday’s oBaMSHELL. It doesn’t depend what you do, but WHO did it? If Trump would have had a fake Birth Certificate or other forged documents, it would be a worldwide scandal with protests and what not. Here, Obama Liar-in-Chief sat on his thrown for 8 years illegally while the CIA and judges and other corrupt politicians turned a blind eye just like they and the Fakestream Media are turning a blind eye on all of Hillary’s corruptions and criminal activities. Look how quiet Mainstream Media Fake News is about Obama’s fake Birth Certificate which should have caused a tsunami and is much worse than the hoax of Russia interfering in the US Presidential Elections even if it were true.
MSMFN is only concerned about Putin’s unwarranted meddling into US politics. And what’s with our President with his fraudulently running for President maliciously?
It’s about time the people realized that the difference between CNN and the National Enquirer is only in the name.