The left is actively planting fake news to trick conservatives into sharing the stories so they can ridicule them. I covered this previously but there is much more to the story.
The publisher of the fake news site National Report Allen Montgomery" (a pseudonym) brazenly admitted to Wyomings Casper Star-Tribune We have been targeting Tea Party types recently as they are the most gullible and are willing to spread misinformation across the internet with little/no research." Conservative Headlines which has compiled a list of sites that troll conservatives" observed The site NationalReport.net seems to be actively trying to embarrass conservatives on social media."
People think it is a mainstream conservative/Tea Party site because they have a picture of Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz in their top banner. When a conservative website falls for one of their hoaxes and syndicates the story left-wing websites then mock them. NationalReport.net has become a source of entertainment for the Left." Vice Newsagreed in an article about the site: The hoaxes more frequently target the right wing territory dominated by Glenn Beck and Alex Jones."
One article on National Report fooled a Fox News host in 2013.
Read the rest of the article at The Stream
The left is actively planting fake news to trick conservatives into sharing the stories so they can ridicule them. I covered this previously but there is much more to the story.
The publisher of the fake news site National Report Allen Montgomery" (a pseudonym) brazenly admitted to Wyomings Casper Star-Tribune We have been targeting Tea Party types recently as they are the most gullible and are willing to spread misinformation across the internet with little/no research." Conservative Headlines which has compiled a list of sites that troll conservatives" observed The site NationalReport.net seems to be actively trying to embarrass conservatives on social media."
People think it is a mainstream conservative/Tea Party site because they have a picture of Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz in their top banner. When a conservative website falls for one of their hoaxes and syndicates the story left-wing websites then mock them. NationalReport.net has become a source of entertainment for the Left." Vice Newsagreed in an article about the site: The hoaxes more frequently target the right wing territory dominated by Glenn Beck and Alex Jones."
One article on National Report fooled a Fox News host in 2013.
Read the rest of the article at The Stream