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Right-Wing Sites Snookered by Fake Stories About SPLC Hate Group Designations
By David Neiwert on June 12, 2015 - 10:06 am, Posted in Media Extremism
The headlines widely circulated on social media and a variety of right-wing websites certainly are attention-grabbing: Fox News Designated Hate Group by Southern Poverty Law Center and Juggalos Classified As Hate Group By Southern Poverty Law Center. And many of the posts promoting the pieces on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere clearly seem to take them at face value.
Theres a big problem, though: The stories are complete fakes.
The Fox News piece was published earlier this week at a satirical news site called the Free Wood Post, where the motto is: News Thats Almost Reliable. The post contained no links to any such SPLC report because, of course, none existed.
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2015/06/12/right-wing-sites-snookered-by-fake-stories-about-splc-hate-group-designations/
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)NEVER WONDER HOW LOW REPUKES CAN GO OR HOW STUPID THEY CAN BE - THEY WILL *ALWAYS* FIND A WAY TO GO LOWER / BE EVEN MORE STUPID
WITH THAT OBSERVATION!
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)SHOULD I BE YELLING?
I'M SCARED. TOO MUCH YELLING!
Skittles
(153,193 posts)YOU WANT I SHOULD KICK YOUR SCARED ASS, GLASSUNION? I WOULD DO THAT FOR YOU MY SWEET.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)Glassunion
(10,201 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)how are they to know what's fake? I could almost feel sorry for them but, naaaaah.
Which makes me wonder what came first - were they idiots before they watched Fox News or is idiocy a condition caused by watching Fox News?
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)They will find new depths of stupidity.