ATTN: all DU'ers who rec'd the OP about a Mamdani/kennedy interaction.

[niyad]

Please be aware that it was shown to be FAKE NEWS. It NEVER happened. It would have been a thing of beauty, had it been real.

[leftstreet]

1. DURec

[niyad]

3. Thank you.

[MontanaMama]

2. Kick.

I’m weary of fake news posts. Thank you, niyad, for this thread.

[niyad]

4. You are most welcome. Satire is one thing, fake news is deplorable.

[Arthur_Frain]

41. Would be nice if, as the community we long to be,

We could plainly label satire, or confine it to a particular forum, and mercilessly delete fake news, banning those who post it from posting again for a temporary period, with a 3 strikes and out rule for a longer ban.

It’s tough not to be snookered by fake news, and it’s going to get tougher. None of us can shirk responsibility for vigilance against it. Spreading misinformation and disinformation is reprehensible.

Way too much thoughtless reposting of video here with no summary, and too many who never check back.

[niyad]

44. I don't really think a separate forum is necessary, just a healthy

degree of sceptical cynicism.

[AllaN01Bear]

23. mom said this ," be careful of what you read, see. and or hear.

[Wednesdays]

33. ...

[niyad]

36. That one and its variants crack me up!

[mcar]

5. I thought it sounded too dramatic to be true

All the "CNN staff were speechless" nonsense.

[niyad]

6. That, and the fact that there was no video, just for starters.

[sop]

9. Yeah, when have cable tv talking heads ever been at a loss for words?

[niyad]

14. A most excellent point!!!

[MagickMuffin]

7. Yep, still up even after being asked by the admins to delete it

Seems odd they wouldn't delete it, after being told it's fake and then ignoring the Admins, well, makes one go hmmmmmmm!

I see so many of this crap on fb. This celebrity said this or did that, and it's the same this or did that for all the celebs.

That's always a tell, no matter how legit they make it sound, Jake Tapper is used a lot. But if it is being as being aired on CNN or any other outlet, it can be doubled checked, but I just move on because at that point it is pretty obvious it's ai slop and not real.

[niyad]

12. From what I gather from several responses in that thread, this was not

a first for the OP. I hope that is incorrect.

I do not trust most of the msm, these days I assume they are lying until proven otherwise. A sad state of affairs. There are a few (VERY FEW) sources to which I do give more credence.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. "It would have been a thing of beauty, had it been real." Which is why people fall for these things.

[niyad]

10. Call me cynical. .the better something appears, especially in these insane

times, the faster I move to verify.

[betsuni]

11. People want Democrats to be like TV show characters with perfect dialog and delivery, why they get so mad

at them for being regular humans. Also the tendency to assume conspiracy theories, complicity and bad intentions.

[niyad]

13. I do not understand what your post has to do with a fake news post.

[betsuni]

15. It turned a Democrat into a fictional character. Fiction is not real, fake. OP is about fake news.

[niyad]

17. sighhhhnh

[Maru Kitteh]

18. They also too often expect the media to fulfill a fantasy role.

Not everyone who “fails” to scream at Donald Trump and call him a.fucking greasy pig to his face is a whore protecting their access for Fox News Lite. There’s work to be done, and part of that sometimes involves the simple art of standing to one side while watching him trip over his own lips on the way down the stairs.

[betsuni]

20. Absolutely!

I'll see an interview and think it's fine but lots of people mad the interviewer didn't fact check "push back" every single thing, but that's impossible most of the time.

[Maru Kitteh]

31. Well, and it's not really their job to tell us what they think or worse yet, what

we should think. They’re not meant to be stand-ins for our daydreams of vengeance.

[Maru Kitteh]

16. I didn't even click on that one but thanks for pointing out fakery. I've told Mr. Maru,

when you see something remarkable, START by assuming it is fake, then try to prove it real with reliable sourcing.

[niyad]

19. Being quite cynical, that is pretty much the way I try to do things.

[Maru Kitteh]

21. I guess it's kind of always been true, right? It's just things are faster now

The fakes are easier to make than they’ve ever been and so they come at us faster - but fake information has always been a problem.

[niyad]

22. You are quite correct. On the flip side, being able to find out the fakes

also happens much faster.

[AllaN01Bear]

24. mom said this ," be careful of what you read, see and or hear.

[niyad]

40. So very true!

[Hope22]

25. Thanks niyad nt💗

[niyad]

39. You are most welcome.

[surfered]

26. Thank you for the fact check. I looked and couldn't find it

[niyad]

32. It wasn't me. .other DU'ers found out very quickly, and kept posting

that it was fake, but it seemed that a good many people were not paying attention in that thread. So I tried here.

[surfered]

34. It's hard to absolutely prove a fake, except lacking proof that it exists.

I was caught early on posting something from Facebook that wasn’t factual and had to delete it. Since then I try to always post the source.

I like the DU community tries to keep it real.
🙏

[niyad]

35. Ad do I !!!

[progree]

27. It's been self-deleted. At long last /nt

[niyad]

29. Finally!!!

[progree]

45. And thank you very much for the persistent pressure on that person in that thread /nt

[niyad]

46. You are most welcome. A number of people in that thread tried.

I am just glad that it was finally taken down, but too many people saw it and believed.

[orangecrush]

28. Thanks

Disinformation has no place here.

[niyad]

30. You are most welcome. Thank goodness we have so many alert,

media-savvy DU'ers who can find these things quickly.

[Conjuay]

37. Ha!

I bet you say the same thing about unicorns!

[niyad]

38. Now how could I possibly say that??? My beautiful Silver Girl would be

highly offended!!!

[a kennedy]

42. 😥 😥 😥 😥 😥

Damn, I wanted it to be true.

[niyad]

43. I think most people did. The fake good ole boy definitely needs

to be put in his place, so one dared to hope!