Breaking News Or Fake News?
It didn't take long after the initial reports for the hashtag #RacistHunter and #RacistBiden to trend on social media, despite the fact that only The Daily Mail had access to the alleged texts and no other news outlets came forward to corroborate the reports. All of the subsequent news stories that were posted referenced the original reporting by The Daily Mail, but the "news" still circulated on social platforms.
There should be a concern that this story took on a life of its own on social media without confirmation that the allegations are true. According to technology analyst Rob Enderle of the Enderle group this is "particularly true, given this would have been golden during the election, so the likelihood this is fake is unusually high in this case."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersu...h=3ca89df63fe7
I personally dont believe anything in that laptop that was mysteriously left with that random trump supporting laptop guy at his strip mall shop then given to Rudy Guilliani is real.
Im sure the Tucker Carlsons of the world will run with this unverified feeding to tabloid Daily News.
This is how fake news works. Something is leaked to a tabloid publisher, then the Russia and Chinese click farms boost the hashtags and then the Fox News of the world report on what the tabloid reported. Not verifiying the accuracy of the story but just reporting on what the tabloid reported.
That text conversations seems to be written by a matt gaetz type broski.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-ne...op-story-first
Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani apparently first approached Fox News with the trove of emails he claims came from Hunter Biden’s laptop, but the network passed on the story over credibility concerns, per a report by Mediaite. According to Mediaite’s sources, “the lack of authentication of Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop, combined with established concerns about Giuliani as a reliable source and his desire for unvetted publication, led the network’s news division to pass.” The network’s so-called Brain Room, for its part, has warned Fox News hosts that Giuliani has a reputation for “amplifying disinformation.”
Giuliani eventually went to Fox News’ sister publication the New York Post to run a story on the largely unverified emails and Giuliani’s assertion that they were pulled from a laptop that Hunter Biden left at a Delaware computer repair shop. The shop owner, meanwhile, has given conflicting accounts on how the laptop supposedly came into his possession.
The New York Times reported on Sunday that the Post had a hard time convincing reporters to add their bylines to the email story, with the reporter who did the bulk of the writing outright refusing to be attached to the story. One of the bylines on the report, who was barely involved in the story, only found out her name was added after publication. While Fox News may have initially passed on the story, the network’s opinion hosts have devoted hours of coverage to promoting and disseminating the Post’s reporting, even as some of the channel’s “hard news” anchors label the story “sketchy” and “completely unverified.”