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Fake news is clearly used ironically. The news organizations that created the term where themselves found to be colluding with political parties to push their agendas. They did it to Bernie. Clickbait existed long before these elections, and Hillary supporters where just as much targets to false narratives as Trumps.
The motivation behind EPA officials being ordered to take down a page on climate change is based on a false narrative. The order given to EPA officials are standard practice during a presidential transition. The idea that this was a direct attack against science by the Trump administration was false.
You want to talk about clickbait, which story do you think got more impressions? Scientists scared by Trump claiming he's attacking science? Or standard practice during a presidential transition?
Watching the past year of news is one of many reasons to be skeptical of stories published in any news organization.
- Which sections of the agency website were removed in the last transition?lowimpakt
- It's not a false narrative. Trump says climate change is a hoax. Scott Pruitt also a climate skeptic and wants to dismantle a lot of what the EPA does.yuekit
- So scientists are right to be afraid that he's attacking science. You can't pretend people are blowing it out of proportion when Trump himself has taken theyuekit
- most extreme view on this.yuekit