Reply to: Fake news...

[Jog On]

Have you read an RT story about Soviet Union and now Russia doing it en masse?

Can't believe anything on RT, it's fake news mate

[AtW]

This BBC story is about the UK doing it.

Have you read an RT story about Soviet Union and now Russia doing it en masse?

[Jog On]

No, there is no such consensus.

General consensus is that Russia creating fake news in massive quantities, that get repeated by morons (AKA useful idiots as Lenin correctly called your type) like you.

This BBC story is about the UK doing it.

[AtW]

General consensus seems to be that it's OK for us to do it

No, there is no such consensus.

General consensus is that Russia creating fake news in massive quantities, that get repeated by morons (AKA useful idiots as Lenin correctly called your type) like you.

[Jog On]

Who has said that it is okay when we do it?





Whether or not there is a dedicated government department to it, it would be fairly naive to assume that political manipulation through misinformation and the media doesn’t continue today.

Political misinformation not only by politicians, but by powerful people that want to influence politicians.

General consensus seems to be that it's OK for us to do it because it's our fake news and we're the good guys doing it for noble reasons. Just ask all those dead Iraqis.

I wonder if the BBC are posting this to try and win some credibility as 'real news'.

[NotAllThere]

Whether or not there is a dedicated government department to it, it would be fairly naive to assume that political manipulation through misinformation and the media doesn’t continue today.

Political misinformation not only by politicians, but by powerful people that want to influence politicians.

All true. But until there's evidence of the UK doing it on the scale that Russia (for example) does it, I shall not be particularly bothered, nor shall I claim a moral equivalence (what the UK did in the 60's is the same as what Russia is doing today).

[meridian]

So it's OK when we do it and fake news is not a bad thing.

Who has said that it is okay when we do it?

It happened 50 years ago. If there was any evidence it was still going on, I might give a toss.

Whether or not there is a dedicated government department to it, it would be fairly naive to assume that political manipulation through misinformation and the media doesn’t continue today.

Political misinformation not only by politicians, but by powerful people that want to influence politicians.

[NotAllThere]

So it's OK when we do it and fake news is not a bad thing.

It happened 50 years ago. If there was any evidence it was still going on, I might give a toss.

[Jog On]

So it's OK when we do it and fake news is not a bad thing.

[AtW]

We still hate them just as much.

Why like them?

[NotAllThere]

We still hate them just as much.

Even though it no longer exists? Why do you hate them anyway? Was your grandad fifteen years in a gulag, or it it just the usual inchoate rage?

[Jog On]

Russia is no USSR, moron.

We still hate them just as much.

[AtW]

Not unlike the situation we have today...

Russia is no USSR, moron.

[meridian]

Not unlike the situation we have today...

It has always been thus.

Trojan Horse? Good bit of “fake news”, that one.

[Jog On]

It was Cold War, moron, which could have turned into Hot.

And you should try to count how many lies USSR produced - even if you cou t them in just one source: newspaper called Pravda (Truth).

Not unlike the situation we have today...