Breitbart's Latest Fake News Story

[InTheLight]

German media and politicians have warned against an election-year spike in fake news after the rightwing website Breitbart claimed a mob chanting “Allahu Akbar” had set fire to a church in the city of Dortmund on New Year’s Eve.

After the report by the US site was widely shared on social media, the city’s police clarified that no “extraordinary or spectacular” incidents had marred the festivities.

The local newspaper, Ruhr Nachrichten, said elements of its online reporting on New Year’s Eve had been distorted by Breitbart to produce “fake news, hate and propaganda”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ting-fire-to-dortmund-church?CMP=share_btn_tw



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[TCassidy]

Well, sort of. Fireworks were shot toward the church with did start a fire, but on netting covering scaffolding on the church and not the church roof itself, although from the ground it did appear the roof was on fire. But the roof was not on fire and the really big item of propaganda is that the church is not Germany’s oldest.

Oh, well, that and the 1000 Muslims.