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The far-right 'news' website Breitbart has completely made up a story about a mob setting fire to Germany's oldest church while chanting "Allahu Akbar"

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/07/german-police-quash-breitbart-story-of-mob-setting-fire-to-dortmund-church

 

It's important to know this if either you come across a Breitbart article that you might otherwise assume was true, or if other people cite Breitbart as a source of information that has influenced their opinion. They make things up to whip up hatred against Muslims and migrants, and there is a clear parallel between this and anti-Jewish propaganda in the 1930s. Beware.

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I thought Fox "News" was bad but this lot really are dissembling scum.

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the internet has many negatives as well as positives

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The far-right 'news' website Breitbart has completely made up a story about a mob setting fire to Germany's oldest church while chanting "Allahu Akbar"

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/07/german-police-quash-breitbart-story-of-mob-setting-fire-to-dortmund-church

 

It's important to know this if either you come across a Breitbart article that you might otherwise assume was true, or if other people cite Breitbart as a source of information that has influenced their opinion. They make things up to whip up hatred against Muslims and migrants, and there is a clear parallel between this and anti-Jewish propaganda in the 1930s. Beware.

 

However, the facts are that a crowd of foreign people surrounded the church chanting Allahu Akhbar and the church caught fire.

 

Breitbart is trash reporting and blowing the facts out of proportion to make nonsense, but the German Police are also very good at denying racially aggravated anti social behaviour as well, as seen on NYE a few years ago ('what attacks?').

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/edited-1038-headline-works-well-a7512636.html

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And having a look at this dreaded site it gives a response,

 

"Fake ‘Fake News’:

Media Sow Division with Dishonest Attack on Breitbart’s

‘Allahu Akbar’ Church Fire Story"

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fake news is definitely getting worse

 

Fake news is also becoming the phrase people use for anything they dont agree with, how can fake news be weeded out and who will be the ones assigned to police it, it is a mammoth task, who could you trust to filter it out ?

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Fake news is also becoming the phrase people use for anything they dont agree with, how can fake news be weeded out and who will be the ones assigned to police it, it is a mammoth task, who could you trust to filter it out ?

 

You'd like to say auntie Beeb but they don't even know who they're interviewing 4ft away!

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how can fake news be weeded out and who will be the ones assigned to police it, it is a mammoth task, who could you trust to filter it out ?

thats exactly it Oo

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Fake news is also becoming the phrase people use for anything they dont agree with, how can fake news be weeded out and who will be the ones assigned to police it, it is a mammoth task, who could you trust to filter it out ?

 

Well, it would be good if you could have a single source of news that was 'the truth' because the people controlling it said it was.

 

Could be a natural authoritarian backlash to 'fake' news.

 

In the USSR the main print news was 'Pravda', which literally means 'Truth'

 

Failing that the state could take control over all media.

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Are we only learning this now?

 

Don't google Steve Bannon guys, you won't like it.

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