Марк Дайс - The True Story of Fake News - How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

Wikipedia also uses their home page to highlight featured articles and have an “On This Day in History” section and other trivia boxes which all promote liberal causes, and progressive historical figures and activists. Frontpage magazine did an investigation into Wikipedia’s liberal bias and published their results in a two part series titled “How the Left Conquered Wikipedia.” It starts off saying, “Finding examples of Wikipedia’s bias is not difficult. One need only compare the entries of figures who do the same thing but from opposite sides of the political spectrum.” 723

They compared the pages of several prominent conservative political commentators like Ann Coulter to popular liberals like Michael Moore and found that the negative bias was overwhelming. At the time of their investigation the “Controversies and Criticism” section of Ann Coulter’s page was over 35% of the article, where Michael Moore’s was under 5% in terms of the word count. 724The Criticism section on Keith Olbermann’s page was also just 5% of the article.

Che Guevara’s page had less than 2% dedicated to criticism. He’s the Leftist communist revolutionary who is adored by liberals even though he oversaw the executions of at least one hundred political prisoners in Cuba. 725Editors also guard the Southern Poverty Law Center’s page, along with its founder Morris Dees. For example information about Morris Dees’ alleged abuse of his ex-wife and his supposed affairs keep getting censored from his page. 726The SPLC is the organization dedicated to painting conservatives as racists, homophobic, xenophobic, and anti-government extremists.

After Google put ‘human rights activist’ Yuri Kochiyama on their homepage in May of 2016 as a “Google Doodle,” some media outlets pointed out that she openly admired Osama Bin Laden and other violent revolutionaries like Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. 727Wikipedia editors quickly removed such information from her page and tried to hide the fact that she was a black supremacist. An edit war ensued and editors settled on having her page admit she supported black “separatism.”

Breitbart News pointed out that the edit log showed the page had been edited more times in the 24 hours after she was featured on Google’s home page than it had been edited in the last two years combined, and conclude that, “The Wikipedia edit log is a stark example of the lengths to which the left will go to rewrite history.” 728

A study of the demographics of Wikipedia editors found that over 85% of them were men with an average age of 27, most of whom do not have a girlfriend or any kids. 729It appears many of them are loners trying to gain a sense of power by controlling how the world sees the people or issues they write about.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says that the day after the election of Donald Trump he came up with an idea for a news website to “combat fake news.” A few months later, the WikiTribune was announced. “That was when I really decided to move forward,” he told The Guardian , speaking of Trump’s victory. 730

Wales said, “The news is broken and we can fix it. We’re bringing genuine community control to our news with unrestricted access for all. We’re developing a living, breathing tool that’ll present accurate information with real evidence, so that you can confidently make up your own mind.” 731

It’s paid for by crowdfunding and started with an initial staff of ten journalists. 732 The Guardian pointed out, “Those who donate will become supporters, who in turn will have a say in which subjects and story threads the site focuses on. And Wales intends that the community of readers will fact-check and subedit published articles.” 733So it sounds like the WikiTribune will have some of the same flaws as Wikipedia.

While it may have been a noble idea in theory that having a community of users who watch pages and are able to add to them or correct errors, as Frontpage points out, “Wikipedia in practice has strayed from these utopian ideas because of the ease with which political and social bias trumps altruism.” 734

The fact that Wikipedia is the default online encyclopedia is horrifying considering I’ve only mentioned a handful of the problems the site has. And with the ability to misinform so many people with bias or malicious information, it should not be considered a reliable source of information and should just be avoided altogether.

CNN started out as the first cable news network, which is what CNN actually stands for, when it was launched in 1980 by entrepreneur Ted Turner. Back then it was revolutionary and changed the entire news industry by rapidly deploying correspondents anywhere around the world and covering breaking news as it happened, but today CNN is just a shell of its former self. As comedian Larry Wilmore once said, “I’ve been watching CNN a long time. Yep. I used to watch it back when it was a news network.” 735

As the 2016 election approached, CNN’s coverage got more biased and absurd by the day, and after Trump won, they completely fell off the rails and lost any resemblance to a news network whatsoever. At first their pundits blamed Trump’s victory on a “white lash” and “white supremacists,” and then they veered off into the Twilight Zone, attacking President Trump for eating two scoops of ice cream and speculated that he may be “afraid of stairs” because he held onto the handrail when exiting Air Force One.

President Trump famously pushed back against their odd and obsessive attacks telling their White House correspondent Jim Acosta that CNN was “fake news” which caused the network to have even more animosity towards the new president.

Just two months after the election, with their reputation in shambles, CNN’s president Jeff Zucker said he felt like his network’s credibility “is higher than ever.” 736Let’s not forget this is the network where host Fareed Zakaria boldly declared just before the election, “Trump will lose, and he will then destroy the Republican Party,” 737and the tone of their coverage as the election approached gave the impression that Hillary’s victory was inevitable.

CNN’s reputation has been so damaged in recent years that host Jake Tapper was singled out by President Obama during the 2016 White House Correspondents Dinner when Obama joked that Tapper left journalism to join CNN. 738Poor Jake even admitted that his own seven-year-old son now calls him ‘fake news’ to taunt him. 739

For decades, CNN has been selling their anchors’ likeness and their trademarked logo to be used in fake news segments in Hollywood films. 740CNN’s now defunct show Crossfire recorded a fake segment for Jody Foster’s film Contact (1997); Larry King, once the face of the network, has played himself in various films where he staged discussions to make them look like they were part of his CNN show; Bernard Shaw, the network’s lead news presenter for twenty years, recorded a fake news segment for Jurassic Park: The Lost World (1997) ; and Anderson Cooper recorded a fake news segment for Batman vs. Superman in 2016. 741So at this point it would be inaccurate to say that CNN wasn’t producing fake news, but their unethical and deceptive actions go far beyond scripting fictional news segments for movies.

Like the time they conducted what looked like a live interview via satellite between Ashleigh Banfield and Nancy Grace using the standard split screen display with each of them appearing to be in different parts of the country, but some viewers at home happened to notice that the same cars, trucks, and even a giant bus were seen driving by in the background behind each of them, passing by one person then just a second or two later, the same vehicles would drive right past the other because they were standing right next to one another in the same parking lot. 742