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juan carlos

The 'Washington Post' 'Blacklist' Story Is Shameful and Disgusting

The capital's paper of record crashes legacy media on an iceberg

By Matt Taibbi

Last week, a technology reporter for the Washington Post named Craig Timberg ran an incredible story. It has no analog that I can think of in modern times. Headlined "Russian propaganda effort helped spread 'fake news' during election, experts say," the piece promotes the work of a shadowy group that smears some 200 alternative news outlets as either knowing or unwitting agents of a foreign power, including popular sites like Truthdig and Naked Capitalism.

The thrust of Timberg's astonishingly lazy report is that a Russian intelligence operation of some kind was behind the publication of a "hurricane" of false news reports during the election season, in particular stories harmful to Hillary Clinton. The piece referenced those 200 websites as "routine peddlers of Russian propaganda."

The piece relied on what it claimed were "two teams of independent researchers," but the citing of a report by the longtime anticommunist Foreign Policy Research Institute was really window dressing.

The meat of the story relied on a report by unnamed analysts from a single mysterious "organization" called PropOrNot – we don't know if it's one person or, as it claims, over 30 – a "group" that seems to have been in existence for just a few months.

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Continua qui: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/washington-post-blacklist-story-is-shameful-disgusting-w452543



On 25/11/16 15:18, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote:
Dalla lista IP di David Farber.

juan carlos

From: Michael Robertson <mr@michaelrobertson.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say - The Washington Post
Date: November 25, 2016 at 8:55:36 AM EST
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Cc: ip <ip@listbox.com>

The two examples they cite of fake news were actually not fake.

1) Hillary's health
Due to citizen reporting we know that Hillary did have health issues. After public scrutiny, her campaign revised her condition first blaming allergies and layer pneumonia.

2) Paid anti Trump protesters
We know from project veritas' undercover videos that operatives for the DNC paid mentally unstable people to disrupt Trump rallies and also people in Donald duck costumes.
https://youtu.be/5IuJGHuIkzY
https://youtu.be/EEQvsK5w-jY
Parties in the videos either resigned or were fired after the videos were made public.

It's entirely possible the Russians placed fake stories online to try and influence the election. However this article does not stand up to scrutiny.  For the two instances references there's publicly available evidence that it's not fake.



On 25/11/16 07:00, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote:
Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say

By Craig Timberg

November 24 at 8:27 PM

The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation.

Russia’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery — including thousands of botnets, teams of paid human “trolls,” and networks of websites and social-media accounts — echoed and amplified right-wing sites across the Internet as they portrayed Clinton as a criminal hiding potentially fatal health problems and preparing to hand control of the nation to a shadowy cabal of global financiers. The effort also sought to heighten the appearance of international tensions and promote fear of looming hostilities with nuclear-armed Russia.

Two teams of independent researchers found that the Russians exploited American-made technology platforms to attack U.S. democracy at a particularly vulnerable moment, as an insurgent candidate harnessed a wide range of grievances to claim the White House. The sophistication of the Russian tactics may complicate efforts by Facebook and Google to crack down on “fake news,” as they have vowed to do after widespread complaints about the problem.

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Continua qui: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/2016/11/24/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html



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