Obama funding of anti-Trump propaganda has just ended, causing MSM to layoff hundreds of journalists.
Barack Obama quietly signed the “Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act” in 2016, designed to counter Trump’s influence with Americans and spread anti-Trump propaganda to the masses.
The Act allocated a whopping $160 MILLION taxpayer dollars to pay for Deep State-sponsored propaganda, spread by journalists at various far-left outlets.
The “Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act” not only allows the U.S. government to ban outlets deemed to be “Russian propaganda,” but gives them the ability to legally spread disinformation online via social networks and mainstream media outlets.
I always knew the corporate media was, in fact, STATE RUN.
Jaxon Rodriguez
And nothing of value was lost.
Camden Cox
total bullshit. you can't even name one reporter who's being laid off, let alone 1,000
Brandon Bailey
NewsPunch
NewsPunch is a Los Angeles-based fake news website that frequently spreads conspiracy theories and political misinformation mixed in with real news stories.
Originally named Your News Wire, it was founded in 2014 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and Sinclair Treadway. In November 2018, it rebranded itself as NewsPunch, and began redirecting yournewswire.com traffic to newspunch.com.
A 2017 Buzzfeed News report identified NewsPunch as being the second-largest source of popular fake stories spread on Facebook that year, and a June 2018 Poynter analysis identified NewsPunch as being debunked over 80 times in 2017 & 2018 by Poynter-accredited factcheckers such as Snopes, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and the Associated Press.
The European Union's East StratCom Task Force has criticized NewsPunch for spreading Russian propaganda, a charge Adl-Tabatabai denies.
Regular contributors to NewsPunch include Adl-Tabatabai, a former BBC and MTV employee from London previously employed by professional conspiracy theorist David Icke, Adl-Tabatabai's mother Carol Adl, an alternative health practitioner, and Baxter Dmitry, who had previously been posing as an unrelated Latvian man using a stolen profile photo.
Cameron King
Examples of fake news stories published by NewsPunchEdit
NewsPunch has published several false stories, including but not limited to:
Stories pushing the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory. NewsPunch was one of the first sites to propagate the conspiracy theory, publishing a falsified story that was later used as a basis for Pizzagate's viral spread among the alt-right.
Claims that the 2017 Las Vegas shootings and Manchester Arena bombings were false flags.
Anti-vaccination hoaxes alleging that Bill Gates refused to vaccinate his children and "admitted that vaccinations are designed so that governments can depopulate the world".
Claims that Hillary Clinton's popular vote victory in the 2016 United States Presidential election was the result of voter fraud.
Allegations that Clinton was responsible for Anthony Bourdain's suicide.
False claims that Justin Trudeau was the love child of Fidel Castro.
Adrian Harris
dude…. you spend all your time talking about 'real news', but you're so gullible that you read NEWSPUNCH, and don't even realize that it's a parody website !!!…..
Sebastian Reyes
Didn't their parent network just lose millions in a suit over spreading libel?
William Sanchez
nope… I AM THE ONE who called NewsPunch a parody website.
Angel Garcia
even further proof that you can't distinguish legitimate news from satire or outright lies.
Connor Flores
reported as bullshit
Leo Phillips
Yeah youre right huffington post didnt just fire a shit tonne of people or any other news outlet, no one has been posting the learn to code meme on twitter and no oke has been getting their shit pushed in daily online. Also water is the driest thing ever.
allow me to correct you. the huffington post layoffs had absolutely nothing to do with any “Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act”. In fact, it was Verizon who slashed the value of the division it had been calling Oath, which houses AOL, Yahoo and other businesses like the Huffington Post.
Ryan Jenkins
actually, it's YOU who was the one SO uninformed that you didn't even realize that Verizon owns The Huffington Post, AOL & Yahoo, and due tobinvestors complaints, they did a sweeping devaluation, and enacted a $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo-Huffington Post Writedown.
Caleb Williams
HuffPost laid off about 20 employees around the United States on Thursday, one day after its parent company, Verizon Media, announced it would cut 7 percent of its workforce.
About 750 Verizon Media employees were expected to lose their jobs. That announcement came more than a month after Verizon took a $4.6 billion write-down on HuffPost’s parent company, Oath (now called Verizon Media), which includes AOL, Yahoo and HuffPost.
Zachary Rivera
TWENTY EMPLOYEES
and they were the lowest level staff.
HuffPost lost 20 of its staff and Yahoo News lost 26, Polgreen said later Thursday in an all-hands meeting with HuffPost staff, according to several sources present.
The company has cut other costs, Polgreen said in that meeting, including shuttering its Germany edition. HuffPost Deutschland will close operations on March 31.
Alexander Barnes
hahahahaha!!!………
being so gullible, that you think there was a big 'secret Obama conspiracy' behind a simple shareholder's restructuring at Verizon.
Ethan Roberts
OATH a Verizon Media subsidiary, which also includes The Huffington Post
I couldn't give less of a fuck what you think or anybody else thinks. I'm simply here to call a spade a spade.
There were no 1,000 reporters fired from The Huffington Post. There was no secret conspiracy with Obama. The Earth is not flat. The Moon is not a hologram. The world's not going to end tomorrow. Pizzagate is complete bullshit, and Trump is an illiterate uneducated idiot.
Robert Torres
what OP does when he's proven wrong:
Pretend like he's somebody else and claim that 'the amount of damage control ITT lends credence to op's assertions'….
weak and decidedly lame.
Lucas Gray
Wow, you really have strong grasp on objective reality. Not one hint of bias. You're totally convincing everyone here to not vote Trump.
Noah Watson
I couldn't care any less who you or anybody else votes for.
Isaiah Sullivan
Chitterlings are pig intestines, and the pig feces must be scrubbed out several times before cooking them. They are enjoyed by niggers all over America.
I think they are disgusting.
But i couldn't care less if you or any other irrelevant nigger eats them for breakfast, lunch & dinner.
Wow, you really have strong grasp on objective reality. Not one hint of bias. You're totally convincing everyone here that Trump can read and spell.
Grayson Edwards
So Trump and Republicans say by for 2 years as this was happening and didnt talk about it or act on it? Seems legit.
Jacob Robinson
Serves them right.
Daniel Young
Exactly. Because they are controlled opposition. Two sides of the same ugly, rotten coin. Notice Trump keeps making threats and keeps caving on every single damn thing? All publicity stunt.
Dylan Gonzalez
Never even heard of it. Likely because I stick to reliable sources in the first place. REAL NEWS.
