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[SanAndreasX]

the-pi-guy said:

LegitHyperbole said:

Oh my god. I'm so it's the equivalent to the Sun or the Mirror here in Ireland/UK. No wonder people are calling me out, it sounded so professional and I swear I had heard this newspaper held in high regards before. 

Well dammit. Misinformation is a part of life on the Internet now that we are in the AI age and it's only going to get worse before it gets so bad governments will have to step in. Might aswell use this ad training to combat the wave that's about to come over the next few years. 

That said, story still seems legit regardless if the paper is not. 

I feel like there's an issue that Washington Post and New York Times, basically have tabloid alternatives (Washington Times and New York Post), the former are held in very high regard as newspapers. 

There are a good range of articles from New York Post, ranging from obvious nonsense to a lot of right wing stories where a lot of the stuff is true, but told in a misleading way to drive right wing views.

Although apparently they used to be held in higher regard, until they were bought by Murdoch's News Corp, and became a bad tabloid newspaper.

They are actually the one of the oldest major newspapers in the United States, predating the Times by 50 years.  The NY Post was founded by Alexander Hamilton, one of tge Founding Fathers. However, its shift to a tabloid format began under Cyrus Curtis and Dorothy Schiff. Murdoch simply put the tabloid aspect on steroids when he bought the paper from Schiff and turned it into the American version of The Sun.