Fox news = false news

I'm confused regarding your counting method. Did not Artermis's phrase get nearly 700,000 hits? How is 76,300 results orders of magnitude different even when combined with the million or so hits Dr. Adequate reported?Further, wasn't Artermis's phrase a fairly long one. What about minor variations (such as "all by yourself"). Edited by NoNukes, : change less to different

As Dr. A pointed out, the 53 million number was not based on a literal search for "faux news". How many hits would Artemis phrase generate if we removed the quotes.But at least I now know where you got your numbers.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Thanks for reminding me about Karl Rove's spin up on Fox New when the math folks on Fox announced that Obama had won. I just did a spit take with milk all over my notebook.

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Fox News on Tuesday removed from its site an inaccurate story that peddled a conspiracy theory about the murder of Democratic National Committee Staffer Seth Rich. The story had remained online for almost a week after CNN pointed out basic problems with its assertions.

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"On May 16, a story was posted on the Fox News website on the investigation into the 2016 murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich," a statement on the Fox News website said. "The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting. Upon appropriate review, the article was found not to meet those standards and has since been removed."

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But for months, right-wing media outlets have floated unproven theories that Rich was the person who provided Wikileaks with thousands of internal DNC emails, and suggested his death was retribution for the supposed leak. No real evidence has been provided to support such claims.

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And the sources for this nonsense?

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Last week, both Fox News and a Fox affiliate in Washington, WTTG-TV, published and aired reports, sourced to private investigator Rod Wheeler, that said evidence showed Rich had been in contact with Wikileaks before his death. Wheeler later told CNN he had no such evidence and that he had only heard of some information attributed to him in a FoxNews.com story from a Fox News reporter with whom he spoke.

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The FoxNews.com story on the case also cited a "federal source" who said the FBI had conducted a forensic analysis of Rich's computer and discovered thousands of emails with Wikileaks. But a law enforcement official told CNN that the FBI never had possession of Rich's laptop and did not conduct a forensic analysis of its contents.

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There was no source. Totally baseless. None of which kept sites like Breitbart and InfoWars from running BS stories on the topic.