Pakistani Defence Minister threatens to nuke Israel after reading fake news
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[QUOTE]Now it seems that another fake news story has prompted the defense minister of Pakistan to threaten to go nuclear.
The defense minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, wrote a saber-rattling Twitter post directed at Israel on Friday after a false report — which the minister apparently believed — that Israel had threatened Pakistan with nuclear weapons. Both countries have nuclear arsenals.
“Israeli def min threatens nuclear retaliation presuming pak role in Syria against Daesh,” the minister wrote on his official Twitter account, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. “Israel forgets Pakistan is a Nuclear state too.”[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Mr. Asif appeared to be reacting to a fake news article published on awdnews.com.
That story, with the typo-laden headline “Israeli Defense Minister: If Pakistan send ground troops to Syria on any pretext, we will destroy this country with a nuclear attack,” appeared on the website on Dec. 20, alongside articles with headlines like “Clinton is staging a military coup against Trump.”
The fake story about Israel even misidentified the country’s defense minister, attributing quotations to a former minister, Moshe Yaalon. Israel’s current minister of defense is Avigdor Lieberman.[/QUOTE]
You'd think world leaders would have advisors that would tell them that shit is fake. Unless that defence minister is like a certain politician who just loves to tweet without all the facts.
Politicians should be banned from Twitter.
Jesus, I guess if anything this goes to show how easy it would be to shatter diplomatic relations if a fake news article can cause this kind of reaction.
[QUOTE=_Maverick_;51580450]Jesus, I guess if anything this goes to show how easy it would be to shatter diplomatic relations if a fake news article can cause this kind of reaction.[/QUOTE]
Fake news turned half the middle east into a hellhole, this is nothing.
[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;51580439]Politicians should be banned from Twitter.[/QUOTE]
Politicians should only be electable if they're literate. Entire system needs a global overhaul. Old men, etc.
The vast majority of people holding political office don't know anything about computers beyond how to use a Yahoo email account.
what if this is fake news too???
[QUOTE=DETrooper;51580524]what if this is fake news too???[/QUOTE]
what if it's actually reality that is a facade; and all news was already fake to begin with?
get ready for stuxnet 2.0
World war three will be declared in 140 characters the way things are going.
Tweet in question:
[media]https://twitter.com/KhawajaMAsif/status/812370140507545600[/media]
The threat wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but that's still pretty awful.
To be fair, in this day and age a lot of stuff gets broken on Twitter/Facebook/Platform-of-your-choice that takes hours to reach "big" Media, and even when it's fake still gets some cursory lipservice by the bigwigs before it's debunked.
I could easily see WW3 being started by a "the nukes have been launched" tweet going viral at a time of high tensions. Especially if it were say, by a hi-jacked account of a big media outlet.
[QUOTE=J!NX;51580541]what if it's actually reality that is a facade; and all news was already fake to begin with?[/QUOTE]
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Someone needs to go in there and take the nuclear toys away from the little colicky children before one of them glasses half the damn continent.
Can our world leaders please stop using twitter?
At the very least it's too few characters to discuss NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST
[QUOTE=milktree;51580426]You'd think world leaders would have advisors that would tell them that shit is fake. Unless that defence minister is like a certain politician who just loves to tweet without all the facts.[/QUOTE]
Speaking without thinking things through is the Pakistani government's secret motto.
[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;51580439]Politicians should be banned from Twitter.[/QUOTE]
They should be banned from social media
I can see someone stupid like George Bush or Trump seeing some NowThis video on Facebook or something and being like AHA! SO RUSSIA IS PLANNING A WAR! WHY HAS NOBODY TOLD ME THIS
Those who write fake news and science reports should be charged with some sort of crime. Shit, worst case scenario, this one could've led to war. Banning politics from social media would be a nice second step, it is not the right platform for it.
2016 has demonstrated us many things wrong with this world.
Lets not have the last thing it demonstrates on how fake news caused the nuclear apocalypse.
[QUOTE=Crazy Ivan;51580771]To be fair, in this day and age a lot of stuff gets broken on Twitter/Facebook/Platform-of-your-choice that takes hours to reach "big" Media, and even when it's fake still gets some cursory lipservice by the bigwigs before it's debunked.
I could easily see WW3 being started by a "the nukes have been launched" tweet going viral at a time of high tensions. Especially if it were say, by a hi-jacked account of a big media outlet.[/QUOTE]
Oh god you mean the fate of the world lays in the hands of a possible troll?
[QUOTE=torres;51581369]Those who write fake news and science reports should be charged with some sort of crime too. Banning politics from social media would be a nice second step, it is not the right platform.[/QUOTE]
Well that kinda just takes a shit on freedom of speech and press....
No one should be basing their nations army off what some jagoff on facebook says.
[QUOTE=torres;51581369]Those who write fake news and science reports should be charged with some sort of crime too. Banning politics from social media would be a nice second step, it is not the right platform.[/QUOTE]
Would be better to take teach them how to conume more intelligently
[QUOTE=OvB;51580683]World war three will be declared in 140 characters the way things are going.[/QUOTE]
It will start with Trump nearly stepping on every other superpower's toes, and the tipping point will be...
a mom joke
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;51581417]Well that kinda just takes a shit on freedom of speech and press....
No one should be basing their nations army off what some jagoff on facebook says.[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, some seem to be. And generating fake ammo for antivaxxers and the like is not what I'd call press or journalism. Freedom of speech, sure, but at the very least, it should not be presented as legitimate news or science. It just leads to the scientifically illiterate thinking they know more about an issue than the people who honestly does.
And then we get Trump's ongoing battle of not reversing/doing anything about climate change.
[QUOTE=Guriosity;51581420]Would be better to take teach them how to conume more intelligently[/QUOTE]
And that is very likely to happen in the current political climate? Socrates warned about the dangers inherent in the kind of uneducated free-for-all democracies we currently see in the west, the ones we should educate is the general population, as they then might stop electing terrible "leaders".
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;51581417]Well that kinda just takes a shit on freedom of speech and press....
No one should be basing their nations army off what some jagoff on facebook says.[/QUOTE]
but is it really freedom of the press when you're making up lies for clickbait and to spread misinformation?
Very, very unfortunate.
However, I kind of wonder if the fake news epidemic is societies sub-conscious discrediting EVERYTHING, so that peoples first reaction to new information becomes one of fact-checking before anything else. So in other words, fighting misinformation with misinformation.
[QUOTE=torres;51581433]Unfortunately, some seem to be. And generating fake ammo for antivaxxers and the like is not what I'd call press or journalism. Freedom of speech, sure, but at the very least, it should not be presented as legitimate news or science. It just leads to the scientifically illiterate thinking they know more about an issue than the people who honestly does.
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Granted, but policing the press because people are basing their beliefs and knowledge from some article they saw in their feed seems like a tremendious waste of resources.
[QUOTE=Naught;51581454]but is it really freedom of the press when you're making up lies for clickbait and to spread misinformation?[/QUOTE]
In all fairness, this responsability can be deferred to the reader to make their own judgements on what they read. This should be taken as an oppoturnity for people to open their eyes and not take news as a single cut, ready served with all your nutritious facts plated out for you.
Fake news isn't something new. Does anyone go to the supermarket, and look at the national enquirer magazines and say "wow this is legit"
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;51581525]In all fairness, this responsability can be deferred to the reader to make their own judgements on what they read. This should be taken as an oppoturnity for people to open their eyes and not take news as a single cut, ready served with all your nutritious facts plated out for you.
Fake news isn't something new. Does anyone go to the supermarket, and look at the national enquirer magazines and say "wow this is legit"[/QUOTE]
Hence this little tidbit:
[QUOTE=torres;51581433]Socrates warned about the dangers inherent in the kind of uneducated free-for-all democracies we currently see in the west, the ones we should educate is the general population, as they then might stop electing terrible "leaders". [/QUOTE]
This isn't the first time this guy has spouted insane bullshit, He has Advocated for Pakistan to get rid of their No First Use Policy, Which he was shut down by their own head of State, this also was shut down by it's own head of state,
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