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Alex Jones' Retirement Announcement Video Is As Surreal As You'd Expect It To Be

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This CNN Article About Fake News on Facebook Is The Definition of Fake News (and Clickbait)

Oh we might have reached peak 2017 baby. This is a fake news story about Russian fake news. (Of course it's from CNN.) Let's dive right in shall we? Dylan Byers starts off this true gem of journalism with the headline: "Facebook estimates 126 million people were served content from Russia-linked pages" Googley moogley! That is a big number. 126 million ? Million ? With a M? Oh shet. I better click this... Hmmmm... let's see.... "Facebook will inform lawmakers this week that roughly 126 million Americans may have been exposed to content generated on its platform by the Russian government-linked troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency between June 2015 and August 2017, CNN has learned." I love how they say "exposed" like it's swine flu or some shet. Like Russian clickbait mills are giving people HIV. "That estimate, which is equivalent to more than half of the total U.S. voting population, offers a new u...
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