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Fake News (Biased news (The Washington Post (The Washington Post published…
Fake News
Biased news
The Washington Post
The Washington Post published an article relating to the impeachment hearings for President Trump and was titled “Fact-checking the opening day of the Trump impeachment hearings.” However, the article failed to look into any comments made by Democrats. 
CNN
CNN is known to be biased toward liberals through their story selection and political affiliation. One example of this was when they specifically asked the Democratic National Committee about what questions to ask Trump in an interview.
Wikapedia
Wikipedia was created to help salvage journalistic integrity, however, when Donald Trump became president it instead became a biased editing community. One example of this was when a UC Berkeley instructor, Michel Gelobter, launched a course called “environmental justice.” He encouraged his students to edit or create biased Wikipedia articles on the things that were expected to unfold if he was to be elected.
ABC, CBS, and NBC
These three channels, from (9/24 - 11/5), coverage of Trump was 96% negative. When most channels are only reporting the bad aspects to Trump’s presidency this shows the bias that these channels have towards him.
Chris Hadfield, a beloved Astronaut, took a photo with a bad of Easter eggs, however, the photo was edited to appear to have marijuana inside the bag.
A photo of a little boy went viral when it was posted saying he was sleeping next to his deceased parents grave in Syria. This photo turned out to be completely staged and the boy know the photographer was photographing him and the graves did not belong to his parents.
When the hashtag #10yearchallenge went viral many photoshopped photos began swirling about social media. This photo was warning people about the impact we have on this earth and deforestation. However, it turned out this photo was completely fake and edited to appear differently.
This photo was photoshopped to show an archaeologist finding a huge skeleton that could have belonged to giants. This photo ended up being completely fake.
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Social Media
In October, a story was released by Christian Times Newspaper that “tens of thousands” of fraudulent ballots for Clinton were uncovered in a warehouse in Ohio. This story went viral and was shared with over 6 million people, however, this story turned out to be completely false.
In April, a story began spreading that the NBA canceled a game in North Carolina in protest of the anti gay bathroom bill. It was published on a fake site that was posing as ABC News. the fake story was shared with over 2.4 million people on social media, specifically Facebook.
A website that was created to look just the New York Times released an article claiming that Elizabeth Warren was endorsing Bernie Sanders for president. This was shared with over 700,000 people, although it was completely fake.
In November of 2015, a story was released, claiming that Milwaukee County Sheriff, David A. Clarke, had been a member of the KKK. The story was published by a site called the National Report and ended up being fake. The story was shared with more than 500,000 people.