re: Poll: 42% of Republicans Believe Accurate – But Negative – Stories Qualify as Fake News

I am one of the 42%.

Most fake news stories aren’t flat-out lies. They are written or framed in an extremely biased matter that makes them no more than propaganda. For instance, the Diet Coke story - probably not false but clearly fake news.

Many times the headline in the story or tag line has a question mark in the end. This immediately means fake news to me - most likely it is a wild theory that someone has come up with that is portrayed and framed as fact.


Another example would be the headline that states “bipartisan opposition” which is really just McCain and a bunch of Dems.

Granted - some are completely bogus and made-up - like the edited koi video or the Wikileaks heads up or the staging of interviews.