Trump holds a glass of water before he delivers the State of the Union address as Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan look on in the chamber of the House of Representatives on January 30, 2018, in Washington, D.C.
There's extreme Republicans clapping or standing ovationįor the "extreme" version, participants were required to also drink whenever the word "America" was said.The regular version dictated that participants take a sip of their drink when: The website Drink When, which creates drinking games for various television events and movies, established two different versions of the game. Rules for the various games ranged from drinking when he said specific phrases or words to who showed up on camera during the speech.
While Trump has repeatedly said that he does not partake in alcoholic beverages on a regular basis, several websites offered guidelines for viewers of his speech who want to boost their blood alcohol content. His study, authored before the Trump presidency, established a set of best practices after determining that journalists and media organisations inadvertently promoted misinformation by attempting to chase it – which, in the months that followed, would dominate daily news cycles.President Donald Trump's State of the Union address is expected to draw viewers from across the country and for those who like to pair their politics with a nice wine or beer, there's a drinking game for that. Mr Silverman’s 2015 study (“ Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content”) determined that “news websites dedicate far more time and resources to propagating questionable and often false claims than they do working to verify and/or debunk viral content and online rumors.”
“If you’re not telling me, ‘This is the last day to vote, this is where you can do it, this is how you can do it,’ and who said that, then I’m still as confused as I was before,” she said. “There are going to be so many confusing, competing ideas, and on top of that, there will be people intentionally spreading lies,” Kristy Roschke, a journalism professor at Arizona State University and managing director of News/Co Lab, which specialises in media literacy. Media analysts are bracing for a deluge of misleading information in the weeks leading up to 2020 election, and social media platforms are under pressure to scrub election-related misinformation, fearing a scenario in which the president prematurely declares victory, among others. The speed and volume of the news and the spread of misinformation online has risen to an overwhelming concern for nearly three-quarters of Americans, who want stronger protections against false information or hateful expression online, according to the Gallup-Knight survey. The top 10 websites spreading health misinformation had nearly four times as many views as health content from health officials, including the World Health Organisation and the Centres and Prevention, Avaaz found. Within the last year, health misinformation spanning at least five countries generated an estimated 3.8 billion views on Facebook, peaking in April 2020, the deadliest month in the US during the Covid-19 crisis, during which websites that spread misinformation saw roughly 460 million views on Facebook alone, according to data collected by global activism nonprofit organisation Avaaz. They're very, very dishonest people, but I think it's just something we're going to have to live with.” I could name them, but I won't bother, but you have a few sitting right in front of us. “But I will tell you, some of the media outlets that I deal with are fake news more so than anybody. “You know, I've been hearing more and more about a thing called fake news and they're talking about people that go and say all sorts of things,” then-president-elect Trump said. Mr Trump repeated the phrase several more times throughout the press conference, adding that BuzzFeed is a “failing pile of garbage” and attacking CNN for doing “out of their way to build it up.” CNN published a verified report revealing that a synopsis of the memos had been included in materials president to the president-elect and then-president Barack Obama.ĬNN’s Jim Acosta repeatedly asked the president-elect to answer any questions about it before Trump fired back at him: “You’re fake news.” Moments later, Mike Pence condemned the “irresponsible decision of a few news organizations to run with a false and unsubstantiated report, when most news organizations resisted the temptation to propagate this fake news.”