Propaganda Debunking
Related: About this forumI can't find a website that will debunk this stupid claim that is filling up Google
My fundamentalist Christian brother sent me a mass email. Here are just 2 of the claims:
There are 3,141 counties in the United States.
Trump won 3,084 of them.
Clinton won 57.
I know this is bullshit but guess what happens when I put it in Google?
https://www.google.com/search?q=fact+check+Trump+won+3%2C084+of+them.+Clinton+won+57.&oq=fact+check+Trump+won+3%2C084+of+them.+Clinton+won+57.&aqs=chrome..69i57.9557j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I checked snopes.com - Nothing
I put in "fact check" and "Hoax" before pasting various combinations of words about it - Nothing
I saw somewhere that she won 500 counties but I cannot find it again!
So I actually went to 4 states and counted the counties. CA, NJ, NY and IL. My total was: +65 Hillary
WHY is there no sites up countering this bullshit? The Democratic party needs to get their ass in gear and have a group dedicated to taking down these sites or at least getting up sites that debunk them and getting them up to the top, or even the first frigging page of Google!
Skinner
(63,645 posts)Maraya1969
(23,025 posts)were fake. If there are so many websites still spewing these things then something is still very wrong and it will affect upcoming elections
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)marybourg
(13,215 posts)every meme that dozens of Putinpuppets can think up? Tell your brother: "Whatever" and move on to something productive.
subterranean
(3,544 posts)And 2.5 million more people voted for Hillary Clinton.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Maraya1969
(23,025 posts)Algernon Moncrieff
(5,958 posts)People here decried the Obama victories, arguing similarly about the map. I had to point out the following "See those three little blue squares at the bottom of Florida on the right? Those are Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties. Those three counties have as many people as North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska combined.
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