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Bullshit Artist Dr. Oz Is Doing an Episode About Fake News
http://gizmodo.com/bullshit-artist-dr-oz-is-doing-an-episode-about-fake-n-1792646633?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflowDr. Oz is full of shit. And that’s not just my opinion, it’s science! A study from 2014 found that the advice on Dr. Oz’s show is baseless or wrong roughly half of the time. So it’s a bit rich that today’s episode of The Dr. Oz Show is about fake news.
Who are Dr. Oz’s guests for this fine program? One is Jestin Coler, the owner of Disinfomedia, which runs fake news sites. But Coler’s sites aren’t “fake news” in the way that some people scream the term when they see news they simply don’t like—Coler’s dozens of websites publish stories that have all been written to deceive and go viral. And rake in a lot of money in the process.
Do you remember the story about an FBI agent who was investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails and killed himself after murdering his wife? Yeah, that was Coler. The story got 1.6 million views in a week.
Or how about the story that Dearbon, Michigan had instituted Sharia Law? That was one of Coler’s websites, too. And what about that story of Pope Francis saying the Koran and the Bible are the same thing? That was also Coler.
I can’t wait to hear what this opportunistic shitstain has to say about the garbage world he helped create. Luckily, Dr. Oz has provided a helpful promotional teaser that shows us some of what Coler has to say.
Who are Dr. Oz’s guests for this fine program? One is Jestin Coler, the owner of Disinfomedia, which runs fake news sites. But Coler’s sites aren’t “fake news” in the way that some people scream the term when they see news they simply don’t like—Coler’s dozens of websites publish stories that have all been written to deceive and go viral. And rake in a lot of money in the process.
Do you remember the story about an FBI agent who was investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails and killed himself after murdering his wife? Yeah, that was Coler. The story got 1.6 million views in a week.
Or how about the story that Dearbon, Michigan had instituted Sharia Law? That was one of Coler’s websites, too. And what about that story of Pope Francis saying the Koran and the Bible are the same thing? That was also Coler.
I can’t wait to hear what this opportunistic shitstain has to say about the garbage world he helped create. Luckily, Dr. Oz has provided a helpful promotional teaser that shows us some of what Coler has to say.
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