Americans Say Fake News A Bigger Threat Than Terrorism

According to a new poll by the Pew Research Center, more Americans rank “fake news” as a greater threat to this country than terrorism, immigration, climate change, and even racism. On some of those points, they are correct, but on others they are way off. But fake and misleading news truly is a problem that we need to address as a nation, but considering that the actual fake news in this country tends to help Republicans, there’s little chance anything is going to change. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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According to the results of a new Pew Research Center poll, Americans now view fake news as a bigger threat to this country than terrorism, racism and climate change and immigration. Fake news according to most people is more important than every single one of those issues. Now on some of those issues, they're correct. Fake news is a bigger problem on the issue of climate change. Going to have to 100% disagree with you on that, although there is quite a bit of fake news and misinformation swirling around climate change and there has been for decades now, but nonetheless, climate change, yes, that is a bigger threat to us than fake news, but nonetheless, Americans actually do understand this problem or at least this pole would suggest that they do because after all the problems they rated as more important than fake news include things like affordability of healthcare and the income gap and fake news is just a couple of spots underneath those things.

But here is where it diverges a little bit because a majority of Republicans tend to blame the fake news problem according to this poll on actual journalists, whereas everyone else blames it on, you know, the, the fake memes going around out there, the social media spreading fake news, the right wing youtube er's and bloggers, the folks at Breitbart and zero hedge and Daily Caller and Daily Wire and Daily Idiot. Those are the people that everybody else says no, these guys are out here spreading fake news on a daily basis. While Republicans say no, it's those damn journalists, the CNN folks or the fake news. And there in lies the problem. And Axios actually reported on this. Donald Trump has weaponized the term fake news. He has weaponized it to mean anyone that reports something that is not flattering to him, to Donald Trump and to his supporters. That is what constitutes fake news for the rest of us living in reality.

It's the people out there sharing doctored videos, allegedly showing a, you know, doctors performing abortions and then playing with the fetuses. Uh, Matt Walsh of Matt Walsh blog actually posted a video of that that's currently going around Twitter.

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