🧩 BND Motif Index · M146
Fake news
A particular report, video or quote is said to be made up or twisted to fool the public. Used when people argue a specific story is fake news; the standing charge that the press lies is Lying media. Not for identifying actual fake news people fall for.
🗣️ Arguments🗂️ Bad faith🗂️ Accountability🗂️ Information integrity
- 4claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 3right shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Misinformation spread 🧩 Disinformation campaign
🔗 goes with: 🧩 AI breaking social trust 🧩 Blame the messenger 🧩 Caught on camera 🧩 Firehose of falsehood 🧩 Lapdog press 🧩 Lying media 🧩 Misinformation amplification
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Donald Trump is posting fake quotes from celebrities to endorse him.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-19 “CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford acted as a partisan cheerleader by posting a fabricated or exaggerated exchange regarding Abdul El-Sayed before deleting it.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-10 “The New York Times has spread propaganda and lies regarding casualties in Gaza to support Hamas.”
🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 2026-10-08 “The media is misrepresenting Trump's comments regarding Iran and American cities.”
🎙️ Louder with Crowder 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton
M146 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works