CNN has been caught red-handed feeding fake news into the public arena in order to trick independent news outlets into publishing it. The false report about CNN airing porn for 30 minutes on Thanksgiving day went viral on social media on Friday, with other major mainstream media outlets running the story without doing any fact checking. CNN have since admitted that they helped perpetuate the story in order to trick alternative media into republishing it so that they could then accuse them of publishing ‘fake news’. However, alternative media outlets and independents journalists did not report on the story due to the lack of evidence, meaning the CNN fake news story fell flat on its face. The original report, based on unsubstantiated Tweets, was published in The Independent newspaper in the UK. From there the story was repeated across other publications such as the Daily Mail, New York Post, Esquire and Mashable. Breitbart.com reports: Throughout all of this, the Breitbart News Network team was aggressively researching television video capturing services like TV Eyes and Critical Mention, among others, and scouring social media looking for evidence. We reached out to CNN, asking at least two different spokespersons for comment on the matter [...]
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