Facebook’s Hyperpartisan Political-Media Machine (2016)
Here&#x27;s what I keep coming back to: when Dan Rather was hoodwinked into pushing a fake story about GWB&#x27;s minimal military service, he was fired.  When Keith Olbermann was similarly caught pushing a story he found and liked that turned out to be false, he was fired.  When Brian Williams made up a BS story about an RPG firing at his chopper, be was suspended for 6 months.<p>What happens when Breitbart or HuffPo or various YouTubers and bloggers get caught in a lie?  Nothing.  Nobody&#x27;s head is put in the noose.<p>News aggregators are to journalism what AliExpress is to shopping - they&#x27;ll give you what you wanted at the price you wanted, but piled high with lies and crappy quality, and you&#x27;ll never find the same company twice so their reputation doesn&#x27;t matter.