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What drew my attention to this was Chris Brown's post on Instagram. This was very questionable. Stated in this article, "The anchors were forced to read the so-called journalistic responsibility messages word for word by their employer, the conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner of television stations in the country." If several of new stations/medias are repeating the same thing you would think its fact checking but if anchors are just doing their "jobs" and forced to read word from word by their employer than who knows could be false/fake news. To me people will do anything to get a story, views, etc.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/anchors-reciting-sinclair-propaganda-is-terrifying-in-unison.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=s3&utm_campaign=sharebutton-t
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/business/media/sinclair-news-anchors-script.html

Photoshop or Frankenstein's Monster?

Photoshop or Frankenstein's Monster?

You hear day in and day out about “alien sightings’ or seeing Sasquatch, but have you ever heard of a camel that is missing half its body? A recent Instagram post from the profile Wild Viewing posted a picture of a camel with only the front half of its body. The post was accompanied with the caption “This Camel in Saudi Arabia had lost half it’s body when it unfortunately wandered onto a land mine. After losing the back portion of its body, surgeons worked tirelessly arranging the internal organs into a functioning system. They also created the Camel a new functioning Anus. The Camel has made new friends with the local Ostrich family where they have adopted him as one of their own. The Camel is able to regurgitate water directly into the Ostriches mouths when there is no other water source available”. Anyone who saw that picture should have had their suspicions, but as the usual some people still believed. The picture looks as absurd as it sounds, and even though it isn't real it does make for one heck of a story!

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/half-body-camel/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BglaOdigunq/?hl=en&taken-by=wildviewing

Lion Murderer On Conservation Council?

Lion Murderer On Conservation Council?

Earlier this month people began circulating rumors that Walter Palmer, the person who shot Cecil the Lion, was appointed to a newly formed wildlife conservation council. This is not actually true though. The rumor came from a WashingtonPress.com article with a cryptic headline. The article itself was also very confusing which led to people posting on social media about something untrue. According to Snopes.com “The claim was widely misinterpreted, with many inferring from reports that the Trump administration had personally appointed Walter Palmer to the International Wildlife Conservation Council. Formation of the group was announced on 8 November 2017. Palmer was not listed among its sixteen members. This is just another example of how not looking into your sources can lead to the spread of misinformation.

https://washingtonpress.com/2018/03/16/trump-just-put-cecil-the-lions-killers-hunting-club-on-new-federal-wildlife-panel/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-cecil-lion-wildlife-conservation-council/