{"id":403178,"date":"2019-04-16T01:05:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T00:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-buzzfeed-caught-in-huge-lie-about-notre-dame-fire\/"},"modified":"2019-04-16T01:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T00:05:33","slug":"prison-planet-com-buzzfeed-caught-in-huge-lie-about-notre-dame-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-buzzfeed-caught-in-huge-lie-about-notre-dame-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb BuzzFeed Caught in Huge Lie About Notre Dame Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Claim video showing people reacting with smiley emoticons was a \u201choax\u201d when it was completely legitimate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>April 15, 2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/150419buzzfeed1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>BuzzFeed lied about the reaction to the Notre Dame fire by claiming that a perfectly legitimate video showing respondents posting smiley emoticons in response to the blaze was a \u2018hoax\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a hoax.<\/p>\n<p>In an article entitled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/janelytvynenko\/notre-dame-hoaxes?ref=bfnsplash&amp;utm_term=4ldqpho\">Here Are The Hoaxes And Misinformation About The Notre Dame Fire<\/a><\/em>, BuzzFeed\u2019s Jane Lytvynenko wrote the following;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInfoWars contributor Paul Joseph Watson tweeted a link to video that claims to show Muslim people celebrating the fire. Watson was amplifying content from a far-right personality named Damien Rieu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCritically, the video in question does not show what people on Facebook were reacting to. It\u2019s also difficult to know the religion of each person reacting to a video en mass. So we really have no idea what was going on here, and there is no proof to back up this claim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is an outright lie. The video in question does show what people on Facebook were reacting to.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the video I posted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A brief summary of who is responding to the tragic Notre Dame fire with &#8216;smiley faces&#8217; on Facebook. Appalling. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OBANPl9Wpv\">pic.twitter.com\/OBANPl9Wpv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrisonPlanet\/status\/1117854455473397763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And here\u2019s the original Facebook video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fbrutofficiel%2Fvideos%2F1088064064725005%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=267\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the original, the respondents are clearly reacting to the Notre Dame fire.<\/p>\n<p>By claiming this to be a \u201choax,\u201d BuzzFeed is itself perpetrating a hoax. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Lytvynenko thinks that placing a yellow \u2018NOPE\u2019 sticker across the tweet invalidates its accuracy. It doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5. We&#8217;ve seen the &#8220;Muslims celebrating with FB reax&#8221; hoax in many other attacks. There&#8217;s simply no way to know the religion of ppl reacting to a video at scale. This screenshot also doesn&#8217;t show the video itself. <br \/>More from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/broderick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@broderick<\/a> here: <a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/buzzfeed-caught-in-huge-lie-about-notre-dame-fire.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claim video showing people reacting with smiley emoticons was a \u201choax\u201d when it was completely legitimate Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comApril 15, 2019 BuzzFeed lied about the reaction to the Notre Dame fire by claiming that a perfectly legitimate video showing respondents posting smiley emoticons in response to the blaze was a \u2018hoax\u2019. It wasn\u2019t a hoax. 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