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From: Wayne Harris via "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" <info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fake-news in Gnus?
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 18:47:07 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <861r6mfp2c.fsf@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2fb01fdc-f381-9e54-fec9-2a9b5b69b7c4@gmx.com>

Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:

> Wayne Harris via info-gnus-english wrote:
>> Emanuel Berg via info-gnus-english <info-gnus-english@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Wayne Harris via info-gnus-english wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>     <incal> o/ is there support in Gnus for fake news? a fake
>>>>>>>             news client if you will. fake client LOL. ? TIA
>>>>>> I don't get it. :-)
>>>>> Check out Alex Jones (Prison PLanet and Infowars)
>>>> I ended up on what seems to be Prison Planet website.  I searched for
>>>> "fake news" and I got something involving trump, but the video duration
>>>> was almost 3 hours.
>>>>
>>>> I still don't get it. :-)
>>> Fake news is when you post news in a style and layout and
>>> everything so it looks and reads like news, but the actual
>>> news article is fabricated with a political agenda and facts
>>> may not be true, it can be to make a specific person look bad
>>> but it can also be with the purpose to make media look bad, to
>>> have people confused so they loose faith in media and
>>> politicians and the whole society, in general.
>> Lol.  I do know the meaning of ``fake news''.  What I don't know is the
>> apparent joke written by <incal>, which I suppose is you, and Gnus.  And
>> couldn't get at all the connection with Alex Jones. :-) I must be really
>> slow.
>>
> Fake Gnus are like stuffed donkeys.

<sarcasm>Oh, lol, that helps a lot!</sarcasm> :-)



      reply	other threads:[~2021-08-21 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-29 23:19 Emanuel Berg via info-gnus-english
2021-05-01 13:26 ` Wayne Harris via info-gnus-english
2021-05-01 22:49   ` William Henderson
2021-05-04 21:09     ` Wayne Harris via info-gnus-english
2021-05-04 21:28       ` Emanuel Berg via info-gnus-english
2021-05-07 20:12         ` Wayne Harris via info-gnus-english
2021-06-04 17:42           ` Richmond
2021-08-21 21:47             ` Wayne Harris via Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader (in English) [this message]

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