Fake and Bake: Wikileaks Excitement

November 29, 2016

I love the chatter about fake news. I noted the story “Putting This Out There for Everyone’s Information (Is This for Real?) Before ItsNews 11-18-16… Wikileaks Is Gone.” According to the write up, a person named Jim Stone thinks that Wikileaks is a gone goose. The source cited above “felt drawn to put this [the story about Wikileaks as a disappeared organization] out there. To step away from the possibility that the story is bogus, the author of Kauilapele blog crawfishes:

Once more, I do not know for sure if this is true.

What’s the big reveal? Here you go:

The destruction of WikiLeaks was an unprecedented global effort.

There you go. Will accuracy and truthiness algorithms snag the Kauilapele item as possibly incorrect? Run those Bing, Google, and Yandex queries and decide for yourself.

Stephen E Arnold, November 29, 2016

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