Quote from: Wilhelm on August 19, 2019, 04:15:19 PM

Quote from: bkbirge on August 19, 2019, 04:09:40 PM

Quote from: HairyMaclairy on August 19, 2019, 11:32:23 AM

Nope. Looks like you are serious. Have fun with that stuff. Keep an eye out for the lizard people.

LOL, out of sMerit, otherwise I'd give you all of 'em.

Snopes may not always be correct but I'd trust them far more than infowars. Also, the person who was objecting to the snopes link can always go there and verify *their* sources. The infowars type of places never seem to have verifiable sources, for obvious reasons.

I find this graphic to be useful as a gut check when reading online...

Source: https://www.adfontesmedia.com/

Nice graph. Saved it.
Looking at CNN and FOX NEWS and it seems to be spot on 👍🏻

Heres the thing.

I am an avowed leftie and I have never heard of any of the organizations on the hard left of the spectrum, other than Daily KOS. And I cant remember having recently read anything on Daily KOS.

But the hard right organizations like Fox News are everywhere. I regularly read Fox News articles just to see the Republican spin. A classic technique at Fox News is not to report the news, but to report someones reaction to news. For example, Republican X does something bad. So Fox News reports that Democrat is politicizing issue Y by criticising Republican X. Fox News would never directly say Republican X did something wrong but they will go into deep detailed reporting on why Republican Z is right to criticize the Democrat for politicizing issue Y. Watching Fox News is like watching a series of Youtube reacts videos.

This chart portrays left and right as balanced, but completely neglects to consider that the hard right channels are massively funded by billionaires such as Murdoch and Koch, and have massive reach into middle America. Old people get all their news from Fox News and so middle Americas values are shaped by the outcomes that billionaires want to create.

By comparison, wtf is Guacamoley. Sounds like a Mexican recipe site.