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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3101839" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>was it debunked? greenwald mentions something about it in this article:</p><p></p><p>"</p><p>Remember that time the Washington Post <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/12/31/russia-hysteria-infects-washpost-again-false-story-about-hacking-u-s-electric-grid/" target="_blank">claimed that Russia had hacked the U.S. electricity grid</a>, causing politicians to denounce Putin for trying to deny heat to Americans in winter, only to have to issue multiple retractions because none of that ever happened?<strong> Or the time that the Post had to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/2016/11/24/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html" target="_blank">publish a massive editor’s note</a> after its reporters made claims about Russian infiltration of the internet and spreading of “Fake News” based on an anonymous group’s McCarthyite blacklist that counted sites like the Drudge Report and various left-wing outlets as Kremlin agents? </strong></p><p></p><p>Or that time when Slate claimed that Trump had created a secret server with a Russian bank, all based on evidence that <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/yet-another-major-russia-story-falls-apart-is-skepticism-permissible-yet/" target="_blank">every other media outlet</a> which looked at it <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/01/that-secret-trump-russia-email-server-link-is-likely-neither-secret-nor-a-trump-russia-link/?utm_term=.0d6dc14257ad" target="_blank">were too embarrassed to get near</a>? Or the time the Guardian <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/12/29/the-guardians-summary-of-julian-assanges-interview-went-viral-and-was-completely-false/" target="_blank">was forced to retract</a> its report by Ben Jacobs – which went viral – that casually asserted that WikiLeaks has a long relationship with the Kremlin? Or the time that Fortune <a href="http://fortune.com/2017/01/12/cspan-rt-interruption/" target="_blank">retracted suggestions that RT had hacked</a> into and taken over C-SPAN’s network? And then there’s the huge market that was created – led by leading Democrats – that <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/19/15561842/trump-russia-louise-mensch" target="_blank">blindly ingested every conspiratorial, unhinged claim</a> about Russia churned out by an army of crazed conspiracists such as Louise Mensch and Claude “TrueFactsStated” Taylor?</p><p></p><p>And now we have the Russia-hacked-the-voting-systems-of-21-states to add to this trash heap. Each time the stories go viral; each time they further shape the narrative; each time those who spread them say little to nothing when it is debunked."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3101839, member: 56035"] was it debunked? greenwald mentions something about it in this article: " Remember that time the Washington Post [URL='https://theintercept.com/2016/12/31/russia-hysteria-infects-washpost-again-false-story-about-hacking-u-s-electric-grid/']claimed that Russia had hacked the U.S. electricity grid[/URL], causing politicians to denounce Putin for trying to deny heat to Americans in winter, only to have to issue multiple retractions because none of that ever happened?[B] Or the time that the Post had to [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/2016/11/24/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html']publish a massive editor’s note[/URL] after its reporters made claims about Russian infiltration of the internet and spreading of “Fake News” based on an anonymous group’s McCarthyite blacklist that counted sites like the Drudge Report and various left-wing outlets as Kremlin agents? [/B] Or that time when Slate claimed that Trump had created a secret server with a Russian bank, all based on evidence that [URL='https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/yet-another-major-russia-story-falls-apart-is-skepticism-permissible-yet/']every other media outlet[/URL] which looked at it [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/01/that-secret-trump-russia-email-server-link-is-likely-neither-secret-nor-a-trump-russia-link/?utm_term=.0d6dc14257ad']were too embarrassed to get near[/URL]? Or the time the Guardian [URL='https://theintercept.com/2016/12/29/the-guardians-summary-of-julian-assanges-interview-went-viral-and-was-completely-false/']was forced to retract[/URL] its report by Ben Jacobs – which went viral – that casually asserted that WikiLeaks has a long relationship with the Kremlin? Or the time that Fortune [URL='http://fortune.com/2017/01/12/cspan-rt-interruption/']retracted suggestions that RT had hacked[/URL] into and taken over C-SPAN’s network? And then there’s the huge market that was created – led by leading Democrats – that [URL='https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/19/15561842/trump-russia-louise-mensch']blindly ingested every conspiratorial, unhinged claim[/URL] about Russia churned out by an army of crazed conspiracists such as Louise Mensch and Claude “TrueFactsStated” Taylor? And now we have the Russia-hacked-the-voting-systems-of-21-states to add to this trash heap. Each time the stories go viral; each time they further shape the narrative; each time those who spread them say little to nothing when it is debunked." [/QUOTE]
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