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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday December 10 2016, @11:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-just-don't-know-what-to-believe-anymore dept.

From rt.com:

Facing threats of legal action, the Washington Post has been forced to add an editor's note distancing the paper from a dubious website, PropOrNot, which it had initially endorsed as a group of nonpartisan experts on "Russian propaganda."

The Post came under fire on social media for its provocative hit piece which claimed that "Russia's increasingly sophisticated propaganda campaign" actually influenced the US presidential election.

[...] Jim Moody, an attorney representing the website, stressed in a letter to the Washington Post on Sunday that the newspaper "did not provide even a single example of 'fake news' allegedly distributed or promoted by Naked Capitalism or indeed any of the 200 sites on the PropOrNot blacklist."

From fair.org:

That a group of Cold Warrior hacks would publish such a blacklist is not a surprise; that one of the most established names in American news would uncritically parrot it was. Its reporting, writing-up and referencing is a prime example of how fake real news on real fake news spreads without question.

USA Today (11/25/16), Gizmodo (11/25/16), PBS (11/25/16), The Daily Beast (11/25/16), Slate (11/25/16), AP (11/25/16) The Verge (11/25/16) and NPR (11/25/16) all uncritically wrote up the Post's most incendiary claims with little or minimal pushback. Gizmodo was so giddy its original headline had to be changed from "Research Confirms That Russia Played a Major Role in Spreading Fake News" to "Research Suggests That Russia Played a Major Role in Spreading Fake News," presumably after some polite commenters pointed out that the research "confirmed" nothing of the sort.


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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday December 10 2016, @08:25PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Saturday December 10 2016, @08:25PM (#439789) Journal

    I don't know what's in it for Russia. I've heard conjectures, but actual motives are uncertain. What isn't uncertain is that they (well, Putin) admit attempting to influence the election in Trump's favor. Of course, he could be lying.

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