"It's pretty wild how much fake news David Pecker created for the guy who's always screaming fake news". #projection

[applegrove]

https://www.threads.net/@debpixcom/post/C6KFIIrARgY/?xmt=AQGzvBqfP1vJTAOt9eB8_kCCLk6ZCubRSGIR5i6jdmMLog

"It's pretty wild how much fake news David Pecker created for the guy who's always screaming fake news". #projection

Dave Sweet

[pwb]

1. When a puke says look over here, look over there.

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[Wounded Bear]

2. As usual, every accusation is a confession...

[maxsolomon]

3. Has everyone forgotten that "Fake News" was originally a Dem accusation?

Applied to Fox News and the rest of the RW Hate Machine, and Hair Furor flipped it on the MSM, and it stuck.

[applegrove]

4. Well it was true when applied to Faux. Not so when Trump applies it to

MSM, DOJ.

[maxsolomon]

5. Yeah, but in 2016, it was gaining traction to describe RW media.

Then we just ceded it to Trump.

From 2018: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42724320

On 8 December 2016, Hillary Clinton made a speech in which she mentioned "the epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over the past year."

"It's now clear that so-called fake news can have real-world consequences," she said. "This isn't about politics or partisanship. Lives are at risk… lives of ordinary people just trying to go about their days, to do their jobs, contribute to their communities."

Some journalists at the time interpreted her remarks as a reference to "Pizzagate", a bonkers conspiracy theory which sprouted and grew to tremendous proportions online.

President-elect Trump took up the phrase the following month, in January 2017, a little over a week before taking office. In response to a question, he said "you're fake news" to CNN reporter Jim Acosta. Around the same time he started repeating the phrase on Twitter.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R