Here's yet another amazing Trump/Russia media failure that's been forgotten. Bear with me for a sec, because this one is truly unbelievable. Cast your mind back to Oct. 7, 2016: the day the Access Hollywood tape came out, and also when WikiLeaks started publishing Podesta emails
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They used this random troll tweet as evidence that the WikiLeaks material had been doctored or fabricated. It was a total lie. Everything published was 100% real. But this then became a meme throughout the national media. Based on nothing but a pro-Clinton troll's tweet to me.
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Nance, Reid, and Frum never apologized or clarified the falsehoods they propagated. And why would they? There's no accountability in elite media. But that's not the end of the story. This next thing, which came a few weeks later, is the craziest part.
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The pro-Clinton troll -- an admitted purveyor of fake news, whose mission was to spread as much disinformation as possible on the internet so he could make money -- was rewarded. With a column. In the Daily Beast. I swear to God, I'm not making this up. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ive-been-making-viral-fake-news-for-the-last-six-months-its-way-too-easy-to-dupe-the-right-on-the-internet …pic.twitter.com/vKeMRtwwNN
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The Daily Beast decided to combat the problem of fake news and online disinformation by giving one of the absolute worst offenders column space to brag about it. Could there be a more ridiculously perverse set of incentives for a major media organization to foster?pic.twitter.com/fEKascjrVj
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Ultimately, this was a minor episode. (I was never contacted for comment, despite being maligned in the troll's article.) But it was one small insight into how elite US media, in the throes of Trump and Russia-induced insanity, decided to throw all their standards out the window.
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Lie ladder. Each rung blames the one below it and nobody can get sued.
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I just talked to
@JoyAnnReid and she tells me she never sent that tweet and that it must have been time traveling Russian hackers!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Do I misunderstand? It looks like all those people are referencing the misinformation AS misinformation. To discredit it. Not to spread it.
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Russian hackers have tainted massive hacking dumps with false information, however. There is good reason to be skeptical of dumps from Russian sources like Wikileaks before accepting that they haven't been tainted.https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/26/russian-dnc-hackers-planted-leaks-with-fake-data/#12e7bfc452ff …
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wikileaks isn't russian, and they have a 100% verified accuracy, so if you have evidence to the contrary besides hearsay, let's see it
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This doesn't justify someone like Trump.
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How
@OmnivoreBlog a#FakeNews guy helped@MalcolmNance@JoyAnnReid &@davidfrum to try discrediting@wikileaks when it mattered b/w 10/7 to 11/6/#2016election! He was rewarded with a gig on the@thedailybeast?@HowardKurtz@MZHemingway@jsolomonReports@SaraCarterDC#MAGA - 1 more reply
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