Big K&R for this thread.

they don't care.

Facts are meaningless to them.

from (for a time) an anonymous "place." And he would do it again. Resonates with the criminal who loves the spectacle of screwing with others as musch as the crime.

"Crawling/scraping websites." I see a movie in this.

Coler doesn't think fake news is going away. One of his sites — NationalReport.net — was flagged as fake news under a new Google policy, and Google stopped running ads on it. But Coler had other options.

"There are literally hundreds of ad networks," he says. "Early last week, my inbox was just filled every day with people because they knew that Google was cracking down — hundreds of people wanting to work with my sites."

Coler says he has been talking it over with his wife and may be getting out of the fake-news racket. But, he says, dozens, maybe hundreds of entrepreneurs will be ready to take his place. And he thinks it will only get harder to tell their websites from real news sites. They know now that fake news sells and they will only be in it for the money.

"We tried to do similar things to the liberals; it just never works, never takes off. You'll get debunked within the first wo comments and then the whole thing just fizzles out".

That, to me, says clearly which side has integrity and intelligence, and which side really doesn't. As one who has fact-checked many things over the years, including many here, it also rings very true. If I read something that sounds like unlikely human behavior, or "too good to be true" in a "good for our side" way, I'll always fact-check. And if it isn't true I'll always say so, and provide background and references. To me its a basic matter of how I think, and most of that was formed in college. That's where you assume every statement you make will be questioned, so you have background and references ready at hand, and you're expected to question what you hear as well. Its good for the mind.