Had things gone as planned, lefty media would be leading the ‘fake news’ charge against the rest of the world of journalism.

Things, however, did not go as planned, and instead it is center-right outlets that have made a mockery of lefty, main-stream media (MSM).

Much of the credit for taking control of the fake news narrative belongs to Donald Trump who wrestled it away from a small non-profit organization funded largely by Google and Facebook.

In January the University of Nevada held a Tedx Talk. Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson discussed how liberal media and Democrat politicians tried to influence voters via the fake news narrative during the 2016 election, and how President Donald Trump successfully flipped it revealing lefty journalism to be the real purveyors of tabloid news stories.

According to Debra Heine at PJMedia, it wasn’t a new phenomenon, but Attkisson noticed that in 2016, there seemed to be a hardcore effort by the MSM to focus America’s attention on the idea of “fake news” in conservative media. After doing some research Attkisson found that the new spin idea started at a little non-profit called “First Draft,” which, she said, “appears to be about the first to use ‘fake news’ in its modern context.”

It is not surprising that big-tech fully supported the attacks on conservative media.

After more digging, Attkisson discovered that Google was one of the big donors behind First Draft’s “fake news” platform. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, was run by Eric Schmidt, a huge Hillary Clinton supporter.

Schmidt “offered himself up as a campaign adviser and became a top multi-million donor to it. His company funded First Draft around the start of the election cycle,” Attkisson said. “Not surprisingly, Hillary was soon to jump aboard the anti-fake news train and her surrogate David Brock of Media Matters privately told donors he was the one who convinced Facebook to join the effort.”

History will show that he whole thing backfired as President Donald Trump quickly and decisively took the narrative and ran with it to the chagrin of the left. Each time lefties cried fake news, Donald Trump returned fire until he’d completely taken over the term so that now, those who originally promoted it now run from it — including the Washington Post,” which she noted later backed away from using the term, said Attkisson. Vox, Salon, CNN, MSNBC, and hosts of others have followed WaPo’s lead.

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