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Drudge-- Its ALL their fault
« on: September 20, 2017, 11:10:08 PM »
They are the ones who got the Russians involved.

Much more info, details and photos at the link below.  Go there to read.

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http://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/09/20/how-matt-drudge-became-pipeline-russian-propaganda/217989


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How Matt Drudge became the pipeline for Russian propaganda
Drudge Report has linked nearly 400 times to RT, Sputnik News, TASS since 2012

Blog ››› 11 hours 19 min ago ››› MATT GERTZ
Sarah Wasko / Media Matters

On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing 298 passengers and crew. The next day, President Barack Obama alleged that the responsible parties were Russian-backed separatists seizing territory in the region following Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Obama’s statement came amid a furious effort by Russian propaganda outlets to foster confusion about the act. In their telling, the tragedy had actually been a failed attempt by Ukrainians to shoot down President Vladimir Putin’s plane.

The Russian propaganda effort received a substantial boost when right-wing internet journalist Matt Drudge highlighted a story on the topic from RT.com, the website of the Russian government-backed English-language news channel RT. Drudge titled the resulting item on the Drudge Report, his highly trafficked link aggregation website, “RT: Putin’s plane might have been target...” in bright red text.

After Drudge propelled the RT story to his massive audience, it was picked up by right-wing U.S. conspiracy websites. (Others on the right warned that Drudge had gone too far by aiding a Russian disinformation campaign.)

This was not an anomaly. Drudge has for years used his site as a web traffic pipeline for Russian propaganda sites, directing his massive audience to nearly 400 stories from RT.com and fellow Russian-government-run English-language news sites SputnikNews.com and TASS.com since the beginning of 2012, according to a Media Matters review. Those numbers spiked in 2016, when Drudge collectively linked to the three sites 122 times.

Drudge’s increasing affinity for and proliferation of Russian propaganda comes amid what The New York Times calls “a new information war Russia is waging against the West.”

RT and Sputnik News are part of what the Times' Jim Rutenberg has termed “the most effective propaganda operation of the 21st century so far,” a coordinated network of state-controlled TV and online media outlets and social media accounts that take advantage of the traditional protections of Western liberal democracies to undermine public confidence in the governments of those nations. TASS, which has received less attention in the United States, is a Russian news agency similar to The Associated Press but owned by the state.

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Drudge is the cause of all the problems in the world today.  Go read the article you'll see!
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Re: Drudge-- Its ALL their fault
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2017, 11:24:45 PM »
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Re: Drudge-- Its ALL their fault
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2017, 12:28:08 AM »
WOW! That's unheard of. A right wing media outlet has incorrectly speculated about something in the News. Its a good thing we have the main stream media because they've never done anything like that. OK, maybe once or twice or ten thousand times.

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Re: Drudge-- Its ALL their fault
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2017, 09:04:12 AM »
 When I saw it was written by Media Matters I knew it was BS. The left has a campaign going right now to get The Drudge Report.

http://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-ddos-drudge-report-2017-1 

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=drudge+report+under+attack&bext=wcp&atb=v81-2&ia=news
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Re: Drudge-- Its ALL their fault
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2017, 11:21:37 AM »
I now know my headline is dead on right.  Its all Drudge's fault we don't have hiLIARy as president.

WOW, one website did that.


THANK YOU DRUDGE!!!

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