WaPo: Drudge, Zero Hedge, & Ron Paul are Anti-Clinton "Sophisticated Russian Propaganda Tools"

[AZJoe]

Record Traffic for Our "Fake News" Russian Propaganda Website!
http://www.unz.com/announcement/record-traffic-for-our-fake-news-russian-propaganda-website/

The “Fake News” lists themselves, compiled by some obscure academic as well as a tiny and totally unknown new website called PropOrNot.com, were certainly curious ones. Names listed variously include leading rightwing publications such as the Drudge Report and Breitbart.com but also extended to the some of the most popular libertarian or anti-intervention websites such as LewRockwell, Antiwar.com, Ron Paul, and David Stockman, further extending to leading anti-establishment leftist publications such as Counterpunch, TruthDig, Common Dreams, TruthOut, and Naked Capitalism. Popular websites emphasizing conspiratorial views such as InfoWars, Rense.com, and Zero Hedge made the list, as did publications of the racialist Alt-Right such as American Renaissance and VDare. Even world-famous Wikileaks—that firehose of raw, unfiltered information which obviously falls into an entirely different category—reached one of the lists. …

Given such a bizarre hodge-podge of webzines and individuals—who knew that Ron Paul was a Russian propagandist?—the only common thread I can find is that the writers tend to be critical of the political establishment of both major parties and are especially doubtful about such widespread bipartisan policies as support for nuclear war brinksmanship with Russia. …

But what is “Fake News”? … numerous examples of extremely important and reasonably well-documented stories that remain totally ignored by our entire MSM, possibly due to reasons of laziness, incompetence, cowardice, or corruption. And since the media creates Reality, surely anything not covered by the media cannot exist and must be “fake,” whether or not it is actually true. Given that the media had spent so many weeks proclaiming Hillary Clinton the inevitable presidential victor, perhaps Donald Trump should be declared a “fake president.” …

 

[AZJoe]

Washington Post Begins Back-tracking on its "Story"

"Editor’s Note: The Washington Post on Nov. 24 published a story on the work of four sets of researchers who have examined what they say are Russian propaganda efforts to undermine American democracy and interests. One of them was PropOrNot, a group that insists on public anonymity, which issued a report identifying more than 200 websites that, in its view, wittingly or unwittingly published or echoed Russian propaganda. A number of those sites have objected to being included on PropOrNot’s list, and some of the sites, as well as others not on the list, have publicly challenged the group’s methodology and conclusions. The Post, which did not name any of the sites, does not itself vouch for the validity of PropOrNot’s findings regarding any individual media outlet, nor did the article purport to do so. Since publication of The Post’s story, PropOrNot has removed some sites from its list." inserted 12-7-16​

So Washington Post's back-tracking boils down to :

"Hey we tried to pull a fake news fast one over on the public in order to stifle and intimidate dissent, but got called on it by too many people. Therefore we admit the story is dubious. However we did not make the fabrications, we just legitimized and gave credibility to the bogus accusations by labeling them "experts" even though they are anonymous, and presented the false unsupported accusations as news through an amplified loudspeaker on a national platform while failing to do any investigation, demand evidence, fact-checking, check credentials, or verify methods or motives. Washington Post is not bad, were' just idiots with no actual malice."

 

[DamianTV]

This is a lead up with one inevitable outcome:

TOTAL CENSORSHIP

 

[Danke]

Yeah, I'm surprised we aren't on there. A lot of older posters had their accounts purchase by Russians posing as Trump supporters.

This guy. Lol.

 

[AZJoe]

This is a lead up with one inevitable outcome:
TOTAL CENSORSHIP

We are Watching the Long Game to Total Censorship Play Out:

""I don't believe any of this is a coincidence at all," ... "This is a coordinated effort to take everything that the government does not want people sharing online and slap labels on it: 'hate speech', 'cyber bullying', 'fake news', and now 'Russian propaganda' - mix it all together in a giant ball and justify censoring it. You can see, when you take a step back, how coordinated this effort really is." ... "we are watching the long-game to total censorship play out..."​

http://truthstreammedia.com/2016/12/08/watching-long-game-total-censorship-play/

 

[Todd]

The far left wing is represented in the list as well. Counterpunch is one of my socialist friends favorite pages.