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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 3634275" data-attributes="member: 18225">It’s ‘FSB’ now, the point is the same, they’re waging an asymmetrical cyber-war on our homeland, and they’ve been doing it for decades.I like the part where they started a bunch of fake news sites in various cities...Chicago, Milwaukee, etc.They’d start a twitter feed from the ‘Chicago Daily News’, an actual organization that existed in the past, but was now defunct.(This isn’t a Trump rant, they started these ops years before Trump even announced his candidacy).They start the fake news account, but it looks legit, and for the most part they just tweet out local news.Some of these fake newspaper Twitter accounts had upwards of 70,000 followers.And then, during the 2016 campaign:&nbsp; BOOM,&nbsp; the sleeper awakens.Fake news from fake sites delivered to people who felt they were getting straight news from a ‘trusted’ local source.Brilliant, actually.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 3634275, member: 18225"] It’s ‘FSB’ now, the point is the same, they’re waging an asymmetrical cyber-war on our homeland, and they’ve been doing it for decades. I like the part where they started a bunch of fake news sites in various cities...Chicago, Milwaukee, etc. They’d start a twitter feed from the ‘Chicago Daily News’, an actual organization that existed in the past, but was now defunct. (This isn’t a Trump rant, they started these ops years before Trump even announced his candidacy). They start the fake news account, but it looks legit, and for the most part they just tweet out local news. Some of these fake newspaper Twitter accounts had upwards of 70,000 followers. And then, during the 2016 campaign: BOOM, the sleeper awakens. Fake news from fake sites delivered to people who felt they were getting straight news from a ‘trusted’ local source. Brilliant, actually. [/QUOTE]

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