Posts Tagged ‘Steve Bannon’

11
Nov
2020

Steve Bannon misinformation

categories: Digital literacy, Facebook, information literacy, information technology, media literacy

Steve Bannon Caught Running Facebook Misinformation Network from r/technology

Steve Bannon Caught Running a Network of Misinformation Pages on Facebook

https://gizmodo.com/steve-bannon-caught-running-a-network-of-misinformation-1845633004

the Bannon-related pages tended to publish content at the same time and linked to the Populist Press, an even more right-wing Drudge Report copycat trafficking in disproven election fraud claims.

“If 2016 was an accident,” Quran added, “2020 has been negligence.”

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more on fake news in this IMS blog
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11
Nov
2020

From Steve Bannon To Millennial Millie

categories: Digital literacy, information literacy, media literacy, social media, YouTube

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/10/933235773/from-steve-bannon-to-millennial-millie-facebook-youtube-struggle-with-live-video

nearly 300,000 others kept an eye on the YouTube channel of 29-year-old Millie Weaver, a former correspondent for the conspiracy theory website Infowars, who offered right-wing analysis to her followers in a live-stream that carried on for almost seven hours the day after the election.

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fake news
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=fake+news