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Oct. 11th, 2016 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselking"This is not funny. It is terrifying. The Russians engage in a sloppy disinformation effort and, before the day is out, the Republican nominee for president is standing on a stage reciting the manufactured story as truth. How did this happen? Who in the Trump campaign was feeding him falsehoods straight from the Kremlin?"
(tl;dr: Russian government "news" agency Sputnik put out a false article that misleadingly attributed an out-of-context Kurt Eichenwald quote to Sidney Blumenthal. They retracted the story when the lie was exposed, within hours. And yet, Trump not only got a copy of the discredited Russian-language-only fake story, but he's repeating it.)
(tl;dr: Russian government "news" agency Sputnik put out a false article that misleadingly attributed an out-of-context Kurt Eichenwald quote to Sidney Blumenthal. They retracted the story when the lie was exposed, within hours. And yet, Trump not only got a copy of the discredited Russian-language-only fake story, but he's repeating it.)
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Date: 2016-10-11 11:38 pm (UTC)And, uh, it's more been letting their mask slip and showing, more and more, who their paymasters have always been.
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Date: 2016-10-11 11:42 pm (UTC)