This Is What It’s Like to Read Fake News For Two Weeks

Trump transition team members spread fakes news allegation online
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But the two have been largely inseparable since Flynn left the military and echoed each other's strident postings online. When the older Flynn launched an intelligence consulting firm, he gave his son a job as chief of staff.

The son traveled with his father to Moscow last year, according to family associates, where his father was seated beside Russian President Vladimir Putin at a gala thrown by RT, the Kremlin-controlled propaganda news outlet.

The older Flynn has gone largely quiet on social media since the election, but his son remains an active online presence. His Facebook account was updated Monday with a fresh link to a broadcast by right-wing provocateur Alex Jones.

Previous postings include a digitally manipulated image of Trump surrounded by handguns aimed at his head. The weapons are marked labeled with brands of major news organizations, including CBS, the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Neither Flynn appears to have been involved in the initial fabrication of the Clinton email claims. But both amplified the falsehood online as part of a broad stream of dubious postings and claims.

Multiple organizations with alt-right affiliations have spread stories accusing the Clintons of being tied to cases of human trafficking and sex crimes. One involves Comet Ping Pong, and another involves billionaire donor and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's ties to the Clintons.

After leaving office, Bill Clinton was occasionally a passenger on aircraft owned by Epstein, who was also a regular visitor to Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

The initial tweet by the older Flynn linked to an article from the far-right website True Pundit that points to the Epstein case. Comet Ping Pong is not mentioned by True Pundit - either explicitly or implicitly. And in fact, the Reddit posting that spawned what's come to be known as "PizzaGate" (the thread has been taken down by Reddit) is from Nov. 4, according to Snopes - two days after the True Pundit article posted Nov. 2.

Both Flynns have trafficked in these kinds of bogus stories many times before. The son has also pushed a conspiracy theory that Sen. Marco Rubio was a closeted homosexual who abused cocaine, and promoted baseless accounts that Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

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silverhandorder said:
I have a lot of problems with the article CPUd linked. What I have more of a problem with is what he chooses to talk about. Why don't you add your opinion to the conversation CPUd. Why don't you explicitly state what you believe? Because you are a liberal coward. If not a liberal coward you are a cuck that would rather attack your own to please liberals. Sad.
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Notice how this one must resort to name calling whenever presented with uncomfortable truths. Curious behavior, yet not at all unexpected.
 
Two weeks fake news can do some harm but would pale compared to damage from reading and believing fake news for decades.


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silverhandorder said:
I have a lot of problems with the article CPUd linked. What I have more of a problem with is what he chooses to talk about. Why don't you add your opinion to the conversation CPUd. Why don't you explicitly state what you believe? Because you are a liberal coward. If not a liberal coward you are a cuck that would rather attack your own to please liberals. Sad.
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CPUd said:
Notice how this one must resort to name calling whenever presented with uncomfortable truths.
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In the past you said you were not partisan and not necessarily posting what you believed but rather articles that you thought others would find interesting. Now it seems that you finally do have an opinion. What exactly is the "truth" that you now claim to be spreading.

In other words why didn't you answer his question? If I had the truth, I would announce it.

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Why don't you explicitly state what you believe? .
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In case you miss this post, I will bump it in the future.
 
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RJB said:
In the past you said you were not partisan and not necessarily posting what you believed but rather articles that you thought others would find interesting. Now it seems that you finally do have an opinion. What exactly is the "truth" that you now claim to be spreading.

In other words why didn't you answer his question? If I had the truth, I would announce it.



In case you miss this post, I will bump it in the future.
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I'm not the one who claimed to read nothing but fake news for 2 weeks.
 
CPUd said:
Not everyone on a Ron Paul forum is going to be receptive to authoritarianism.
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That's a non-answer and you know it. Why do you dodge it if you claim to present the "uncomfortable truth?"
 
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