RUSSIAGATE: NYT, FB & FBI Say Anti-Trump Site, Now Shutdown, Was Russian Effort to Help Trump Win

Misgivings about who ran this site can co-exist with legitimate alarm about the combined attacks by the FBI, the Times and other corporate media on the political nature — and not the accuracy — of its published content, writes Joe Lauria.

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[consortiumnews.com]

{The Times‘ reporters on the story did not appear to have read the article, whose contents are the exact opposite of the impression the Times was trying to create.}

In other words, it would seem he suggest. The Times' reporters committed the same ethical err that many citizen arm chair political commentators make everyday on social medias. Although I'm certain Joe Lauria gives these reporters to much credit within suggested ignorance, as I would give to citizen comments. I would argue it was a purposeful agenda.

{In fact, half of IRA’s Facebook ads were purchased after the 2016 election and half of those before the election supported Hillary Clinton, and the other half, Trump. The IRA spent about $100,000 on the ads, compared to the $6.5 billion spent by the Clinton and Trump campaigns.}

If we had a somewhat critically intelligent thinking citizenship within our political arena who possessed even minor abilities to sort fake news from reality who would refrain from sharing such trivial based information, most of this insignificant shit wouldn't have made a mark on the populace. For instance, during the primary only 2 memes made a round on facehack, one each of Clinton and Sanders, which were merely silly shit that had no real adverse effect towards support if you knew the history of each of them. I clearly remember the comments of each of their supporters, none of them being swayed and tribal politics went unmoved. It was also reported that most of the adds had nothing to do with the election. Those reports back then coming from the social medias themselves as they disclosed the amount of money spent. Which was then weighed to be an equivalent to a drop out of an ocean compared to what other entities were spending to condition the population in false narratives and dis/misinformation.

Lets talk about this dis/misinformation while were at it, again. This IRA is not the god dam Russian government which it keeps getting correlated with when this comes up. There has been no proven ties. And when the IRA lawyers showed up to the Mueller hearing Mueller dropped the case refusing to proceed. He either didn't have proof to continue with the indictment, and or he didn't have the ability to tie the government to it. If you can't provide the evidence for your accusations towards an indictment to the defendants you can't prosecute. Case closed.

{“Now Facebook and Twitter are offering evidence of this meddling,” the fourth paragraph of the Times story begins, although nowhere in the rest of the article is any evidence presented. The Times says Facebook made its decision based on a report — which the Times does not link to — written by a company called Graphika.

While spotlighting PeaceData’s purported links to the Russian government, the Times fails to provide readers the same service when it comes to Graphika’s own official connections, in this case to the U.S. government.}

But hey, lets try it again and add a new name to the narrative.

{Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted IRA officials in 2018 for supposedly interfering in the 2016 U.S. election. But the Department of Justice, after stalling on IRA lawyers’ demands for discovery, then dropped the case in March, arguing that the company sought to “weaponize” the documents they obtained. A federal judge had earlier ordered Mueller to stop referring to the IRA as a state actor.}

Well there you go. Joe Lauria goes into it. This information for people new/ish to the group is from the work of the VIPS, {Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity} also a special to Consortium News, that I posted soon after the false narrative of a DNC hack was manufactured in 2016. Which their work also exposed that the hack was actually a leak from an insider, not a Russian government hack. Even with our federal courts being manipulated the way they are it doesn't get much louder than this----A federal judge had earlier ordered Mueller to stop referring to the IRA as a state actor.

{PeaceData had a mix of original and republished articles, Graphika tells us, from publications such as The Grayzone, which Graphika smears as a “pro-Kremlin site.”}

The Grayzone which I use here often has been under a crucial attack lately for their dissenting imperialistic reporting of late. A large part of that being their coverage of the OPCW also which Joe goes into next. And Venezuela, actually, all of Latin America. Any news source as such that holds an unbiased approach refusing to waver in being used to condition either side of the establishment populace tribal supporters is under growing scrutiny toward eradication in efforts to keep citizens ignorant to the reality of these dire times we face. If it follows the agenda of MSCM it will be accepted as conformable news. Anything to keep you ignorant and divided so that you remain conformed to their delusional reality.

{“Despite their targeted efforts at audience building, they failed to gain significant traction, measured in likes, shares, and comments. Most of the network’s English-language posts achieved single-digit engagement figures,” Graphika said.}

In other words. They had the equivalent of success I have here. A mere drop in the ocean with hopes. They were used to reopen a false narrative and then ran out of town for their genuine efforts to expose crimes and unethical practices.

{The takedown of PeaceData worryingly may be a pretext to go after legitimate “homegrown” media as “disinformation campaigns” if they do not conform to the Establishment narrative.}

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