The Real Scoop on Fake News

An NPR Station, KQED, decided they wanted to get to the bottom of Fake News after the election.  The leftist media is all about Fake News these days, and inventing new terms like ‘Post-Truth’ as if we weren’t far past truth in the media in the days of Obama.

I don’t know if they found exactly what they wanted

Jestin Coler is the man behind a lot of Fake News you may have seen on your facebook or online.  From the article:

 

Coler is a soft-spoken 40-year-old with a wife and two kids. He says he got into fake news around 2013 to highlight the extremism of the white nationalist alt-right.

“The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right, publish blatantly fictional stories and then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction,” Coler says.

He was amazed at how quickly fake news could spread and how easily people believe it.

Coler’s company, Disinfomedia, owns many faux news sites — he won’t say how many. But he says his is one of the biggest fake news businesses out there, which makes him kind of like a godfather of the industry.

Coler, a registered Democrat, says he has no regrets about his fake news empire. He doesn’t think fake news swayed the election.

Joel Pollack also did a good write-up on this at Breitbart.  Take a look!

Fascinating that the right is to blame for Fake News, isn’t it?

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