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Fake News Hysteria Just Creates More Uncertainty in What Truth Really Is

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> Hillary Clinton's 30 year public service work is a fact. Is it? IMO all of it was cast into doubt the moment it came out that her foundation is just a front to get money from foreign interests.

Millions of people with tropical diseases were treated thanks to the Clinton Foundation, yet it's all "just a front". Sure.

Wasn't there a water-downed HIV Clinton Foundation scandal? Or the Haiti scandal?

Sounds like the Clinton Foundation is just a scam.

Re: Fake News Hysteria Just Creates More Uncertainty in What Truth Really Is

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Fox News has been doing the fake/biased news thing for a long time: http://johnhaller.com/useful-stuff/faux-news Plus, your post is literally buying into the 'media downplayed Trump's crowd' and the 'picture was taken before the inauguration' fake news story. The picture was taken at the peak. They even released the video to prove it. Trump's crowd was about on par with George W Bush's. In other words, less than half…

>They even released the video to prove it. Very misleading video. That video doesn't show the whole day. Here is a picture showing the crowds later in the day. https://i.redd.it/romblz2zsxay.jpg That video only show earlier in the day, before people started filling it up, as indicated by the time-stamp here... http://i.imgur.com/cLiofdu.png Here's a photo closer to the end, showing the crowds goes all the way to the…

The front low-angle picture is the one Trump fans use to "disprove" the story. Its angle hides the swaths of empty space that were filled during Obama's first inauguration. Not to mention that the low-angle front picture obscures the Obama 2009 crowd spilling out the sides.

The picture you linked was taken earlier in the day, but is not the one used in the comparisons on news sites. That picture was taken around the time the Obama 2009 one was taken and shows Trump's crowd slightly more filled in: http://i.imgur.com/17nLdRl.jpg

Obama's inauguration broke all records and Trump's didn't come close. The scary point is that Trump felt the need to lie about it. They even admitted it with their "alternative facts" line. Openly lying about things that are demonstrably false is his way of distracting from other issues.

Re: Fake News Hysteria Just Creates More Uncertainty in What Truth Really Is

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>They even released the video to prove it. Very misleading video. That video doesn't show the whole day. Here is a picture showing the crowds later in the day. https://i.redd.it/romblz2zsxay.jpg That video only show earlier in the day, before people started filling it up, as indicated by the time-stamp here... http://i.imgur.com/cLiofdu.png Here's a photo closer to the end, showing the crowds goes all the way to the…

The front low-angle picture is the one Trump fans use to "disprove" the story. Its angle hides the swaths of empty space that were filled during Obama's first inauguration. Not to mention that the low-angle front picture obscures the Obama 2009 crowd spilling out the sides. The picture you linked was taken earlier in the day, but is not the one used in the comparisons on news sites. That picture was taken around the…

Your photo showing Trump had little people actually came from 8 AM in the morning, as by the upload time-stamp here:

http://imgur.com/cLiofdu

Notice the time-stamp.

The following photo show way more people: https://i.redd.it/romblz2zsxay.jpg

Here is a photo showing near back end, showing the crowds goes all the way to the back, almost comparable to Obama's.

https://i.reddituploads.com/a3495b511eed42509c6f3a82b853996f...

Re: Fake News Hysteria Just Creates More Uncertainty in What Truth Really Is

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The front low-angle picture is the one Trump fans use to "disprove" the story. Its angle hides the swaths of empty space that were filled during Obama's first inauguration. Not to mention that the low-angle front picture obscures the Obama 2009 crowd spilling out the sides. The picture you linked was taken earlier in the day, but is not the one used in the comparisons on news sites. That picture was taken around the…

Your photo showing Trump had little people actually came from 8 AM in the morning, as by the upload time-stamp here: http://imgur.com/cLiofdu Notice the time-stamp. The following photo show way more people: https://i.redd.it/romblz2zsxay.jpg Here is a photo showing near back end, showing the crowds goes all the way to the back, almost comparable to Obama's. https://i.reddituploads.com/a3495b511eed42509c6f3a82b853996f…

Incorrect. Compare it to your 8am photo and it is much more filled in. Please post another rear image from the Washington monument to properly compare the two. Or keep posting low-angle front-shot photos to fit your personal narrative.

Re: Fake News Hysteria Just Creates More Uncertainty in What Truth Really Is

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Apropos of not much, I created a Chrome extension that replaces the phrases "fake news" and "alternative facts" with the phrase "real-life fanfic." It's made my browsing over the past few days much more enjoyable, including this post and these comments. Also, my first Chrome extension, so yay learning! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fake-news-to-real-...

that's badass!
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