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Occupy Democrats

January 01, 1970

Occupy Democrats is an American left-wing[8] media outlet built around a Facebook page and corresponding website. Established in 2012, it publishes false information,[14] hyperpartisan content,[20] and clickbait.[23] Posts originating from the Occupy Democrats Facebook page are among the most widely shared political content on Facebook.[24]

Occupy Democrats
Available inEnglish
Headquarters
United States
OwnerOmar Rivero and Rafael Rivero
Key peopleGrant Stern (executive editor)[1][2]
URLoccupydemocrats.com
washingtonpress.com
Launched2012; 12 years ago (2012)
Current statusOnline

History

Occupy Democrats was established as a Facebook page in 2012 by Rafael and Omar Rivero.[25] A corresponding website was later created.[26] Its stated objective is to provide a "counterbalance to the Republican Tea Party".[27][28]

In September 2022, Occupy Democrats was accused of having raised almost $800,000 for its election fund and donating none of the money to federal candidates, and of donating $250,000 from the fund to Blue Deal LLC, a company owned by Rafael Rivero.[29][a] In response to the accusations, Omar Rivero claimed that the fund operated as a super PAC and was barred from donating directly to candidates, and that none of the money given to Blue Deal LLC had gone to him or Rafael. Axios journalist Lachlan Markay said that the election fund was actually a hybrid PAC and thus could donate to political candidates.[29]

Influence

In a 2017 feature on partisan news, BuzzFeed News analyzed weekly Facebook engagements "since the beginning of 2015 and found that Occupy Democrats on the left and Fox News on the right are the top pages in each political category". The article added that the pages "consistently generate more total engagement than the pages of major media outlets".[24]

Occupy Democrats was named the "Most Influential Progressive Facebook Page" by CrowdTangle in 2015[30] and by 2017 surpassed 7 million followers.[31] In 2017, Occupy Democrats was among the 30 most frequently shared sources on Facebook.[6] In May 2020, almost half of the 40 top-performing videos that mentioned "Trump" on Facebook originated from Occupy Democrats.[26] As of October 2022, Occupy Democrats had 10 million followers on Facebook and over 498,000 followers on Twitter.[1]

In a paper presented at the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Argha Ray and Joey George concluded that disinformation propagated by Occupy Democrats "has the potential to further deepen the cracks in an already divided society".[32]

2016 U.S presidential election

 
Occupy Democrats was credited with building support for the candidacy of Bernie Sanders (pictured) in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, though it later shifted its support to Hillary Clinton.

The organization received wide attention during the 2016 presidential primaries of the Democratic Party, and was credited for having helped build support for Bernie Sanders' candidacy.[33] The site shifted its support to Hillary Clinton, following her nomination as Democratic Party presidential candidate.[34]

2020 U.S. presidential election

According to Rafael Rivero, he was "plugged in" with the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign and the campaign worked directly with the outlet to disseminate political messaging.[34][35][36] In October 2020, Occupy Democrats experienced a significant drop in its reach on Facebook, which Rivero attributed to action taken by Facebook to throttle traffic, a claim Facebook denied.[37]

Biden administration

During the presidency of Joe Biden, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain gave his first interview following the 2022 State of the Union Address on a Twitter Spaces live chat hosted by Occupy Democrats.[38]

Content

 
Students at Loyola Marymount University debate the reliability of websites like Occupy Democrats and The Blaze during an instructional event in 2017.

Subject matter

Occupy Democrats posts memes and content primarily about United States politics. Its content is hyperpartisan,[20] left-oriented[8] and built around clickbait[23] and hyperbole.[9] Comments to posts shared on Occupy Democrats tend to be hallmarked by "greater anger and incivility" than those of mainstream media Facebook pages and groups.[39]

Accuracy

Evaluation by academia

In 2017, the Asan Institute for Policy Studies said that Occupy Democrats "share[s] both real and fake news ... further blurring the line between fact and fiction".[10] Some scientific studies have identified Occupy Democrats as a fake news website.[40][41][42][43]

According to the University of Iowa library, Occupy Democrats "has been known to show misleading, fake, or exaggerated partisan content".[11] The Valencia College library includes Occupy Democrats on a list of sources that "cannot usually be accepted at face value and need further verification from other sources to determine if information is credible".[44] In a 2017 poster session developed by the library staff of the University of California at Merced, Occupy Democrats was rated "questionable" for its factual reporting and was noted for "not having a very good fact check record".[45]

Evaluation by media

Occupy Democrats has repeatedly been caught by fact-checking websites for posting "exaggerated or invented news stories". Brooke Binkowski, a managing editor at Snopes, commented that Occupy Democrats' headlines were often "extremely misleading".[46]

According to The Atlantic, Occupy Democrats' posts are "studded with straightforwardly fake news".[9] The Los Angeles Weekly reports that its posts are "free from the constraints of objectivity and, in some cases, facts".[5] A 2016 BuzzFeed News analysis found it was "the least accurate left-wing page" of several Facebook pages it reviewed and cited one instance where it published a satirical story as fact.[47] In the run-up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, The New York Times reported that Occupy Democrats "twisted facts to push a critical narrative about Republicans".[48]

In 2017, PolitiFact included Occupy Democrats in its list of fake news websites. However, PolitiFact later removed Occupy Democrats from its list of fake news sites and, according to the Miami New Times, "admitted Occupy Democrats should never have been on the list in the first place".[49] As of December 2020, PolitiFact classified 62% of 16 posts shared by Occupy Democrats it had evaluated as "not accurate".[50] A further 31% it considered "half-true".[50]

In 2021, a post shared by Occupy Democrats claimed Nikki Haley had changed her first name to sound more "white" in order to further her political career.[51] A fact check column by USA Today reported that Nikki was her legal middle name, she had used it as a given name since childhood, and that it was of ethnic Punjabi origin.[51] The same year, Snopes rated "False" a claim by Occupy Democrats that "Republican Congress members had abjectly failed to applaud Biden’s stated goal of drastically reducing the rate of child poverty in the United States" during that year's State of the Union address.[52]

In April 2022, Occupy Democrats claimed that U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel had posted to social media a manipulated photo of himself showing his head on the body of a Black woman.[53] The Mandel campaign claimed the assertion was "totally false," independent experts were unable to find signs of manipulation in the image, and PolitiFact rated the claim as "unproven" and "false".[53]

In July 2022, Occupy Democrats posted a photo of Ginni Thomas holding a bottle of wine along with a false caption that the photo was a recent one and showed her celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, though the photo actually predated the decision by several years.[54] The following month, the Associated Press reported that Occupy Democrats "misinterpreted the content of ... [a] Pentagon [press] release" to incorrectly claim that United States President Joe Biden would "not recognize any anti-abortion laws enacted by states" in relation to U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.[55]

In March 2023, Occupy Democrats posted content to its social media channels that claimed "156 congressional Republicans … just voted to RAISE the retirement age to 70 [sic]"; Occupy Democrats' source for the information was a social media post by Twitter user "trom771".[56] FactCheck.org marked the claim as false, while USA Today reported it "found no credible news reports of any such vote taken by Republican congressional members".[56][57] Later that year, Occupy Democrats shared social media content that, according to USA Today, falsely claimed Donald Trump increased that United States debt more than any president in history.[58] Occupy Democrats also shared social media content that, according to FactCheck.org, misleadingly claimed "that guns were not allowed at the NRA convention and an upcoming GOP event in Utah".[59]

Popular perception

In a 2017 survey among US readers, Occupy Democrats was voted the "least trusted news source" among American readers, just below Breitbart News and BuzzFeed.[60] In September 2018, the English Wikipedia deprecated Occupy Democrats as a source due to its unreliability.[61][62] In an October 2018 Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations, Occupy Democrats was ranked the third least-trusted news organization by Americans, underneath Breitbart News, the Daily Kos and the Palmer Report, with InfoWars and The Daily Caller being lower-ranked.[63]

Notes

  1. ^ Originally named Blue Deal, LLC., the Occupy Democrats' company changed its name to Blue Digital Strategies after receiving a cease-and-desist notification from the women-owned business The Blue Deal.[29]

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External links

  • Official website
  • Washington Press
  • Occupy Democrats's file at PolitiFacts
  • Posts related to Occupy Democrats at Snopes.com

January 01, 1970
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Occupy Democrats is an American left wing 8 media outlet built around a Facebook page and corresponding website Established in 2012 it publishes false information 14 hyperpartisan content 20 and clickbait 23 Posts originating from the Occupy Democrats Facebook page are among the most widely shared political content on Facebook 24 Occupy DemocratsAvailable inEnglishHeadquartersUnited StatesOwnerOmar Rivero and Rafael RiveroKey peopleGrant Stern executive editor 1 2 URLoccupydemocrats wbr com washingtonpress wbr comLaunched2012 12 years ago 2012 Current statusOnline Contents 1 History 2 Influence 2 1 2016 U S presidential election 2 2 2020 U S presidential election 2 3 Biden administration 3 Content 3 1 Subject matter 3 2 Accuracy 3 2 1 Evaluation by academia 3 2 2 Evaluation by media 3 2 3 Popular perception 4 Notes 5 References 6 External linksHistoryOccupy Democrats was established as a Facebook page in 2012 by Rafael and Omar Rivero 25 A corresponding website was later created 26 Its stated objective is to provide a counterbalance to the Republican Tea Party 27 28 In September 2022 Occupy Democrats was accused of having raised almost 800 000 for its election fund and donating none of the money to federal candidates and of donating 250 000 from the fund to Blue Deal LLC a company owned by Rafael Rivero 29 a In response to the accusations Omar Rivero claimed that the fund operated as a super PAC and was barred from donating directly to candidates and that none of the money given to Blue Deal LLC had gone to him or Rafael Axios journalist Lachlan Markay said that the election fund was actually a hybrid PAC and thus could donate to political candidates 29 InfluenceIn a 2017 feature on partisan news BuzzFeed News analyzed weekly Facebook engagements since the beginning of 2015 and found that Occupy Democrats on the left and Fox News on the right are the top pages in each political category The article added that the pages consistently generate more total engagement than the pages of major media outlets 24 Occupy Democrats was named the Most Influential Progressive Facebook Page by CrowdTangle in 2015 30 and by 2017 surpassed 7 million followers 31 In 2017 Occupy Democrats was among the 30 most frequently shared sources on Facebook 6 In May 2020 almost half of the 40 top performing videos that mentioned Trump on Facebook originated from Occupy Democrats 26 As of October 2022 Occupy Democrats had 10 million followers on Facebook and over 498 000 followers on Twitter 1 In a paper presented at the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Argha Ray and Joey George concluded that disinformation propagated by Occupy Democrats has the potential to further deepen the cracks in an already divided society 32 2016 U S presidential election nbsp Occupy Democrats was credited with building support for the candidacy of Bernie Sanders pictured in the 2016 U S presidential election though it later shifted its support to Hillary Clinton The organization received wide attention during the 2016 presidential primaries of the Democratic Party and was credited for having helped build support for Bernie Sanders candidacy 33 The site shifted its support to Hillary Clinton following her nomination as Democratic Party presidential candidate 34 2020 U S presidential election According to Rafael Rivero he was plugged in with the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign and the campaign worked directly with the outlet to disseminate political messaging 34 35 36 In October 2020 Occupy Democrats experienced a significant drop in its reach on Facebook which Rivero attributed to action taken by Facebook to throttle traffic a claim Facebook denied 37 Biden administration During the presidency of Joe Biden White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain gave his first interview following the 2022 State of the Union Address on a Twitter Spaces live chat hosted by Occupy Democrats 38 Content nbsp Students at Loyola Marymount University debate the reliability of websites like Occupy Democrats and The Blaze during an instructional event in 2017 Subject matter Occupy Democrats posts memes and content primarily about United States politics Its content is hyperpartisan 20 left oriented 8 and built around clickbait 23 and hyperbole 9 Comments to posts shared on Occupy Democrats tend to be hallmarked by greater anger and incivility than those of mainstream media Facebook pages and groups 39 Accuracy Evaluation by academia In 2017 the Asan Institute for Policy Studies said that Occupy Democrats share s both real and fake news further blurring the line between fact and fiction 10 Some scientific studies have identified Occupy Democrats as a fake news website 40 41 42 43 According to the University of Iowa library Occupy Democrats has been known to show misleading fake or exaggerated partisan content 11 The Valencia College library includes Occupy Democrats on a list of sources that cannot usually be accepted at face value and need further verification from other sources to determine if information is credible 44 In a 2017 poster session developed by the library staff of the University of California at Merced Occupy Democrats was rated questionable for its factual reporting and was noted for not having a very good fact check record 45 Evaluation by media Occupy Democrats has repeatedly been caught by fact checking websites for posting exaggerated or invented news stories Brooke Binkowski a managing editor at Snopes commented that Occupy Democrats headlines were often extremely misleading 46 According to The Atlantic Occupy Democrats posts are studded with straightforwardly fake news 9 The Los Angeles Weekly reports that its posts are free from the constraints of objectivity and in some cases facts 5 A 2016 BuzzFeed News analysis found it was the least accurate left wing page of several Facebook pages it reviewed and cited one instance where it published a satirical story as fact 47 In the run up to the 2020 U S presidential election The New York Times reported that Occupy Democrats twisted facts to push a critical narrative about Republicans 48 In 2017 PolitiFact included Occupy Democrats in its list of fake news websites However PolitiFact later removed Occupy Democrats from its list of fake news sites and according to the Miami New Times admitted Occupy Democrats should never have been on the list in the first place 49 As of December 2020 PolitiFact classified 62 of 16 posts shared by Occupy Democrats it had evaluated as not accurate 50 A further 31 it considered half true 50 In 2021 a post shared by Occupy Democrats claimed Nikki Haley had changed her first name to sound more white in order to further her political career 51 A fact check column by USA Today reported that Nikki was her legal middle name she had used it as a given name since childhood and that it was of ethnic Punjabi origin 51 The same year Snopes rated False a claim by Occupy Democrats that Republican Congress members had abjectly failed to applaud Biden s stated goal of drastically reducing the rate of child poverty in the United States during that year s State of the Union address 52 In April 2022 Occupy Democrats claimed that U S Senate candidate Josh Mandel had posted to social media a manipulated photo of himself showing his head on the body of a Black woman 53 The Mandel campaign claimed the assertion was totally false independent experts were unable to find signs of manipulation in the image and PolitiFact rated the claim as unproven and false 53 In July 2022 Occupy Democrats posted a photo of Ginni Thomas holding a bottle of wine along with a false caption that the photo was a recent one and showed her celebrating the U S Supreme Court s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women s Health Organization though the photo actually predated the decision by several years 54 The following month the Associated Press reported that Occupy Democrats misinterpreted the content of a Pentagon press release to incorrectly claim that United States President Joe Biden would not recognize any anti abortion laws enacted by states in relation to U S Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women s Health Organization 55 In March 2023 Occupy Democrats posted content to its social media channels that claimed 156 congressional Republicans just voted to RAISE the retirement age to 70 sic Occupy Democrats source for the information was a social media post by Twitter user trom771 56 FactCheck org marked the claim as false while USA Today reported it found no credible news reports of any such vote taken by Republican congressional members 56 57 Later that year Occupy Democrats shared social media content that according to USA Today falsely claimed Donald Trump increased that United States debt more than any president in history 58 Occupy Democrats also shared social media content that according to FactCheck org misleadingly claimed that guns were not allowed at the NRA convention and an upcoming GOP event in Utah 59 Popular perception In a 2017 survey among US readers Occupy Democrats was voted the least trusted news source among American readers just below Breitbart News and BuzzFeed 60 In September 2018 the English Wikipedia deprecated Occupy Democrats as a source due to its unreliability 61 62 In an October 2018 Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations Occupy Democrats was ranked the third least trusted news organization by Americans underneath Breitbart News the Daily Kos and the Palmer Report with InfoWars and The Daily Caller being lower ranked 63 Notes Originally named Blue Deal LLC the Occupy Democrats company changed its name to Blue Digital Strategies after receiving a cease and desist notification from the women owned business The Blue Deal 29 References a b Perano Ursula October 19 2022 Left s Free of Hate Platform Full of Bigoted Sexist Posts The Daily Beast Archived from the original on May 13 2023 Retrieved October 22 2022 Kilander Gustaf August 5 2021 Occupy leader claims police dragged him out of Kevin McCarthy presser for asking about Capitol riot commission The Independent Archived from the original on March 31 2023 Retrieved March 31 2023 Menn Joseph November 5 2018 Russia seen adopting new tactics in U S election interference efforts Reuters Archived from the original on January 11 2021 Retrieved December 16 2020 Bias Fake News Hoaxes amp Lies redwoods libguides com College of the Redwoods Archived from the original on January 11 2021 Retrieved December 16 2020 a b c d Shammas Brittany September 26 2017 Behind the Scenes at Occupy Democrats Los Angeles Weekly Archived from the original on October 28 2020 Retrieved December 16 2020 The company is an undisputed leader in a new industry of hyper partisan sites that churn out aggregated unabashedly partisan news The sites live and die on Facebook free from the constraints of objectivity and in some cases facts they re able to play to their audiences emotions a b c Benkler Yochai 2018 Network Propaganda Manipulation Disinformation and Radicalization in American Politics Oxford University Press p 54 ISBN 978 0190923624 a b Dwoskin Elizabeth September 4 2021 Misinformation on Facebook got six times more clicks than factual news during the 2020 election study says The Washington Post Archived from the original on October 21 2021 Retrieved October 22 2022 The team then took 2 551 of these pages and compared the interactions on posts on pages by publishers known for misinformation such as the left leaning Occupy Democrats a b 3 4 5 6 7 a b c d Coppins McKay July 2 2017 How the Left Lost Its Mind The Atlantic Archived from the original on December 23 2017 Retrieved December 16 2020 The content plastered across these pages includes standard issue clickbait Trump Just Did Something Awful At His Golf Course and hyperbolic headlines Queen Elizabeth Just Told Trump To Go F ck Himself And It Is Perfect But these feeds are also studded with straightforwardly fake news a b c Forney Ben September 25 2017 All the Fake News That s Fit to Print Asan Institute for Policy Studies Archived from the original on August 17 2023 Retrieved January 4 2021 Today partisan Facebook groups such as Occupy Democrats continue to share both real and fake news to their millions of followers further blurring the line between fact and fiction a b Library Sources Credibility amp Finding the Good Stuff Evaluation and Credibility uiowa edu University of Iowa Archived from the original on January 5 2021 Retrieved January 4 2021 This comes from Occupy Democrats which has been known to show misleading fake or exaggerated partisan content favoring Democrats a b Breitbart Occupy Democrats among list of alleged fake misleading news sites to avoid KING TV November 17 2016 Archived from the original on January 11 2021 Retrieved December 16 2020 a b Rae Maria March 5 2020 Hyperpartisan news Rethinking the media for populist politics New Media and Society 23 5 1117 1132 doi 10 1177 1461444820910416 S2CID 216172926 Archived from the original on January 5 2022 Retrieved January 4 2021 Occupy Democrats are likewise focused on attacking Trump through their clickbait style of reporting which has been criticised as fake news 5 9 10 11 12 13 7 Barfar Arash December 1 2019 Cognitive and affective responses to political disinformation in Facebook Computers in Human Behavior 101 175 doi 10 1016 j chb 2019 07 026 ISSN 0747 5632 S2CID 199884854 Archived from the original on December 9 2021 Retrieved July 10 2021 via Science Direct To construct the political disinformation sample we focused on Facebook posts from ten popular sources that are known for promulgating political disinformation in Facebook Among the selected hyper partisan disinformation sources Addicting Info AlterNet Daily KOS and Occupy Democrats are extreme Liberal Marwick Alice E March 22 2018 Why do People Share Fake News A Sociotechnical Model of Media Effects The Georgetown Law Technology Review 2 2 Georgetown University Law Center 474 513 Archived from the original on August 17 2023 Retrieved July 10 2021 via Gale OneFile The term fake news expanded to include hyper partisan news sites like Breitbart DailyCaller and Occupy Democrats LaFrance Adrienne December 15 2020 Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine The Atlantic Archived from the original on July 5 2021 Retrieved July 10 2021 Zuckerberg authorized a tweak to the Facebook algorithm so that high accuracy news sources such as NPR would receive preferential visibility in people s feeds and hyper partisan pages such as Breitbart News s and Occupy Democrats would be buried Horne Benjamin D Dron William Khedr Sara Adali Sibel April 23 2018 Assessing the News Landscape A Multi Module Toolkit for Evaluating the Credibility of News Companion of the Web Conference 2018 on the Web Conference 2018 WWW 18 Lyon France International World Wide Web Conference pp 235 238 doi 10 1145 3184558 3186987 ISBN 978 1 4503 5640 4 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a 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2021 a b No evidence Josh Mandel photoshopped his face onto body of Black Marine for campaign ad PolitiFact April 7 2022 Archived from the original on July 24 2022 Retrieved July 23 2022 Fact Check Image of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and wife Ginni Thomas holding a bottle of wine predates leak of Roe v Wade opinion Snopes May 18 2022 Archived from the original on July 24 2022 Retrieved July 23 2022 MacGuill Dan July 1 2022 A look at what didn t happen this week Associated Press Archived from the original on July 24 2022 Retrieved July 23 2022 a b Gore D Angelo March 6 2023 Liberal Group s Meme Mentions Nonexistent GOP Vote to Raise Social Security s Retirement Age FactCheck org Archived from the original on March 31 2023 Retrieved March 31 2023 Kochi Sudiksha March 14 2023 Fact check Misleading claim about Republicans voting to raise retirement age to 70 USA Today Archived from the original on March 31 2023 Retrieved March 31 2023 Kochi Sudiksha May 2023 False claim Trump increased debt more than any president Fact check USA Today Retrieved January 11 2024 Jones Brea January 11 2024 Posts Mislead on Rules for Guns at NRA Convention Utah GOP Event Factcheck org Retrieved April 21 2023 Ruddick Graham August 9 2017 Four UK news sources among top 10 most trusted in US survey The Guardian Archived from the original on October 11 2021 Retrieved August 21 2017 Cole Samantha March 10 2018 Wikipedia Bans Right Wing Site Breitbart as a Source for Facts Vice Archived from the original on June 13 2022 Retrieved February 5 2021 Benjakob Omer January 9 2020 Why Wikipedia Is Much More Effective Than Facebook at Fighting Fake News Haaretz Archived from the original on October 13 2022 Retrieved August 23 2022 Benton Joshua October 5 2018 Here s how much Americans trust 38 major news organizations hint not all that much Nieman Lab Archived from the original on December 8 2020 Retrieved July 1 2021 External linksOfficial website Washington Press Occupy Democrats s file at 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