Unic Press UK: The hashtag, #MediaLiesAgain and #FakeNews, are presently trending on Twitter, after the U.S. government denied/denounced the media reports of a plot to deploy 100,000 national guards to sniff out and deport illegal immigrants.
In his reaction on Twitter, the White House press secretary and communications director for U.S. president Donald Trump, Sean Spicer said that the stories on a so-called draft proposal to use the U.S. National Guard to round up illegal immigrants are “not true”, 100% false.
This is not true. DHS also confirms it is 100% false https://t.co/MFIJci7XaU
— Sean Spicer (@PressSec) February 17, 2017
The recent fake news ignited debate on the alarming degree of phoney reports traversing the gamut of the public space from several top media organization.
In this recent case, it appears the majority on Twitter took serious exceptions to this sort of fake report in the light of the fact that the purveyors of the fake news neither sought confirmation from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security nor contacted the office of the White House press secretary prior to publication. See reactions on Twitter:
@PrisonPlanet Why doesn't fckin @AP verify with the @WhiteHouse first? #medialiesagain #FAKENEWS pic.twitter.com/qngeIU86h7
— FPSONNY (@fpsonny) February 17, 2017
This AP National Guard story is the latest example of 100% fake news from the Media. Do you ever get tired of lying?#MediaLiesAgain pic.twitter.com/kfjGwbfhyf
— Tennessee (@TEN_GOP) February 17, 2017
Unsourced, unconfirmed, untrue.
This is what fake news looks like pic.twitter.com/4UlTnQyHiz
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) February 17, 2017
Amazing the @AP would even consider trashing the National Guard and cause mass hysteria around the nation just to "get at" Trump. Sad! 👎🏼 pic.twitter.com/SGMCGIXc4p
— Democrats for Trump (@YoungDems4Trump) February 17, 2017
Here's yet another one of CNNs lies. Out of her own mouth, Nancy Sinatra never said this. #MediaLiesAgain pic.twitter.com/642xrXef5P
— Steve Hirsch (@Stevenwhirsch99) February 17, 2017
During his news conference on Thursday, the 16th February 2017, the U.S. president Donald Trump pilloried the press, calling aspersions on him and his administration “hatred”. Trump said: “The press is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control.”
