{"id":22887,"date":"2017-02-20T20:26:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T01:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22887"},"modified":"2017-02-20T20:53:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T01:53:37","slug":"phone-baloney-the-9-fakest-fake-news-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22887","title":{"rendered":"Phone Baloney: The 9 Fakest Fake-News Checkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"postmeta wnd author\">\n<hgroup>\n<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2017\/02\/phony-baloney-the-9-fakest-fake-news-checkers\/\">PHONY BALONEY: THE 9 FAKEST FAKE-NEWS CHECKERS<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/hgroup>\n<\/header>\n<header class=\"postmeta wnd author\"><time class=\"updated\" datetime=\"2017-02-21T01:20:21+00:00\"><\/time><\/header>\n<div id=\"hentry\" class=\"entry-content wnd\">\n<div class=\"post-actions\">\n<div class=\"specific-social\">\n<div class=\"pw pw-widget ra1-pw-classicWidget ra1-pw_size_medium pw-layout-horizontal pw-counter-horizontal\"><strong>Sex blogger, gamer, Trump-haters among self-appointed experts in determining truth<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"pw pw-widget ra1-pw-classicWidget ra1-pw_size_medium pw-layout-horizontal pw-counter-horizontal\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pw pw-widget ra1-pw-classicWidget ra1-pw_size_medium pw-layout-horizontal pw-counter-horizontal\">image: http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2017\/02\/Trump-media-TW.jpg<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4146641\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2017\/02\/Trump-media-TW.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2017\/02\/Trump-media-TW.jpg 600x, http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2017\/02\/Trump-media-TW-300x150.jpg 300x, http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2017\/02\/Trump-media-TW-340x170.jpg 340x, http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2017\/02\/Trump-media-TW-126x63.jpg 126x, http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2017\/02\/Trump-media-TW-172x86.jpg 172x\" alt=\"Trump-media-TW\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/>Since President Donald Trump won the presidential election in November, there\u2019s been an explosion of \u201cfake-news\u201d checker sites, some cloaked behind a veil of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4146651\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2017\/02\/trust.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2017\/02\/trust.jpg 302x, http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2017\/02\/trust-300x260.jpg 300x, http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2017\/02\/trust-73x63.jpg 73x, http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2017\/02\/trust-99x86.jpg 99x\" alt=\"trust\" width=\"302\" height=\"262\" \/>In some cases, Americans really have fallen for \u201cfake news.\u201d Just days ago,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/16\/business\/20th-century-fox-fake-news-ad-campaign.html?_r=0&amp;mtrref=undefined&amp;gwh=739FD554A6B72E4BE1D3B77D00D77854&amp;gwt=pay\">20th Century Fox apologized for creating \u201cfake news\u201d sites<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 such as as the Houston Leader, the Salt Lake City Guardian, Sacramento Dispatch, the New York Morning Post and Indianapolis Gazette \u2013 as part of a promotional campaign for its psychological thriller, \u201cA Cure for Wellness.\u201dBut on the heels of\u00a0media hysteria over the trend, now it seems everyone claims to be a foremost expert on the topic of spotting \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrust us,\u201d they say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll help you navigate Facebook and filter out the fake news stories,\u201d they promise.<\/p>\n<p>But just who are these self-appointed gatekeepers who claim to be the ultimate arbiters of what is or is not \u201cfake news\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>WND found \u201cfact-checker\u201d sites run by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A gamer.<\/li>\n<li>A leftist, Trump-hating, feminist professor who specializes in \u201cfat studies.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A sex-and-fetish blogger.<\/li>\n<li>A health-industry worker.<\/li>\n<li>Organizations with billionaire\u00a0Democratic Party activists and donors.<\/li>\n<li>And another guy who went to extreme\u00a0lengths to conceal his identity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But most of\u00a0the self-appointed \u201cfact-checker\u201d sites had one thing in common:\u00a0President Trump \u2013 and the news sites that dare to give him a fair shake \u2013 are overwhelmingly their favorite targets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/sign-up-for-wnds-free-email-alerts\/\"><em>Like the reporting you see here? Sign up for free news alerts from WND.com, America\u2019s independent news network.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The websites often show an obvious bias against conservative-leaning outlets.\u00a0And many\u00a0fail to include clear explanations of the criteria they use for determining whether a news site is legitimate. Other \u201cexperts\u201d offer little or no biographical information establishing their qualifications for making judgments about journalism quality.<\/p>\n<p>WND has compiled the following list of the Top 9 \u201cfakest \u2018fake-news\u2019 checkers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHONY BALONEY: THE 9 FAKEST FAKE-NEWS CHECKERS Sex blogger, gamer, Trump-haters among self-appointed experts in determining truth image: http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2017\/02\/Trump-media-TW.jpg Since President Donald Trump won the presidential election in November, there\u2019s been an explosion of \u201cfake-news\u201d checker sites, some cloaked behind a veil of anonymity. In some cases, Americans really have fallen for \u201cfake news.\u201d Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14849,14850,14851,2779,570,1250,14852],"class_list":["post-22887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chelsea-schilling","tag-fact-checkers","tag-fact-checking","tag-fake-news","tag-news","tag-truth","tag-wnd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22889,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22887\/revisions\/22889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}