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Propaganda Debunking

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Maraya1969

(23,177 posts)
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 11:26 AM Dec 2016

I can't find a website that will debunk this stupid claim that is filling up Google [View all]

My fundamentalist Christian brother sent me a mass email. Here are just 2 of the claims:

There are 3,141 counties in the United States.
Trump won 3,084 of them.
Clinton won 57.

I know this is bullshit but guess what happens when I put it in Google?

https://www.google.com/search?q=fact+check+Trump+won+3%2C084+of+them.+Clinton+won+57.&oq=fact+check+Trump+won+3%2C084+of+them.+Clinton+won+57.&aqs=chrome..69i57.9557j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I checked snopes.com - Nothing
I put in "fact check" and "Hoax" before pasting various combinations of words about it - Nothing

I saw somewhere that she won 500 counties but I cannot find it again!


So I actually went to 4 states and counted the counties. CA, NJ, NY and IL. My total was: +65 Hillary

WHY is there no sites up countering this bullshit? The Democratic party needs to get their ass in gear and have a group dedicated to taking down these sites or at least getting up sites that debunk them and getting them up to the top, or even the first frigging page of Google!



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