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STUDY: Right Wingers Way More Likely to Believe & Share Fake News (Original Post) rsacamano Feb 2018 OP
Snopes zipplewrath Feb 2018 #1
In other news, water is wet. raging moderate Feb 2018 #2
I hope they didn't spend much money on this no-brainer study. Lil Missy Feb 2018 #3
and believe me they are the FIRST to cry FAKE news! samnsara Feb 2018 #4
There are quite a few reports in RW media that Senator Schiff's sister married a Soros. Ligyron Feb 2018 #5

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
1. Snopes
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 10:36 AM
Feb 2018

Go to snopes and look at the political section. The vast majority of the legends are stuff the right wing makes up about various democrats.

It's about the only way they can find support for their points of view, they have to make crap up.

Ligyron

(7,639 posts)
5. There are quite a few reports in RW media that Senator Schiff's sister married a Soros.
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 11:57 AM
Feb 2018

Article after article and associated blogs used this as a starting point to paint a vast conspiracy involving most of the Democratic Party and Satan.

Snopes and Factcheck pointed out that Senator Schiff doesn't even have a sister and that the woman's parents in the articles had different first names that his parents.

When I pointed this out to them they said Snopes is a leftist company whose results can't be trusted because the owners were in a financial dispute and were sex perverts besides, citing a Daily Mail article from July. They slammed Factcheck as a leftist plot as well.

I haven't responded and don't know if I should even bother. Some are just unreachable.

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