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Fake News Has Real Consequences

posted by on Tuesday December 06 2016, @12:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-believe-everything-you-read dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

The guardian reports on a sobering event in Washington DC.

US police have arrested a man wielding an assault rifle who entered a pizza restaurant that was the target of fake news reports it was operating a child abuse ring led by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top campaign aide.

[...] The suspect entered the restaurant and pointed a gun at a restaurant employee, who fled and notified authorities, police said. The man then discharged the weapon inside the restaurant. There were no injuries.

[...] [Police] said the suspect during an interview with investigators revealed that he came to the establishment to "self-investigate" Pizzagate, the police statement said. Pizzagate is a baseless conspiracy, which falsely claims Clinton and her campaign chief John Podesta were running a child sex ring from the restaurant's backrooms.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @05:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @05:53PM (#437890)

    CNN apparently wrote the story to imply that Russia was moving on Norway, as a consequence of Trump's election. Did you bother to READ?

    I did bother to read both the links and neither one of them say any such thing. Did you bother to read the links? Closer to the mark, it appears that Norway is now worried about Trump's apparent wavering commitment to honor a decades-old NATO alliance.

    The BEST that can be said of CNN, is that they sensationalised a routine story to alarm their readers. That is the BEST that can be said. We can say much worse.

    No, the sensationalism is coming from you and your Trump-supporting buddies. Next time, you would do well to read for content. You embarrass yourself (again!) when you make it obvious that you don't understand what is being discussed.