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The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness warns about COVID Disinformation ,unless of course you are CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/NBC/ or PBS

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the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, a reader stated to obvious , “There still seems to be a significant amount of misunderstanding among the general public which, I believe, is mostly due to the way in which they consume their news. Most news comes by way of the political filter of either CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/NBC/PBS, which all hate Trump to varying degrees, and will present “the facts” in a way that hopes you vote for their guy, Biden, at the end of the year. Remember, we are in an election year, which has really ratcheted up the Trump Derangement Syndrome level. Otherwise, you watch Fox, which is really the only right-leaning TV news broadcaster, which does the opposite.”

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The Mainstream Media Has Only Itself to Blame for the ‘Fake News’ Epidemic

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By Stephen Miller|10:32 am, November 19, 2016

The mainstream media continues to freak out over the spread of “fake news” on Facebook and other social media platforms such as Twitter and reddit. Hillary Clinton’s late campaign thinks this is a problem.

The Democrat party seems to think people with Facebook accounts are to blame for Hillary’s decision to ignore crucial swing states in the final weeks of the campaign, that likely cost her the election.

But the media hasn’t bothered to ask why such sites gained traction. Our media has cultivated false news for years. Understandably, people stopped caring about the “journalistic ethics” the media claim to possess.

https://heatst.com/politics/the-mainstream-media-has-only-itself-to-blame-for-the-fake-news-epidemic/