So last week, Washington Post revealed its hand. It also revealed a problem - how mind-bendingly easy it is to spread seemingly difficult to manufacture fake stories nationwide.

Conservative Lobbyist, Jacob Wohl staged a fake FBI raid. Using 7 paid actors and five or six high quality photos, he spread the viral clickbait that Jack Burkman had been arrested by the FBI overnight.

Within hours, Washington Post created a story citing "FBI SOURCES" that this had actually happened, all based on tips given to them by anonymous accounts created by Jacob Wohl.



After one of the paid actors told Washington Post that the raid was fake, Washington Post REFUSED TO REDACT the story, instead they STEALTH EDITED the story. And they refused to edit the story before one of the paid actors came forward.

https://twitter.com/abeaujon/status/1305570155947327491

This is a national embarrassment. This is the same level of proof that Washinton Post used to publish "Trump calls military losers", "Trump calls foreign nations s***hole countries", and even "Russia collusion".

Twitter has suspended the anonymous twitter account that Wohl used to spread the tips - to hide their tracks no doubt, only hyperlinks remain.

Jacob Wohl gave his take "If the media hears something they like, they will make a story about it. Even if there is zero evidence."

I see pics of the story but nowhere are FBI sources cited. Am I missing something, or did you lie?



How exactly are people who appear to be FBI agents raiding a house not evidence that the FBI is raiding a house? Especially considering we already knew(as the WaPo story says) they are being investigated for orchestrating smears on Mueller. And I suppose Wohl is acknowledging the statements by him and Burkman are completely worthless because they have zero credibility as people. Nice self-own there.

Not to mention the story has a quote from the FBI saying they can't confirm it at this time.

This is so dopey... only people with Media Derangement Syndrome actually think this is damning for WaPo.

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Happy you made this thread though... now I have a place to highlight the ridiculousness of Trump cult media when I see it.

This post was edited by IceMage on Sep 21 2020 06:14pm

I remember the Washington post story a while back about the "numbers of kids in cages under president trump"

When it was proven they were looking at Obama era numbers did they just change the names accused of the atrocity? Of course not. They pulled the story altogether

ayup

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/02/15/biden-finally-admits-he-and-obama-put-kids-in-cages-but-only-to-keep-them-safe-n381547

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/obama-administration-placed-children-with-human-traffickers-report-says/2016/01/28/39465050-c542-11e5-9693-933a4d31bcc8_story.html

wapo used to print the truth now they fall for pranks done by jacob wohl of all people and icepeon the anti-American bottom-feeder still stumps for them lmfao, pathetic..

Emmy’s more political than ever, lowest ratings in recorded history.

https://people.com/tv/jimmy-kimmel-jokes-low-emmy-ratings/

Don't break an arm jerking eachother off guys.

Never watched in my life, just went on website though, I would say I don't know 90% of the shows and out of the shows Ozarks is the only thing iv ever seen (which is very good). Watched S1 of Stranger Things but got bored.

daytime television is dead for the most part, and prime time is dying along with it.

add that to people cutting the cord, streaming shows illegally, or just watching next day coverage which kills ratings.

but to an ideologue like endless its proof liberal hollywood caused the ratings drop..... that's MAYBE 5% of what's going on here.

Youre implying that liberalism isnt most of what killed TV in the first place.