Misleading stories about New Zealand’s gun buyback have gone viral across gun lobby groups and conservative media in North America. Marc Daalder reports on the spread of what one expert has categorised as "fake news".
yeah, that sounds about right. honestly i don't know that there's a time where gun lobbying groups and conservative media aren't spreading fake or misrepresentative news stories about guns and how...
yeah, that sounds about right. honestly i don't know that there's a time where gun lobbying groups and conservative media aren't spreading fake or misrepresentative news stories about guns and how the evil liberals around the world want to take them like they want to take your hamburgers, thereby creating socialism. that whole nexus of the misinformation networks that exist within the right even predate trump by years (remember the jade helm hysteria, y'all?) if not decades.
yeah, that sounds about right. honestly i don't know that there's a time where gun lobbying groups and conservative media aren't spreading fake or misrepresentative news stories about guns and how the evil liberals around the world want to take them like they want to take your hamburgers, thereby creating socialism. that whole nexus of the misinformation networks that exist within the right even predate trump by years (remember the jade helm hysteria, y'all?) if not decades.
Relevant article from Vox:
How the NRA resurrected the Second Amendment - Here’s the story of how America’s gun politics got so broken.