All the News that Fits 0
It’s time to stop worrying about “fake news” and start worrying about fake newspapers.
Snopes reports that wealthy right-wing donors are setting up websites pretending to belong to local newspapers and designed to look like local newspaper websites for newspapers that do not, in fact, exist. Here’s a snippet (emphasis added):
Remember, just because you see it on a computer screen, it ain’t necessarily so. Check the bona fides of sources you use for news.
One technique is to check the purported news stories for links to sources; no links indicate dubious or nonexistent sources. Also, links from random Facebook Frolickers and twisty Twitter Trolls are hysterically unreliable.
H/T to The Bob Cesca Show for this news item.
