Proclivities wrote: 
No grave so shallow as the ones where lies lie buried...

Not sure I stumbled across this - a robo-voiced, YouTube channel which apparently posts nothing but fraudulent celebrity obituary videos.

Newsmax

 oldviolin wrote: 
Yer can't trust dem Judge no more. 

 Manbird wrote: 
Tell it to the judge!

 Lazy8 wrote:

Them dang road agents got aholt of a strong box with my case of mixed flavour Izzes on the Butterfield Overland last week. It gettin worse on all the trails!

 R_P wrote:
My copy of the NYT is still on the mule train, along with my blasting caps and whiskey. Expect it any day now, less'n there's trouble with the highwaymen.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
I read that yesterday. How on Earth did that slip by our Mr. Lazy and not receive a state-wide debunking?  

Where Facts Were No Match for Fear

Civic boosters in central Montana hoped for some federal money to promote tourism. A disinformation campaign got in the way.

Ms. Grulkowski had just heard about a years-in-the-making effort to designate her corner of central Montana a national heritage area, celebrating its role in the story of the American West. A small pot of federal matching money was there for the taking, to help draw more visitors and preserve underfunded local tourist attractions.

Ms. Grulkowski set about blowing up that effort with everything she had.

She collected addresses from a list of voters and spent $1,300 sending a packet denouncing the proposed heritage area to 1,498 farmers and ranchers. She told them the designation would forbid landowners to build sheds, drill wells or use fertilizers and pesticides. It would alter water rights, give tourists access to private property, create a new taxation district and prohibit new septic systems and burials on private land, she said.

None of this was true.

Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming
Back-alley firms meddle in elections and promote falsehoods on behalf of clients who can claim deniability, escalating our era of unreality.

In May, several French and German social media influencers received a strange proposal.

A London-based public relations agency wanted to pay them to promote messages on behalf of a client. A polished three-page document detailed what to say and on which platforms to say it.

But it asked the influencers to push not beauty products or vacation packages, as is typical, but falsehoods tarring Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine. Stranger still, the agency, Fazze, claimed a London address where there is no evidence any such company exists.

Some recipients posted screenshots of the offer. Exposed, Fazze scrubbed its social media accounts. That same week, Brazilian and Indian influencers posted videos echoing Fazze’s script to hundreds of thousands of viewers.

The scheme appears to be part of a secretive industry that security analysts and American officials say is exploding in scale: disinformation for hire. (...)

 KarmaKarma wrote:
 



   


Seriously: you gotta look into getting back to writing comedy, no matter how badly you failed the first time. 

 klown-car wrote:
 
I'm sorry you are unable to process facts vs propaganda.

 KarmaKarma wrote:

 

Oh Grandpa Simpson, you haven't met KrayKray have you?

There's something laughable and pathetic about a paid shill whining about fakery. 

Don't go changin', @$$h@^.

Trump told them to “find fraud.” Fake. Jussie Smollett. Fake. Covington. Fake. Hands up, don’t shoot. Fake. Jacob Blake was unarmed. Fake. Alfa bank. Fake. Cohen in Prague. Fake. Don Jr Wikileaks. Fake. Michael Avenatti. Holy fake. Russia dossier. Ffffffucking fake.

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 

...and once again it's porn that's the driving force behind the tech.

Slick Tom Cruise Deepfakes Signal That Near Flawless Forgeries May Be Here

Ferenginar
Trump Orders Space Force to Discover Other Planets with Courts

U.S. govt-linked PR firm ran fake news networks for right-wing Latin American regimes

 Red_Dragon wrote: 

deep fake from MIT