Global: fake news

Written by Super User 02 Dec 2016
Global: fake news

Marco Chacon read, ‘bucket of losers trending online’, and freaked out. It came from a story he had posted on his website about a ‘secret transcript’ of Hillary Clinton’s speech given to Goldman Sachs, which claimed Clinton called Bernie Sanders’ supporters a ‘bucket of losers.’ Once posted, the story went viral and was picked up on Fox News - the scoop of a lifetime - but Chacon had made the whole thing up. Chacon said, ‘This is ridiculous, things had gone way too far.’ Fox News issued an apology for reporting it. Chacon’s story is an example of fake news making real news headlines. Lies and fabrications of mainstream media are not ‘sloppy journalism’: they are intended to mislead. As intercessors we usually have the Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other hand (or watch the news on TV). We need to be aware of the risk of clever fake news.

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