Donald Trump said recently that «any negative
polls are fake news».
Not exact matches
A new Monmouth University
Poll out today says Americans
are concerned, in fact, 77 percent of the respondents believe «
fake news»
is reported at least occasionally in mainstream media.
[Note: the interviews for this
poll were conducted prior to recent stories about Cambridge Analytica's data mining of Facebook user profiles, which, while not directly a «
fake news» issue,
is related to the topic.]
The
poll also finds that a large majority of the public (86 %) believe that online
news websites also report
fake news, which
is up slightly from 80 % in March 2017.
Trump accused the «dishonest press» of avoiding coverage of terror attacks during a Monday speech — just hours after blasting reports of negative
poll ratings as «
fake news» while insisting he
's in charge at the White House.
«Beware the receiver of any message» could easily
be a modern battle cry for those inundated with advertisements, mass marketing, internet memes, deliberately deceptive
fake news reports, the growing practice of social manipulation through push
polling, and similar forms of agenda promotion via online discussion and sharing communities.
Lacking the ability to hack
polling stations, they push»
fake»
news, knowing how gullible a majority of American citizens
are, hence large numbers of low education deplorables vote Trump, instead of the obviously enlightened choice of Hillary.
A whopping 77 % of people
polled believe the mainstream media (television and print)
are pushing
FAKE NEWS.
There
's a new
poll out and it reveals the end
is near for our
fake news media.
He tweeted a
poll on September 8th, asking whether followers thought the shutdown
news was fake or real; so far, 83 percent have voted that they believe the
news is fake.