No scam too low.
So, this is obviously a plan by Nunes and Trump to establish a platform for the Russian agents and hackers generating BOT’s at a higher level than 2016 as they push to rig 2018!
Not to be outdone is wingnut Senate candidate Kelli Ward. From Politico: Kelli Ward touts endorsement from fake-news site
Unfortunately there is no law against publishing propaganda. What is required is an educated populace, which shows the evil genius behind Betsy DeVos
Good article on a very depressing subject. We’re bound to get more of this crap in 2018, and it may very well influence a lot of marginally engaged citizens. Politico (I think) ran a story this morning that described how fake news story on the “Maine Examiner” may have cost the Democratic candidate a win in last December’s Lewiston, Maine, mayor’s race.
The only modestly good news in Allegra’s article was this:
Another report by a trio of political scientists found that “almost 6 in 10 visits to fake news websites came from the 10% of people with the most conservative online information diets.”
Too bad those idiots will wallow in even more ignorance than before. But I’d rather that their head’s explode than others be infected.
With apologies to slippery eels in advance, Nunes is a slippery eel.
What? Fux News isn’t a sufficient propaganda machine?
Even if the sites claim to have some kind of disclosure, that doesn’t mean the disclosure passes along when people post their stories or tweet the text. Good thing we have a strong watchdog FEC
This is the market/evolutionary way to achieve the effect of classical brute-force methods. No need to shut down the press, intimidate journalists, etc. Just overwhelm them with fakes so they’re no longer visible.
Now that their voters have been indoctrinated to accept all reich-wing propaganda as gospel, it’s time to put the pedal to the metal and overwhelm any opposing viewpoints (or Trump-forbid, any, gasp, “critical thinking”) with a tsunami of Bull Shit designed to reinforce all pre-existing bigotries, paranoia, and delusional thoughts they have.
Hey, it worked in Rwanda in the 1990’s and in Germany in the 1930’s. Why not here?
In general Republicans in office have no respect for the intelligence of their constituents. They know they will believe anything. I find it insulting and I’m a Democrat. Republican voters are by and large a bunch of chumps.
Regardless if they actually use Russian bots, they clearly have picked up this art from the Russians, this is very much a Russian trade mark enterprise.
Republicans sure have learned a lot of new tricks from their Russian associates. Who says rich old conservative men can’t learn new tricks?.
This reminds me of the stealth candidate strategy used during the Reagan Era. Republicans would run candidates leaving the ® off all their campaign materials and pretend to be Democrats unless called out about it.
If you can’t run as a decent, sane individual, start a news site that insists you must be. Republicans know they aren’t attractive to the majority of voters any longer and are using these Conservative bot sites to distance themselves from their own corrupt actions, policies and votes.
Pretending to be something you aren’t is the hallmark of the Christian Right con men of the Republican Party. .
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In North Dakota we have a prominent blog called Say Anything. It was set up by the Koch brothers as part of their propaganda campaign, though you have to find that out by searching real journalism. The person running it claims he is a government “watchdog” - which means smearing anyone who is to the left of Ghenkis Khan. The site is 100 percent Republican propaganda - and there is no mention of who is funding the site, and is most probably breaking every campaign finance law in existence.
The media would be doing a public service to warn voters to beware of “concerned citizens” offering advise who are operating with big budgets funded by organizations headquartered outside their state an/or country… The Koch Brothers and the Russian oligarchs are apparently operating in tandem now which discredits everything they do. .
The Conservative Movement has gone underground. Voters need to ask themselves why Republicans think this is necessary. What is the GOP doing that is so vile it needs to be kept secret?
Lol…fake news? As long as it comports with their uninformed views, people are happy to embrace any iteration of vile garbage…nothing is too outlandish regardless of how preposterous it may be…
And we complain about “state run” media in other countries. Another sign of decline to third world status.
I’m from Maine and that Examiner fake news site was used to tip Lewiston’s mayor race to the Republicans. They took a statement from Ben Chin(D) out of context and published a fake story that was pushed by the Republican party here. Chin was ahead before (this happened just before the election when he couldn’t really push back quick enough). It’s a big deal here in Maine still.
WOW, Maine Examiner in one of the whitest states around, has a photo of John Lewis from Ga. in an article where he isn’t even mentioned, talk about a dog whistle, I just surprised it didn’t use a photo of Obama (of course that might have been tricky since his popularity is soaring).