Beautiful media manipulation

[TacoCat]

I've been following this story about Pedophiles fighting for their rights. It has created a lot of buzz since it seems a little outrageous. First I saw it on my Facebook news feed and I saw a lot of people outraging in the comments, so I decided to trace the origin of the story since it seemed A little sketchy to me.

First I saw it here: http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2015/06/28/pedophiles-want-same-rights-as-homosexuals/
Here it was published on June 28.

It had almoust the full story and the website has almoust 1.2 million facebook followers. But It has a source link that brought me to this site.

http://truthuncensored.net/pedophiles-want-same-rights-as-homosexuals/#sthash.XXI6jV5O.J1kARcSM.dpbs

On this site it was published on 27.june. I couldn't trace any previous origins of this story, so I decided this must be the original site. I did a little background check on the website owner, the e-mail it was registered to was shocker23456@yahoo.com. With this email I found that it owns some other domains that basically are connected to race and other ethnical properties.

The fun part was that Today I saw the article on one of my countries National news website. They didn't provide any source, but it was published today.

What are your opinions, do you think it is just a genial media manipulator behind this? Since the article has no solid facts in it. For me it seems something like out of a Ryan Holiday book "Trust me I'm lying".

Was it one of you?

 

[RomesFall]

Fantastic job of digging this up my friend!

I've been thinking more and more lately about digging up sources that get regularly pillaged by bloggers and 'journalists' for the purpose of getting what I went fed up the chain as far as possible... I'm actually re-reading THAT (awesome) book right now!

I figure the best way to do it is scrape some of the target blogs you want to get on, look for anywhere they cite a source and work your way back. What do you think the best way to go about it is?

P.S. I think quite possibly it's a media manipulator as the e-mail seems almost braggy.

 

[TacoCat]

@RomesFall I'm not sure what would be the best way, but what you said is good as well. Just going up the chain and if you get stuck at some point, just google a part of the article, that was similar in other places and then look at the websites that show up with the same article, if on any of them you found an article that was published earlyer you are one step closes to the origin of the article.

 

[Hopdoddy]

Pretty cool strategy. Pure clickbait articles driving tons of traffic.

I recently saw this article shared on facebook: http://www.iflscience.org/japan-engineers-design-robotic-bear-to-aid-in-assisted-suicide/

It seemed so absurd to me that I did some checking around. Turns out it's just a ton of half truths. It really did get designed, but it's made to mostly help lift patients and do other things. http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/28/8507049/robear-robot-bear-japan-elderly

That BS article got 64k shares on Facebook, though.