Robinson Admits Spreading ‘Fake News'

[spathiphyllum]

So now, he's a proven liar. Well this is the guy that keeps on giving aint it.

https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/29/tommy-robinson-admits-spreading-fake-news-about-muslims-school-gangs-8192842/?ito=social&fbclid=IwAR0ciJZ_lhnfOHcRPMHUyQVO0y6qddTGN91nMmvwHTF6pFa2TvuGgwS3IDg

[spathiphyllum]

On the flip sides

https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/28/sister-of-syrian-refugee-waterboarded-by-bullies-is-also-attacked-at-school-8188542/?ito=social&fbclid=IwAR0zKfbxoe3UFjF-YHKbrDcmfdVnHqSl6zdRC-I0D3YhidPJIWRzwaIGFUk

[naomi24]

//So now, he's a proven liar.//

No. Liars are aware they’re telling lies. He wasn’t aware that he was being set up by liars – so no, he wasn’t lying. He was inadvertently spreading fake news – which he’s freely admitted.

[spathiphyllum]

just as damaging. This loony needs to stop jumping the gun. If this is a lie, then how many other stories that he's shouted from the hill tops are also tosh?

[ichkeria]

I’d call him a propagandist. If he sees something that fits his agenda he’ll regurgitate it without bothering and to hell with the devastating consequences. Reminds me a bit of Donald Trump’s retweeting of EDL stuff in twitter.

[dannyk13]

//The far-right activist also claimed the 15-year-old Syrian refugee, who has been named as Jamal, allegedly ‘attacked a white girl’.//
More fake news.

[Khandro]

It is itself, 'fake news' to imply that Robinson had consciously being the perpetrator of this story, he was lied to and accepted what was said in good faith.

But you, and the gutter press media seem to delight in distorting the facts any way to denigrate this man.

[Jackdaw33]

He took the information he was given at face value and published it. That does not make him a liar.

[spathiphyllum]

It's also a lie. I think spreading news that you don't know is true, is lying. If i got told something about my friend, and then spread it, then i would not say to them "it wasn't a lie, it was fake news" when they questioned why i lied about them.

[naomi24]

Spath, by claiming that this makes him 'a proven liar' you're spreading fake news. It doesn't.

[dannyk13]

Khandro.Read the article, he is still insisting that that happened.

[Jackdaw33]

I suggest you look up the definition of 'lie'. To say, 'I have heard such and such' is not lying, there is no intent to deceive.

[naomi24]

//he is still insisting that that happened. //

The family are at liberty to bring the threatened legal action against him then.

[dannyk13]

Which they probably will Naomi.

[naomi24]

So be it.

[Spungle]

It's a lie to say he is a proven liar. As he said, he was "had". This doesn't make him a liar.

You are grasping at straws, Spath. Just because you don't agree with Tommy, and insult him at every opportunity with childish names, does not make him a liar. However much you try and smear him.

[spathiphyllum]

the term liar is not defined by if the person knows if it's a lie or not. It is the fact he spread lies. Not "fake news" but lies about genuine people who could have been affected (an were) by this.

"ohh he never knew it was a lie" yeah well he had no business doing what he did, especially since it was "fake news" as you would rather say.

[spathiphyllum]

Jackdaw.. definition of liar... "a person who tells lies."

It says nowt about fi they know that they are lies or not. It is his fault for not checking facts before going public with his ramblings. He is a liar.

[naomi24]

spath, //the term liar is not defined by if the person knows if it's a lie or not.//

Yes, it is.

//Liar: someone who represents one set of facts, while knowing that a different set of facts prevails.//

[ummmm]

It's like gossip. You hear something and might repeat it without checking the facts. Doesn't make him a liar.

[sandyRoe]

In view of the incendiary nature of some of his interests does he not have a duty to check his facts before posting on social media?