The strange thing is that when I hit the back button to go back and block that site, it disappeared from the news feed like it was a special pop-up placement. (Maybe Google had purged it while I was reading it…)
eta: a right wing strategy of creating sites that “look” like news sources
The Right and the Russians have been doing that for years. coughBreitbartcough
I was thinking more of freedom of movement 4A, but “conservatives” seem fond of freedom of association 1A, at least for themselves. Odd this Tex-ass can’t conceive of the elderly or poor wanting to vote for his crappy ‘team’?
More far-right “news” in my feed yesterday: PragerU and the NRA!
Note that the NRA one doesn’t show a source at the bottom like every other news item. I can block Twitter (probably should, it’s not news), but I can’t block particular idiots on Twitter.
eta: And now I’m smelling rodents of unusual size. Yesterday I blocked PragerU. Today, I get this turd:
When I opened it, it was a Google search on his “book”. That has to be a paid ad placement in my newsfeed without any indication that it was sponsored. How’s that evil doing ya Google?
BuzzFeed says it has obtained a photograph of Granda meeting Trump at the university in Lynchburg, Virginia. (The university owns the copyright to the photo and did not give BuzzFeed permission to publish the image.)