Thursday, February 1, 2018

Fake News becoming Real Headlines

In 2016 Marco Chacon published a story on his website about Hillary Clinton's speech in which she called Bernie Sanders supporters a "Bucket of losers" The story was posted on RealTrueNews.org . To his surprise, the story got noticed by Fox News and soon became viral on news. "It would have been the scoop of a lifetime, but the problem was Chacon had made the whole thing up."  Fox News did issue an apology on screen soon after but fake news travels faster than you think. He was shaked  on seeing the headlines go viral and the responses it received. “My hands were shaking, I was like, ‘This is ridiculous,’” he said. “I was thinking that, that had gone way too far.”  [121 Words , 1 Link , 2 Quotes , 1 picture]

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