Elected Politicians should be held to a higher standard than news sources. This is truly bizarre.
“I’m not a news source”: Texas official defends his Facebook fake news posts
“It’s like Fox News,” Sid Miller told an Austin radio station. “I report, you decide if it’s true or not”
TOPICS: BARACK OBAMA, DONALD TRUMP, FACEBOOK, FAKE NEWS, HILLARY CLINTON, SID MILLER, MEDIA NEWS, NEWS, POLITICS NEWS
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Responding to a Texas Tribune report, Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller defended posting fake news on his Facebook page — which has more than 340,000 likes and almost 330,000 followers — during a call-in interview with Austin radio station KUT News.
“I’m not a news organization,” Miller — who landed in hot water last spring after calling Hillary Clinton the c-word in a tweet — told journalist and radio host Nathan Bernier on Wednesday. “Y’all are holding me to the same standards as you would a news organization, and it’s just Facebook.”
“A lot of the things I post on Facebook are satire and comedy and I’m not a news source,” he continued. “We do try — when someone points out that something we put up is not accurate or it’s false, I take it down, but I think everyone just needs to realize that Facebook is not always a reliable source if you want factual news.”
Brendan Gauthier is assistant editor at Salon.
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arinnadia5 minutes ago
This is a perfect example of why liberals and democrats should never ever feel any guilt at calling Trump supporters exactly what they are.
They have no shame of their own.
They like to talk a lot about personal responsibility when they are deciding to bash people who need welfare , for the record most of them are elderly or disabled according to the statistics, but when it comes to taking responsibility for deceiving people this is how they respond. It’s on you if you are stupid enough to believe them.