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A North Carolina man was arrested Sunday after he walked into a popular pizza restaurant in Northwest Washington carrying an assault rifle and fired one or more shots, D.C. police said. The man told police he had come to the restaurant to “self-investigate” a false election-related conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton that spread online during her presidential campaign.
A North Carolina man was arrested Sunday after he walked into a popular pizza restaurant in Northwest Washington carrying an assault rifle and fired one or more shots, D.C. police said. The man told police he had come to the restaurant to “self-investigate” a false election-related conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton that spread online during her presidential campaign.
Yes, it did do a good job damaging George Zimmerman's reputation. That is the risk we take in a free country where government does not decide what news can be broadcast.
The problem with fake news is that, basically, it is someone's opinion or fantasy.
The bloggers who push their fake news should be required to let their readers know that what they are writing about is their own opinion, just as other forms of media do, such as 'letters to the editor', or an editorial.
Legitimate forms of media always make note that "the following is my personal opinion" or words to that effect. The bloggers don't, and apparently don't have to do that. Their websites look like legitimate news sources, but they are not.
I'm certainly not against free speech, however, bloggers should play by the same rules as other media.
One of the people in the restaurant when this happened was sitting there having pizza with his two young daughters. What if this guy 'assumed' he was a pedophile and killed him? That could very easily have happened.
Bloggers should be required to post disclaimers, same as any other media must.
Who gets to decide what is "Fake News" and which blogs should be "shut down"?
Objectively, we know what "fake" means. It's made-up. It has no foundation. I often makes no sense.
There are websites out there that are making oodles of money just posting nonsense. They often have a disclaimer on the website that says that it's all nonsense. Often, but not all the time. But that disclaimer gets ignored by people who WANT to believe this nonsense, and then who act on their beliefs.
Yeah and when it's a public figure like Hillary, Trump, Bush then it makes it hard to go after them for slander....especially if some idiot blogger that has a net worth of about $57.60 and not some deep pocket media outlet.
This is NOT a new phenomenon however, but in the last decade or so the ability for any crackpot or political operative to get the word out has gotten easier.
What's funny is that the local partisans probably think that it's the OTHER guys that do it but not their side.
The problem with fake news is that, basically, it is someone's opinion or fantasy.
The bloggers who push their fake news should be required to let their readers know that what they are writing about is their own opinion, just as other forms of media do, such as 'letters to the editor', or an editorial.
Legitimate forms of media always make note that "the following is my personal opinion" or words to that effect. The bloggers don't, and apparently don't have to do that. Their websites look like legitimate news sources, but they are not.
I'm certainly not against free speech, however, bloggers should play by the same rules as other media.
One of the people in the restaurant when this happened was sitting there having pizza with his two young daughters. What if this guy 'assumed' he was a pedophile and killed him? That could very easily have happened.
Bloggers should be required to post disclaimers, same as any other media must.
I'd like to see the pizza store owner start a go-fund me for legal action against people posting this stuff about his business. Nothing major, just go after them for $1000 in lost revenues and legal fees....force them to lawyer up and most of them won't even fight it and you'll get a judgment against them that will dog them.
Might not win but if someone is going to call your biz a pedo ring would be nice to bury their arse in legal fees.
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