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To: longnshort who wrote (1001021)	2/20/2017 4:45:59 AM
From: FJB	of 1576725

Little Screech Zuckerberg might have given rise the phrase that has DESTROYED the credibility of the MSM. Thanks SCREECH for finally doing something positive! ================================================= forbes.com That date is significant because it is the day after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg famously proclaimed at the Techonomy conference that “Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, of which it’s a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea … I do think there is a certain profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason someone could have voted the way they did is they saw some fake news.” The founder of the world's most popular social network pushing back on the assertion that false information on his platform played any meaningful role in the presidential election captivated the press and media scholars. Mentions of “fake news” on the major networks centered around Zuckerberg’s comments for the coming days, but died off until “Pizzagate” in which a shooter, motivated by reading false reports of a child sex ring at DC pizza restaurant Comet Ping Pong, arrived with an assault rifle to investigate the matter himself. This event suddenly made “fake news” real for the American public, and transformed it from a vague election conspiracy theory into a very real physical threat. Once again the phrase fell out of interest until President Trump’s press conference on January 11, 2017 in which he labeled CNN “fake news.” With this one statement the President-elect completed the transition of the phrase “fake news” from Zuckerberg’s focus on maliciously and willfully false clickbait into a pejorative catch-all for journalistic error.

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