It was an American-generated “deception plan” designed to make Qaddafi nervous. Other outlets, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, later picked up the story. "There are increasing signs that resumed planning and preparations for terrorist acts,” the Journal wrote. Oh, and he was possibly facing an internal coup, too. and Libya are on a collision course.” The article said the American intelligence community had new information Moammar Qaddafi was planning terrorist acts and we therefore were planning to bomb the crap out of him. On August 25, 1986, the Wall Street Journal, citing multiple unnamed sources, stated without qualification “The U.S. The basic gist of the scoop is classified or otherwise unconfirmable. It involves national security or law enforcement The offending story type nearly always has the same elements: There is a loophole that involves a procedural flaw in Western journalism’s fact-checking tradition. As even Noam Chomsky said, newspapers are “full of facts.”
Most of what’s “fake” is in the caricature: of our own audiences, and especially of despised groups. There are no Fox stories saying blue states have lower divorce rates, but neither are there MSNBC stories admitting many pro-choice Democrats struggle with a schism between their moral and political beliefs on abortion. Most “lies” are errors of omission or emphasis. The public largely misunderstands the “fake news” issue. As an Appendix to Hate Inc., I had written up the following: The Times story had been sourced to multiple “current and former American officials.” How could it have been wrong? Or was Comey wrong?īoth stories belonged to an ancient tradition of reports, predating Russiagate, that live in a precarious loophole in the American system of media. ”Īsked by Idaho Senator James Risch about that story, Comey said, “ in the main, it was not true. Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee in June, 2017, former FBI director James Comey shot down a New York Times story from February 14th of that year suggesting Trump campaign officials had had repeated contacts with “senior Russian intelligence officials. Mueller’s statement said “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the special counsel’s office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office… are not accurate.” It was an extraordinary step, one an official in that position rarely takes unless it’s necessary. “Huge news just broke that indicates Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen lied to congress under the specific direction of Donald Trump himself… If you’re committed to holding Trump accountable… today is an important day to show it. This is from a mass mailing issued that same day by DNC chief Tom Perez: The BuzzFeed story said Donald Trump directed his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to congress, which would potentially have been a felony.ĭemocrats after the BuzzFeed piece broke not only wasted no time calling for impeachment, but within hours began fundraising to the story. On Friday, January 18, Special Counsel Robert Mueller took the unusual step of releasing a statement essentially shooting down the latest “bombshell” in the Russiagate story, which had been released by BuzzFeed earlier that day. Whether it looks more Facebook status-y or AIM to you, it’s definitely a throwback, and that means people came out hard with the memes.Call them “four-sourced clovers” – unverifiable scoops. Instagram Notes, which you can post by going to your DMs and sharing either with Close Friends or followers that you follow back, might just be the reincarnation of the messaging system. Sadly, AIM went away for good in December 2017 due to the lack of users, marking the end of Away Messages.
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When it came to making sure your Away Message was on point, song lyrics were a go-to option, as well as movie quotes. They were short and sweet, and they looked a lot like what the new Instagram Notes are bringing to your app some 20 years later. Even though AIM was shuttered in 2017, you can take a walk down memory lane with these Instagram Notes memes hilariously comparing the short statuses to AIM Away Messages.ĪOL Instant Messenger was the communication platform of the early 2000s, but even better than chatting with your friends was crafting the perfect Away Message to let them know you’d BRB. As soon as the message bubbles starting popping up, people quickly pointed out how the feature is so similar AIM Away Messages - you know, when you’d get crafty with old school emojis and your most angst-filled song lyrics. Your Instagram DMs might look a little different after the company rolled out Instagram Notes on Dec.
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