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Interesting...

On a warm, sunny afternoon I set out with a producer for a suburb of Los Angeles. Coler lived in a middle-class neighborhood of pastel-colored one-story beach bungalows. His home had an unwatered lawn ? probably the result of California's ongoing drought. There was a black minivan in the driveway and a large prominent American flag.

We rang the front doorbell and a man answered, his face obscured by a heavy mesh steel screen. I asked for Jestin Coler. The man indicated that's who he was. But when I asked about Disinfomedia, he said, "I don't know what to tell you guys. Have a good day."

We left Coler our contact information thinking he wasn't likely to talk. But a couple of hours later he had a change of heart. He sent us an email and we set up an interview.

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 or 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. He wrote one fake story for NationalReport.net about how customers in Colorado marijuana shops were using food stamps to buy pot.

"What that turned into was a state representative in the House in Colorado proposing actual legislation to prevent people from using their food stamps to buy marijuana based on something that had just never happened," Coler says.

During the run-up to the presidential election, fake news really took off. "It was just anybody with a blog can get on there and find a big, huge Facebook group of kind of rabid Trump supporters just waiting to eat up this red meat that they're about to get served," Coler says. "It caused an explosion in the number of sites. I mean, my gosh, the number of just fake accounts on Facebook exploded during the Trump election."

Coler says his writers have tried to write fake news for liberals ? but they just never take the bait.
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NPR: We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned
 
Maybe they will do a story about people fleeing capitalism for a socialist country.
That would be fake with a capital F.  ;)
 
I remember that fake news story where Condi Rice said she would produce proof that Osama Bin Laden was behind 9-11.

Still waiting, Condi.
 
Coler says his writers have tried to write fake news for liberals ? but they just never take the bait.
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From my experience, it's usually the small tweets and edited screenshots they usually fall for. Nothing that takes too much time, and will readily be accepted as soon as they see it.
 
Tatterdemalion said:
Coler says his writers have tried to write fake news for liberals ? but they just never take the bait.
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From my experience, it's usually the small tweets and edited screenshots they usually fall for. Nothing that takes too much time, and will readily be accepted as soon as they see it.
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Facebook is full of that junk.
 
Coler says his writers have tried to write fake news for liberals ? but they just never take the bait.
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"Hands up, don't shoot."

The leftards don't need to take the bait. They're the ones with TV studios to propagate their homegrown fake news.
 
Fake news: "97% of scientists agree in global warming."

Real news "100% of government scientists believe in global warming."




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Cubans are better off under Castro(s) than Americans under anyone.  8)
 
Fake news or liberals lying?
Yes!
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/12/08/jake-tapper-calls-lib-mag-egregious-kellyanne-conway-headline-turns-hes-right-421585
 
cpizzle said:
Michael Brown was the biggest Fake News Story that millions of people still believe.
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And Walter Scott, according to our justice system, wasn't murdered either:

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Try the Fake Liberal Socialist Washington Post:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/09/washington-post-on-the-fake-news-hot-seat.html
 
And the 'above reproach' socialist democrat Clinton campaign:

http://nypost.com/2016/12/09/mika-brzezinski-says-clinton-camp-tried-to-pull-her-off-the-air/
 
Mika and Joe committed suicide today. RIP


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Smellin Coffee said:
cpizzle said:
Michael Brown was the biggest Fake News Story that millions of people still believe.
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And Walter Scott, according to our justice system, wasn't murdered either:

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Quoting Shaun King..... You are a hilarious snowflake.

 
Smellin Coffee said:
And Walter Scott, according to our justice system, wasn't murdered either
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One bad shooting doesn't throw the justifiable ones into doubt.
 
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