Trump, 'We are fighting the fake news,' our list shows one 'fake' story a day

Starting on the eve of Inauguration Day, there have been at least 33
often widely reported false stories about the president and his team.

to a CBS report that the president packed a CIA audience with cheering staffers. Wrong.

And six were distorted reports, like a Washington Post report on how Trump violated the "sacrosanct"
CIA Memorial Wall in giving a speech there. So did President Obama.

Our list doesn't even include the transition period or
presidential campaign, but media critics said the same thing happened then.

1 � Politico reported that a company overseen by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin had foreclosed on a 90-year-old woman for due to a 27-cent payment error. The Competitive Enterprise Institute determined that there was no foreclosure and a different company was involved.

3 � The New York Times and others reported that on Inauguration Day, Trump's team scrubbed climate change and references to LGBT from the White House website.

6 � A Time reporter tweeted that Trump removed the Martin Luther King Jr. bust from Oval office. The reporter soon corrected the tweet.

21 � Longtime Hillary Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal wrote up a story in the London Review of Books about a racist political ad by Trump's father. It was widely spread in mainstream media social accounts. It was a fake.

23 � Several reports said that Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe discussed classified info at dinner table at Mar-a-Largo. They were discussing press conference plans for next day.

24 � Most mainstream media outlets have sneered that there was little or no voter fraud in the election. But a university analysis and separate poll indicated that 2 million "non-citizen" immigrants may have voted.

32 � Crowd size reports of a February anti-Trump protest in London ranged from 300,000 to 2,000. The Hill started at "hundreds of thousands" and the final story update was 7,000.

A majority of online and social media defenders of Obamacare are professionals who are "paid to post," according to a digital expert.

"Sixty percent of all the posts were made from 100 profiles, posting between the hours of 9 and 5 Pacific Time," said Michael Brown. "They were paid to post.

"Thanos" said
"Fake

"Thanos" said
And I'm not sure what your grudge

The Washington Examiner is a right-wing political journal that goes into the areas you usually expect such publications to go into. It could be thought of as Townhall.com's more "respectable" cousin but even with that being said the site looks like a tabloid desperately trying to pass off as real news. It's not uncommon to see it used as a source among more extreme right-wingers who seem to like how proper the site pretends to be.

On science issues the site it pretty abysmal. Global warming denialism is rampant, as is myths about DDT bans and other anti-environmentalist rhetoric, leading to the site having a weird obsession with defending coal as being not all that damaging to the environment. Also, Barack Obama only beat Mitt Romney because of the damned liberal media, with implementing socialism being part of Obama's (and liberals) master plan. Basically the site is what you'd expect from a publication that makes most of its money from winding up wingnuts.

The print version of the Washington Examiner is given away to commuters at Washington, DC-area subway stations, where its main competitor is the Washington Post's Express

"Thanos" said
If it comes from any of you guys I'll rest assured that it's all lies from party HQ that you've been assigned to push. As opposed to the millions and millions who are at least smart enough to get paid by Soros first you guys are doing it for free. Goebbels and Streicher sure made their money off of followers like you.

And keeping having lots of fun in the Omnibus Islam thread that I created.

"raydan" said
Prison Planet.com... Alex Jones...

And you're complaining about fake news.

"Thanos" said
Interesting hearing any talk about morality and conscience from anyone who is in total love with a crook like Donald Trump. Have fun as you keep selling him what's left of your soul. I'm sure he really appreciates it.