re Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say - The Washington Post

["dfarber" <dfarber () me com>]

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> 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>
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> 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/5IuJGHuIkzY>
> https://youtu.be/EEQvsK5w-jY <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 Nov 25, 2016 4:41 AM, "DAVID FARBER" <dfarber () me com <mailto:dfarber () me com>> wrote:
> 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
>  
> <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>
>
> The flood of “fake news 
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/why-facebook-and-google-are-struggling-to-purge-fake-news/2016/11/15/85022897-f765-422e-9f53-c720d1f20071_story.html>”
>  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 
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/why-facebook-and-google-are-struggling-to-purge-fake-news/2016/11/15/85022897-f765-422e-9f53-c720d1f20071_story.html>
>  to crack down on “fake news,” as they have vowed to do after widespread complaints about the problem.
>
>
>
> ...
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