It's going to take a while.
I ran into the Fake Sport News consumer last night at the cigar lounge.
I told him that the ESPN website had been mocked going back three years, and gave him my cell phone to read the article I posted in this forum.
He didn't want to believe it, handed back my phone after skimming the article and said Tom Brady for a fact tested positive for illegal drugs.
I reminded him that his fake article claimed a six month suspension this season, and that didn't happen because Brady was still playing football, no difference he was digging in further, taking a defensive stance.
Half lie? Brady didn't play 4-games in 2015 (
deflategate).
https://www.si.com/nfl/2016/04/25/new-england-patriots-deflategate-tom-brady-suspension-reinstated
So I let things cool down, then have him read the
Dale Earnhardt Jr. to Retire From Racing article I posted earlier in this thread.
He reads it a little more intently than the last one, then hands me back the phone without a comment - total silence.
I planted a seed, going to take time to grow roots.
This is why getting fake news out of someone's head is so difficult, it feeds on our preconceived biases.
This guy doesn't like Tom Brady, fair enough, I have no problem with that. He mentioned the Halloween candy thing as another reason to hate Brady the first time we talked about this.
Why Gisele Bundchen Gave Away Her Kids' Halloween Candy
Why Gisele Bundchen Gave Away Her Kids' Halloween Candy - ABC News
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“We don’t really have that kind of sugar in our house,” Bundchen told the magazine. “I let them try one [piece], but they really only had one bite and then they didn’t want it anymore. So I told them if they didn’t like it, I was going to give it away to other kids and they actually let me give their candy away."
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I know ABC was spoofed before, in fact I'm a bit nervous even to post a link from them a year after finding out. Damage is done, be wary of fake ESPN articles you see as click bait.
The Real News About Fake News - ABC News
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A study from Stanford University released recently showed that more than 80 percent of middle school students couldn’t tell the difference between a news story and sponsored content on a popular website. And only one in four high school students could identify a fake Twitter account as lacking a blue checkmark, a signal to users that an account is legitimate.
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