Back in July 2017, I had serious reservations about the amount of PR crap put out by IPro supporters, who claimed everything from ex-Shark Tank guy endorsements to the typical "we have a lawyer so it's not a scam" retorts.
Guess what: SEC says IPro is a 26 million dollar scam, and is suing its owner, not even two years later.
I know it's cliche, but...
I TOLD YOU SO!!!!!!!!
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Showing posts with label fake news. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 25, 2019
Friday, February 8, 2019
Scam Psychology: Antivax Alternative Facts redux
Antivaxers are well known for bogosities and inability to admit defeat. I've covered this previously but recently, some more bogus facts pushed by antivaxers simply chafed me wrong.
On 27-JAN-2019, in a bit of debate on flu vaccine, someone brought up the "Bill Gates is antivax" hoax. I quickly replied with a rebuttal citing.
Politifacts tracked down the source to a website called Yournewswire, who have NO citing at all. No name, no proof, nothing. Indeed, it is a fake news clickbait site.
Not that it matters to the claimant, who simply dismissed the rebuttal, so I called him out on it.
So he jumped over to Google and pasted the first link he found that supposedly proves it.
Which leads to this article:
At the bottom, the "source" is cited as Transcend Media Service, where a virtually identical article can be found, but the ORIGINAL source was revealed to be YourNewsWire... the very source debunked in the article I linked.
Indeed, YourNewsWire has a long history of publishing fake news clickbait later debunked by Snopes that now number in the dozens.
Sample headlines published by YourNewsWire includes:
"Katy Perry: 'Human Flesh is The Best Meat; Cannibalism Got A Bad Rap'"
"George Soros Orchestrates Devastating Plan to Kill 100000 Haitians"
and so on.
But none of this bull**** has any effect on the original poster.
Guess we have to consider him an antivax troll.
On 27-JAN-2019, in a bit of debate on flu vaccine, someone brought up the "Bill Gates is antivax" hoax. I quickly replied with a rebuttal citing.
Politifacts tracked down the source to a website called Yournewswire, who have NO citing at all. No name, no proof, nothing. Indeed, it is a fake news clickbait site.
Not that it matters to the claimant, who simply dismissed the rebuttal, so I called him out on it.
So he jumped over to Google and pasted the first link he found that supposedly proves it.
Which leads to this article:
At the bottom, the "source" is cited as Transcend Media Service, where a virtually identical article can be found, but the ORIGINAL source was revealed to be YourNewsWire... the very source debunked in the article I linked.
Indeed, YourNewsWire has a long history of publishing fake news clickbait later debunked by Snopes that now number in the dozens.
Sample headlines published by YourNewsWire includes:
"Katy Perry: 'Human Flesh is The Best Meat; Cannibalism Got A Bad Rap'"
"George Soros Orchestrates Devastating Plan to Kill 100000 Haitians"
and so on.
But none of this bull**** has any effect on the original poster.
Guess we have to consider him an antivax troll.
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