This OP, that has 188 recs on the front page, is false:

[demmiblue]

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100216559070


Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/england-banned-fox-news/


The Ardern portion:

Link to tweet

People pointed it out, yet the recs kept/keep coming.


UPDATE: it has been taken off the front page.

[mitch96]

1. As I heard a staunch conservative say: "I hate it when a good lie gets found out"... HA❗️

[IronLionZion]

10. I doubt they hate it that much

since their good lies are always found out, and they keep on lying knowing their people will keep spreading it. They go with saturation knowing that fewer people will notice any corrections or care if it's debunked.

[mitch96]

12. "their good lies are always found out" These fauxNoise idiots don't care b/c they WANT to believe

The truth has no real defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.
M

[Sherman A1]

2. The OP should delete the post and if not

The admins should do so,

[demmiblue]

3. It has been removed from the front page, so there's that. n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. I think it should be kept in place, if the choice is up to the administrators.

The OP can choose to do what he wants.

My reasoning is that the OP received a lot of blowback from people who are not so keen on giving up iA.

As Thomas Jefferson, referring to the University of Virginia, tweeted from his iPhone the other day:

for here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Source: https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/follow-truth-quotation

And good morning.

[Sherman A1]

22. Good points and Good Morning

Have a great National Carrot Day!

Celebrate Safely!

[Pachamama]

4. I made sure I removed my like - I see many who liked who I know would do same once they know

[70sEraVet]

5. Thanks for keeping us honest!

[brush]

6. So does Murdock have a media outlet in Australia?

Joe Biden in his soon-to-out book calls him the most dangerous man in the world.

[NJCher]

8. yes

https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/australia

[IronLionZion]

13. Yes, and he has Sky News which airs throughout much of the world

including Australia. He has some newspapers and trashy tabloids too. Australia revoked his citizenship when he acquired US citizenship.

[onenote]

36. Sky News UK and Sky News International are owned by Comcast, not Murdoch.

Sky News Australia is still owned by News Corp.

And more accurately, Murdoch renounced his Australian citizenship when he obtained US citizenship.

[stopdiggin]

7. it's a disservice

and I'm not sure why there is a tolerance ...

---- --- ----

Disappointing when seems there is a certain acceptance of the GW Bush principle of "truthiness." But this one goes further and was just flat out manufactured lie.

[BlackSkimmer]

9. Seems to be a hit and run thread too.

I wish DU had a way to remove obviously false threads. I’ve seen this before.

Not a good look.

[ForgedCrank]

29. I see it

happen quite frequently.
I understand how easy it can be to fall for BS. There is so much of it in circulation now, one has to spend more time researching an article that reading the article itself.
The difference is owning it and scrubbing it when it's found out.
I've probably gone too far the other direction as I won't believe anything I read until I spend the time on it, most especially twitter links.

[IronLionZion]

11. We should leave fake news to the other side

our side shouldn't spread false information like Fox News does.

[The Jungle 1]

14. Repuke motto

Never waste a good lie.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

15. Ironic isn't it,

here we fight fake news all the time, yet on this very site, we have someone posting fake news and refuses to remove it.

[llashram]

16. wishful thinking...?

[demmiblue]

17. Duty To Warn on Twitter:

Link to tweet

16.2 K Retweets, 74.2 K Likes.


They posted this today:

Link to tweet

A little self-reflection is in order.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. People will rec anything

I'm guilty of it too. It's like giving away your vote to a candidate you know nothing about.

[Iggo]

39. I've been known to recommend a lousy op with a good thread under it.

Don’t always be so sure what a “rec” means.

[Jetheels]

19. Idk, maybe they keep it up so there's a chance DUers might see the problem. If it were removed

It would just disappear.

[Cassidy]

23. Thank you demmiblue, for giving us the facts!

[Martin68]

24. Thanks for clarifying this for the record. Repeating and sharing disinformation, whether

or not it might have a liberal bias, just does us harm.

[Ms. Toad]

25. Par for the course. We suffer from confirmation bias nearly as much as the right.

I haven't read the responses her yet - but I will be surprised if there aren't excuses for why it's just fine to (1) not check and (2) repeat the lie even once we know it is a lie.

ETA: Pleasantly surprised that there are only a couple saying the kinds of things I've seen said in other threds like this one.

[mwooldri]

26. It may be fake but some people like fake.

Including me.

I've been promised a pink fluffy unicorn for a long time now. Where is it?

[demmiblue]

33. ...

[FoxNewsSucks]

27. I saw that earlier, maybe the poster

is at work and will fix it next time they check in. Not everyone monitors this site 24/7 to immediately jump right on what others want.

In any case, the sentiment is not inaccurate. Murdoch media has done incredible damage to politics and civil society. Fox "NewZ" was removed in Canada for violating the law requiring news media to not lie. So it's not a stretch to think New Zealand may have done the same.

Actually it reminds me of this one that went around a few years ago



It also turned out not to be an actual quote. But it definitely does accurately describe republicon voters and sounds like something MF45 would say.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

28. The real problem is that people gleefully pass on things

without making any effort to see if it's true, or what the source is. It happens all too often.

Be skeptical of everything.

[Yonnie3]

30. "Be skeptical of everything"

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

34. Yep. It's a mantra that has served me very well.

Plus, I learn stuff.

[BlackSkimmer]

31. Kick.

[Yonnie3]

32. .

This deserves a kick

[Kaleva]

35. It's human nature to readily believe that which supports one's world view

[BlackSkimmer]

38. And still not deleted.

The poster has been on DU since this was pointed out, but still leaving the thread up. SMH.