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Giantone · 10-24-2018, 10:02 PM

Again someone out right lying and the Media catching it...........

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wi...of2&yptr=yahoo

News travels fast, but fake news travels even faster, especially when there’s a political agenda attached to it.

One glaring example took place over the weekend, when someone on Twitter TWTR, -4.28% posted a photograph of an injured police officer, with a caption that he’d been “brutalized” by the migrant caravan on its way to the United States.

Soon, it would spread across the internet, as these things do. Same picture. Mostly the same caption. But, as you can see by these examples, different accounts.

Nevertheless, plenty believed it. That long list apparently includes Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who posted it on her page:

10-24-2018, 10:02 PM	#713
Giantone Gamebreaker Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 14,388	Re: Media Bias Again someone out right lying and the Media catching it........... https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wi...of2&yptr=yahoo News travels fast, but fake news travels even faster, especially when there’s a political agenda attached to it. One glaring example took place over the weekend, when someone on Twitter TWTR, -4.28% posted a photograph of an injured police officer, with a caption that he’d been “brutalized” by the migrant caravan on its way to the United States. Soon, it would spread across the internet, as these things do. Same picture. Mostly the same caption. But, as you can see by these examples, different accounts. Nevertheless, plenty believed it. That long list apparently includes Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who posted it on her page: __________________ ....DISCLAIMER: All of my posts/threads are my expressed typed opinion and the reader is not to assume these comments are absolute fact, law, or truth unless otherwise stated in said post/thread.