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A website claiming to be a local San Francisco news outlet named KBSF-TV published a baseless claim on Monday alleging that Vice President Kamala Harris was involved in a June 2011 hit-and-run incident that left a 13-year-old girl paralyzed. Harris was California's attorney general at the time, and has been a longtime Bay Area resident.

Analysis of the article and site indicate the story is false; public records and news reports show no evidence of the hit-and-run incident. The San Francisco Police Department told CBS News that they could not find records of the incident. A CBS News analysis of a video that accompanied the article found it contained several photos from other unrelated news stories. 

Despite this, the story spread widely on social media before the site disappeared. Posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, that featured the article and video amassed more than 7 million views, and the story was also shared on Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. Pro-Russian channels on Telegram, the popular messaging app European officials are investigating for alleged criminal activity on the platform, also shared the story and video.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yes?

This is called fake news, it’s been an issue in politics globally for a few years now. How is this one particular instance of it more newsworthy than any other?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait, you mean actual fake news, and not the news outlets Trump just calls fake news regularly?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, this is literally real fake news.

Fake news or information disorder is false or misleading information (misinformation, including disinformationpropaganda, and hoaxes) presented as news. Fake news often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity, or making money through advertising revenue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, it's important to realize that the term "fake news" used by Trump was in Nazi Germany style: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_press

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“Fake News” was an Alt-Right Op that the left swallowed Hook, Line, and Sinker.

  1. Call everything you don’t like “Fake News”
  2. Intentionally put out an obviously false story. In this case it was “The Bowling Green Massacre”
  3. Watch as your enemies do your work for you, thinking they “gotcha” and start using the term “fake news” helping you delegitimization all news sources, even legitimate ones.
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Yeah okay 👌

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In this case it was “The Bowling Green Massacre”

Do you know what year it is? Who the president is? Or what you're posting about?