Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him

While I strongly disagree with what he did, the level of fake news and conspiracy theories hitting the front page has been toxic and out of control this year.

Everyone has been accusing of Facebook and twitter for spreading fake news while reddit has also been absolute shit at it.

Atleast on reddit someone reading the comments on there (usually the top) will be able to figureout that the story is fake.

Not on /r/The_Donald.

Information can be a weapon, and all available avenues are going to be used to establish that fact.

Exactly who gets to decide if news if fake?

There's a lot of theories going around because there's quite a lot of circumstantial evidence. Just because there's no proof does not automatically make it a conspiracy theory.

So what you're saying is maybe Hillary Clinton did have an FBI agent murdered, and maybe Putin and the Dalai Lama really did meet up to talk about how Clinton and Obama started ISIS, a few days after the Pope endorsed Trump.

Really getting sick of people unironically regurgitating the "fake news" meme, just because the mainstream media pushed it. https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=fake%20news

I'm not saying any of those things. I'm also not rushing to dismiss them as fake either though.

I would like to explore the frontiers of what you're willing not to dismiss out of hand. Can I interest you in a story about a secret blood cult John Podesta runs? How about the Lizard People?

All I know is that John Podesta and his brother were invited to a spirit cooking dinner [1]. I haven't seen any evidence they attended but it was an interesting email that was uncovered.

I don't believe lizard people are real.

[1] https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15893

One of the most egregious examples of fake news is the story from the nonexistent news organization, The Denver Guardian, about an FBI agent involved in the Clinton investigation being found dead in a suspected murder suicide. This article was posted on November 5, 2016. It is unequivocally fake news. The creator of the fake article, is the CEO of a company named Disinfomedia.

There is no other side to this story. There is no partisan tilt that cherry picks facts to construct a narrative. It is entirely fabricated, and crafted specifically to disinform its audience.

http://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/23/the-man-behind-denver-g...

I think your cast of 'fake news' may be way too narrow.

Remember the WMDs? The babies thrown out of the humidi-cribs? Jessica Lynch? This goes back through all news. Dan Rather's comment on air after seeing the classified Zapruder film,"went forward with considerable violence"? A complete lie. All news contains significant spin. And most mainstream news is completely fake.

No, what they mean now when they say "fake news" is "news that disagrees with my political leaning".

Wow. What a shitty response. If people responded to your comments with that kind of non-sequitur you'd be all over them like a rash. But then you dole our rubbish like this.

Here's some "fake news" for you, from a news site listed on the fake news list:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-18/5-times-when-mainst...

A ZeroHedge story about fakenews literally killing people. It's like we're reading the thread directly from a screenplay.

See, this is the kind of dumb crap that isn't news.

In less than 2 minutes of googling and reading you can find a comprehensive answer to all your questions, but instead you put forward a leading statement like "it was an interesting email that was uncovered."

It genuinely was not. It's not interesting, it's mundane.

You must be a shill for Big Lizard.