The
desperate flailing of a mainstream-media struggling through the five
stages of grief continues as no lesser unbiased foundation of the
fourth estate than The Washington Post pushes ahead with its "fake
news, blame the Russians" narrative for why their candidate failed so
miserably.
The
Washington Post states - without irony - that there are now scientific
studies that show how the Russians influenced the 2016 election...
Citing "two teams of independent researchers" (who surely have a
substantial libel litigation provision) who found "Russia’s
increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery... echoed and amplified
right-wing sites across the Internet as they portrayed Clinton as a
criminal," the Jeff Bezos-owned website names Drudge, Zero Hedge, and
The Ron Paul Institute and countless other outlets among the "useful
idiots" that true American patriots should be wary of.
“The
way that this propaganda apparatus supported Trump was equivalent to
some massive amount of a media buy,” said the executive director of
PropOrNot, who spoke on the condition of anonymity with the Post.
In the wake of the
election,
fake news and its spread on social media has come into the spotlight -
for our latest thoughts on this topic please see our "thank you"
notefrom last night.
And as
The Hill reports, a
sophisticated Russian propaganda effort helped fuel the spread of fake
news during the election cycle, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
“They
want to essentially erode faith in the U.S. government or U.S.
government interests,” said Clint Watts, a fellow at the Foreign Policy
Research Institute who co-authored a report about Russian propaganda.
In the wake of the election, fake news and its spread on social media
has come into the spotlight - for our latest thoughts on this topic
please see our "thank you" notefrom last night.
The report from
PropOrNot,
provided to the Post, identifies more than 200 websites that routinely
pushed Russian propaganda to at least 15 million Americans, and found
that false stories pushed on Facebook were viewed more than 213 million
times. You may be surprised by some of the sites on the list (it seems
even satirical fakes news sites are propagandists too)...
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