'Allahu akbar'-chanting mob sets alight Germany's oldest church? Shocking story, if it were true.

[DonViejo]

By Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner January 6 at 5:21 PM

BERLIN — It was every God-fearing Christian’s worst nightmare about Muslim refugees. “Revealed,” the Breitbart News headline screamed, “1,000-Man Mob Attack Police, Set Germany’s Oldest Church Alight on New Year’s Eve.”

The only problem: Police say that’s not what happened that night in the western city of ­Dortmund.

The Breitbart report has triggered a backlash in Germany, igniting fresh concerns over the manipulation of information and the societal cost of revenue-generating clickbait.

The report comes amid a rash of misleading rumors and social-media claims about refugees in the aftermath of the recent Berlin Christmas market attack, including " target="_blank">one missive falsely linking a refugee who once took a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to a holiday season assault on a homeless man.

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[ck4829]

1. K&R. It's time to start treating this phenomenon as a disease

Because that is what it is.

There is a whole systemic process here going on, like a failure on every level of memory, cognition, and perception.

The problem isn't fake news itself either, it's the following:
* Knowing it's false and still creating it
* Person reads it and accepts it without question
* Disseminating it while not looking for corroborating stories
* Ignoring any opinions or stories that might poke holes in it
* Story gets disproved and it does not damage the credibility of the person/organization who pushed the story and the person who read it will just say people who don't believe in the story are snowflakes or something

[NutmegYankee]

2. It's modern day propaganda.

We are about to enter a new Nazi era.

[WhiteTara]

3. I think we've already entered, Nutmeg!

[NutmegYankee]

4. It gets real in 13 days.

[WhiteTara]

5. This is really a tough go.

I've lived through Nixon, Raygun, Bush and Bush; I hope I'll survive Drumpf, but it's going to be scary.