Why is our incoming President working to subvert the integrity of our
intelligence agencies on an crime as serious as a conspiracy to subvert
our nation’s election?
Even if the CIA and the FBI are wrong the evidence merits a serious
response and a complete investigation.
They don’t have to be right before we act to protect ourselves!
NEW VIDEO: We need Russian Hacking hearings on what Trump claimed Saturday he knows "that other people don't know" pic.twitter.com/PXxDLTsRzw
Washington Post, November 24, 2016 Russia spread fake news during the 2016 U.S. election
From the Washington Post:
Watts’s report on this work, with colleagues Andrew Weisburd and J.M. Berger, appeared on the national security blog War on the Rocks this month under the headline “Trolling for Trump: How Russia Is Trying to Destroy Our Democracy.” Another group, called PropOrNot, a nonpartisan collection of researchers with foreign policy, military and technology backgrounds, planned to release its own findings Friday showing the startling reach and effectiveness of Russian propaganda campaigns.
The researchers used Internet analytics tools to trace the origins of particular tweets and mapped the connections among social-media accounts that consistently delivered synchronized messages. Identifying website codes sometimes revealed common ownership. In other cases, exact phrases or sentences were echoed by sites and social-media accounts in rapid succession, signaling membership in connected networks controlled by a single entity.
PropOrNot’s monitoring report, which was provided to The Washington Post in advance of its public release, identifies more than 200 websites as routine peddlers of Russian propaganda during the election season, with combined audiences of at least 15 million Americans. On Facebook, PropOrNot estimates that stories planted or promoted by the disinformation campaign were viewed more than 213 million times.
Some players in this online echo chamber were knowingly part of the propaganda campaign, the researchers concluded, while others were “useful idiots” — a term born of the Cold War to describe people or institutions that unknowingly assisted Soviet Union propaganda efforts.
The Russian campaign during this election season, researchers from both groups say, worked by harnessing the online world’s fascination with “buzzy” content that is surprising and emotionally potent, and tracks with popular conspiracy theories about how secret forces dictate world events.
Some of these stories originated with RT and Sputnik, state-funded Russian information services that mimic the style and tone of independent news organizations yet sometimes include false and misleading stories in their reports, the researchers say.
US president-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday Ford Motor chairman Bill Ford had just told him the automaker had decided not to move production at a Kentucky plant to Mexico.
The Telegraph also posted that second tweet from Trump, a blatant lie:
“I worked hard with Bill Ford to keep the Lincoln plant in Kentucky. I owed it to the great State of Kentucky for their confidence in me!” Trump said on Twitter.
The Telegraph corrects the story and clarifies:
Ford has repeatedly said it has no plans to close any US plants and likely could not do so under the terms of the current United Auto Workers contract that expires in 2019.
The real story is that the The UAW, kept the Ford plant in
Louisville, not Trump.
The plant is not primarily a Lincoln plant — the MKC represents roughly 10 percent of its total output. The MKC is a more expensive version of the Ford Escape, which is a much bigger seller than the MKC. Production of the Escape alone is enough to keep the Louisville plant running at full capacity.
Moreover, the decision to keep the MKC in Louisville was made before the two men spoke on Thursday, not as a result of their conversation, according to Ford.
The only news that still carries the Ford story as a victory for Trump is fake news:
In a statement, Ford said the company “confirmed with the President-elect” that it would continue producing Lincoln MKCs at the Louisville plant and added that it was “encouraged that President-elect Trump and the new Congress will pursue policies that will improve U.S. competitiveness and make it possible to keep production of this vehicle here in the United States.”
Below are five fake news sites that regularly pop-up on Yahoo News and Bing as legitimate news media.
WorldNet Daily, founded in May 1997, purportedly to expose wrongdoing, corruption, and abuse of power. Wikipedia
World Net daily dismisses student protests against Trump as ‘childish’ — Go through the archives and find the World Net Daily endorsements of armed insurrection as an adult reaction to a Clinton presidency. Please note that I’m not using false moral equivalency. There no moral equivalency between peaceful protest and armed vigilantes threatening to kill people if their side loses.
The Washington Times defines diverse and White people and White people with tans.
3. The Weekly Standard, founded September 18, 1995 owned by MediaDC, a subsidiary of Clarity Media Group, itself a subsidiary of The Anschutz Corporation. Wikipedia
5. The Federalist, founded in 2013, purportedly rejects the assumptions of the media establishment” and says it is dedicated to discussing “the philosophical underpinnings of the day’s debate” Wikipedia
Apparently, the ‘Philosophical underpinnings’ of our debate over Trump’s election is that GLBT people, Muslims, Latinos, Immigrants and African-Americans must seek out and ‘listen to’ the straight white people who voted to use the power of the government to terrorize them. us.
These disinformation sites are lesser versions of Fox News which is the best organized and best funded fake news site in the United States.
Expect them to do everything they can to subvert fact based coverage of the Trump administration.
Expect right-wing disinformation media to do everything it can to subvert fact based coverage of the Trump administration.
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