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No, fake news started long ago. You are very confused if you think these mainstream media companies are lieing to avoid talking about why hillary lost. They giv

No, fake news started long ago. You are very confused if you think these mainstream media companies are lieing to avoid talking about why hillary lost. They give lots of reasons that appear to be valid, like that she didn't pay enough attention to those important three states, and that she had no widely publicized plan to deal with the people that lots their local factories and jobs. I think this latter case was really important, and HRC really missed out on this area. A lot of trump supporters seem to believe that billionaire and job exporter trump will somehow get their factory jobs back to their town. This idea has been widely discussed. Sure, some people also wrote about how trump won because of fake news (i.e. blog posts about things that aren't true, like the comet pizza thing), and that must have contributed, but that is just one of many things.

crdoconnor 10y ago
>No, fake news started long ago. Like I said two comments down. >You are very confused I don't think so.
- unprepare 10y ago
  >"Fake news" (along with Russia-panic) started ... to justify why Hillary lost that didn't involve blaming her. >fake news started long ago you can only pick one.
  - crdoconnor 10y ago
    That is why I used "quotation marks" to indicate that I was referring to the moral panic about fake news that was suddenly plastered over the Dem-linked media (NYTimes, Washpost, CNN, CNBC, etc.) starting November 10th which led to the search spike which can be very clearly seen here: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=fake%20news https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=fake%20news Edit: oh look you downvoted the comment below after I pointed it out. how cute.
    - unprepare 10y ago
      i cant even downvote you because you responded to me? but you can blame me if you want. anyways, even the fake news phenomena that is being discussed today has been around for quite a while, so you are still incorrect in your assertion that its a recent phenomena started by the DNC and hillarys campaign snopes even did a write up about fake news sites in january of 2016[1] [1]http://www.snopes.com/2016/01/14/fake-news-sites/ http://www.snopes.com/2016/01/14/fake-news-sites/
alasdair_ 10y ago
"fake news" as a phrase only started showing up regularly after Hillary started doing badly. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Fake%20news https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Fake%20news

crdoconnor 10y ago

>No, fake news started long ago. Like I said two comments down. >You are very confused I don't think so.

unprepare 10y ago
>"Fake news" (along with Russia-panic) started ... to justify why Hillary lost that didn't involve blaming her. >fake news started long ago you can only pick one.
- crdoconnor 10y ago
  That is why I used "quotation marks" to indicate that I was referring to the moral panic about fake news that was suddenly plastered over the Dem-linked media (NYTimes, Washpost, CNN, CNBC, etc.) starting November 10th which led to the search spike which can be very clearly seen here: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=fake%20news https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=fake%20news Edit: oh look you downvoted the comment below after I pointed it out. how cute.
  - unprepare 10y ago
    i cant even downvote you because you responded to me? but you can blame me if you want. anyways, even the fake news phenomena that is being discussed today has been around for quite a while, so you are still incorrect in your assertion that its a recent phenomena started by the DNC and hillarys campaign snopes even did a write up about fake news sites in january of 2016[1] [1]http://www.snopes.com/2016/01/14/fake-news-sites/ http://www.snopes.com/2016/01/14/fake-news-sites/

alasdair_ 10y ago

"fake news" as a phrase only started showing up regularly after Hillary started doing badly. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Fake%20news https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Fake%20news