Let this be the final embarrassment to Hillary 2106
Posted on 11/26/2016 11:52:29 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
One of the themes that has emerged during the controversy over “fake news” and its role in the election of Donald Trump is the idea that Russian agents of various kinds helped hack the process by fueling this barrage of false news. But is that really true?
In a recent story, the Washington Post says that this is definitely the case, based on information provided by two groups of what the paper calls “independent researchers.” But the case starts to come apart at the seams the more you look at it.
One group is associated with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a conservative think tank funded and staffed by proponents of the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia, which says it has been researching Russian propaganda since 2014.
The second group is something called PropOrNot, about which very little is known. Its website doesn’t name anyone who is associated with it, including the researchers who worked on the report. And the Post doesn’t name the group’s executive director, whom it quotes, because it says he is afraid of “being targeted by Russia’s legions of skilled hackers.”
PropOrNot’s Twitter TWTR -0.88% account, which tweets and retweets anti-Russian sentiments from a variety of sources, has only existed since August of this year. And an article announcing the launch of the group on its website is dated last month.
According to the description, PropOrNot includes an unidentified number of “concerned American citizens with a wide range of backgrounds and expertise, including professional experience in computer science, statistics, public policy, and national security affairs.”
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Hell no, they’re not! Turn on you alphabet soup of the main street media. They are the purveyors of fake news.
It’s them damn aliens I tell ya.
True. That would be CNN. CNN.
The fake news I see comes from our own Ministry of Propaganda.
...No, Russian Agents Are Not Behind Every Piece of Fake News You See....
No. during the campaign it was the DNC.
That’s a better explanation than the Russians.
Let this be the final embarrassment to Hillary 2106
We have many “Pravda” outlets here in the USA. The left depends on uninformed voters.
Heck, the DNC and CNN are just rather warped versions of Soviets from 30 years ago!
Do the people at the Post, the Clinton campaign and the DNC realize they are accusing a nuclear power of an continuing acts of war against the United States.
Just part of the plan to invalidate the election.
Fake news? Like the Newsweek “Madame president” issue?
Newsweek is a fake magazine because you can’t get it on paper.
A recent story on NPR(!) exposed a fake news site set up by a progressive to troll the alt-right. http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503146770/npr-finds-the-head-of-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs
Heck. RT is the only agency honestly reporting the riots and looting over Hillary losing.
They printed the “Madame President” issue and had to recall it.
http://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/newsweek-recalls-madame-president-issues-depicting-clinton-win
Like Walter Duranty?
Thanks, I had missed that. I guess they are a real magazine for one week every four years. AFAIAC, if trees don’t die it is not a magazine.
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