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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.
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Saturday December 10 2016, @11:13PM
If it is true that the Russians hacked both the Democrats' and the Republicans' servers, and gave the Democrat data to Wikileaks, then the Republicans know that the Russians already have their election campaign "dirty laundry" and can get bits of it published at any opportune time.
It will hang like a sword of Damocles over their heads.
By the way, how do the ministries get handed out in the USA?? Is there some kind of auction (only billionaires need apply)?
"Do I hear more than 30 million for the Energy Ministry? No? Sold to the fracking tycoon on the third row!"
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday December 11 2016, @07:37AM
It will hang like a sword of Damocles over their heads.
Well, how sharp is that sword going to be? It wasn't very impressive for the Democrat side once you got past the DNC carrying water for the Clinton campaign.