So LTG, you would say that there is no problem currently with fake news being presented as actual news?

So LTG, you would say that there is no problem currently with fake news being presented as actual news?

I think the President or Breitbart is about to be running the county, so nobody on the Right should be bitching about fake news.

Not really. I think it is a problem with people that choose to believe it. It's just like gossip. When someone presents you with gossip you have a choice as to whether you want to believe it or not.

I think the movement to delegitimize the news is far more problematic and dangerous. I also see the movement to politicize everything as problematic. Things that are factual are now conveniently dismissed merely because people oppose the reporters political views. That is dangerous.

So there's no problem currently with fake news.

So you are ok with the architect of fake news essentially running the White House?

He's the what now?

The President of Breitbart, but you knew that.

The issue here really is that certain places like Facebook are trying to position themselves as a trusted news source even though the content does not come from them directly. There is a logical expectation that they have done some vetting of the source to at least have some sort of plausible reason to believe it contains legitimate news. If a newspaper reprinted an article they got from these sites we would be questioning the very existence of that paper. Facebook is not that much different and they have a duty to at least put some effort in vetting the sites they allow.

The assumption that they left for anything other than a vacation was inaccurate. That's far different than direct quotes being inaccurate. I'm sure you understand that but it doesn't fit the narrative that you're trumpeting.

After seeing reader comments like “It would be nice if we had the addresses of those concerned citizens and, I bet, this info is known to people living in the area” on the Breitbart story, the parents pulled their child out of school.

“There’s no way we’re going to take a chance after the pizza incident,” they said, referencing the man who fired an assault rifle in a Washington D.C area pizzeria after reading a fake-news story that said Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring out of there.

An earlier version of this story stated the family had fled the county over fears for their child’s safety. But the Anti-Defamation League, in a statement posted Thursday, said it had spoken to the family and the family said it was traveling on vacation.

The issue here really is that certain places like Facebook are trying to position themselves as a trusted news source even though the content does not come from them directly. There is a logical expectation that they have done some vetting of the source to at least have some sort of plausible reason to believe it contains legitimate news. If a newspaper reprinted an article they got from these sites we would be questioning the very existence of that paper. Facebook is not that much different and they have a duty to at least put some effort in vetting the sites they allow.

This is where I side with JORR and probably Juice. I don't think Facebook should decide what's real or not. I don't think that type of censorship is productive.

They are positioning themselves as a news source though. That makes it different.