"Fake News" is a result of Russian machine

[Anonymous]

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

It probably includes human trolls to sites like this

Russia’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery — including thousands of botnets, teams of paid human “trolls,” and networks of Web sites 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.

[Anonymous]

wow

[Anonymous]

Ugh. So disturbing. And as much as I hate to think that an audit/recount could change things, the fact that it was reported on RT first gives me pause that they are just trying to make use question our entire democratic system.

https://www.rt.com/usa/367982-jill-stein-vote-recount/

[Anonymous]

Seems to me that this article could have made the point in 80 percent shorter fashion.

[Anonymous]

What's even scarier is how this is just getting lost in the noise, no biggie.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/don-t-forget-it-happened

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's even scarier is how this is just getting lost in the noise, no biggie.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/don-t-forget-it-happened

I think it's being actively ignored and/or pooh-poohed by Republicans who want Donald to have won fair and square. I can honestly say that if roles were reversed (obvious collusion with the Russians by one candidate, one sided hacking, the Russian propaganda machine, and possible vote hacking) I would not want to claim a Clinton victory. I'm mad at the Russians - but I'm more mad at the millions of spineless Reps who evidently think, eh, no biggie.

[Anonymous]

Week before the election the dems were saying the election could not be rigged and republicans needed to accept the results

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Week before the election the dems were saying the election could not be rigged and republicans needed to accept the results

Silly Democrats. They thought they were talking about an election conducted by and for Americans.

[Anonymous]

NPR says it's a liberal in CA that's king of fake news. Funny rhat

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me that this article could have made the point in 80 percent shorter fashion.

You'll note the topic subject by OP is also fake. What WAPO claims is Russians are simply echoing the 'falsities, not creating them

[Anonymous]

Forgot the link to the NPR site: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503146770/npr-finds-the-head-of-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs

[Anonymous]

LOL Who needs Russians when our domestic paranoid schitzos are in full swing?

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, fake news seems to take very little effort to perpetuate. People are so quick to believe what conforms to their beliefs regardless of how ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

I'm enjoying people swallowing whole, a fake news story about fake news.

[Anonymous]

I like that this thread about the problem is about 80% moron. Or Russian bot. The problem thrives to prove its existence.