Alternative facts

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"Alternative Facts" is part of the "word games" or Double Speak used by the Establishment and the Mainstream Media, in their efforts via Fake News lists" and other [Thought Police]-style tactics to combat the growth of Alternative News sites.[1]The phrase went viral after Kellyanne Conway, special adviser to President Donald Trump, and Chuck Todd, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” discussed the size of the crowds at Trump’s inauguration on 20 January. So-called crowd scientists said the crowds were far smaller than Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, but the White House disagreed. "Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts", Conway said.

The social media frenzy, with the hashtag #AlternativeFacts compared the remark to ‘doublespeak’' and had the added distinction of moving sales of George Orwell's dystopian novel ''"1984"'' to the top 3 of Amazon's bestsellers list.

Double Speak

In 1949, George Orwell wrote the novel 1984, which portrays a totalitarian state that limited freedom of thought by creating its own language called "Newspeak". The political purpose of of "Newspeak" was to reduce the English language to simple concepts that reinforced the totalitarian dominance of the State. Moreover, words with negative meanings were removed, such that "bad" became "ungood".

Interestingly, the Main Stream Media under the previous administration of US President Obama seemed all too willing to view people who crossed the border willingly as Undocumented Migrants instead of Illegal Immigrants.

Ministry of Truth

According to an EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy spokeswoman, the European Union's East Stratcom Task Force set up in September 2015 will be getting additional employees in 2017 to counter Fake News and Russian interference in new elections in France and Germany. Critics have theirs doubts about how effective the task force might be - not least because many people are likely to see it as a Orwellian Ministry of Truth for the EU.

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