Fake News Onslaught Targets Pizzeria as Nest of Child-Trafficking

[CPUd]

Fake News Onslaught Targets Pizzeria as Nest of Child-Trafficking

WASHINGTON — Days before the presidential election, James Alefantis, owner of a local pizza restaurant called Comet Ping Pong, noticed an unusual spike in the number of his Instagram followers.

Within hours, menacing messages like “we’re on to you” began appearing in his Instagram feed. In the ensuing days, hundreds of death threats — one read “I will kill you personally” — started arriving via texts, Facebook and Twitter. All of them alleged something that made Mr. Alefantis’s jaw drop: that Comet Ping Pong was the home base of a child abuse ring led by Hillary Clinton and her campaign chief, John D. Podesta.

When Mr. Alefantis discovered that his employees were getting similar abusive messages, he looked online to unravel the accusations. He found dozens of made-up articles about Mrs. Clinton kidnapping, molesting and trafficking children in the restaurant’s back rooms. The articles appeared on Facebook and on websites such as The New Nationalist and The Vigilant Citizen, with one headline blaring: “Pizzagate: How 4Chan Uncovered the Sick World of Washington’s Occult Elite.”

None of it was true. While Mr. Alefantis has some prominent Democratic friends in Washington and was a supporter of Mrs. Clinton, he has never met her, does not sell or abuse children, and is not being investigated by law enforcement for any of these claims. He and his 40 employees had unwittingly become real people caught in the middle of a storm of fake news.

“From this insane, fabricated conspiracy theory, we’ve come under constant assault,” said Mr. Alefantis, 42, who was once in a relationship with David Brock, a provocative former right-wing journalist who became an outspoken advocate for Mrs. Clinton.

Mr. Alefantis suspects those relationships may have helped to make him a target. “I’ve done nothing for days but try to clean this up and protect my staff and friends from being terrorized,” he said.

Fake news online has been at the center of a furious debate for the past few weeks over how it may have influenced voters in the presidential election. President Obama warned last week that we are “in an age where there’s so much active misinformation and it’s packaged very well” on social media sites. The criticism has buffeted web companies such as Google and Facebook, whose chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has promised to work on technology tools to slow the gusher of false digital information.

But Mr. Alefantis’s experience shows it is not just politicians and internet companies that are grappling with the fake news fallout. He, his staff and friends have become a new kind of private citizen bull’s-eye for the purveyors of false articles and their believers.

For more than two weeks, they have struggled to deal with the abusive social media comments and to protect photos of their own children, which were used in the false articles as evidence that the pizza restaurant was running a pedophilia ring. One person even visited Comet Ping Pong to investigate the allegations for himself.

To combat the fake news tide, Mr. Alefantis has contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the local police, and he has asked Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Reddit to remove the articles. Yet the misinformation has continued to spread, growing into a theory known as #pizzagate that has traveled to Ireland. At one point, Comet’s staff counted five #pizzagate Twitter posts a minute. As recently as Sunday night, the Twitter message “Don’t let up. #PizzaGate EVERYWHERE” was reposted and liked hundreds of times.

“It’s like trying to shoot a swarm of bees with one gun,” said Bryce Reh, Comet’s general manager, whose wife asked him to leave his job because of the threats and vulgar messages they both have received on their social media accounts.

Mr. Alefantis, an artist born and raised in Washington, co-founded Comet Ping Pong 10 years ago as a casual spot for clay oven pizza. The restaurant has kid-friendly features like Ping-Pong tables and a craft room. Famous natives like members of the band Fugazi have held small shows there. The eatery, which seats 120, is a mash-up of red and white checkered tablecloths and modernist murals and paintings from friends of Mr. Alefantis.

Mr. Alefantis mingles with other Washington chefs and his establishment helped him to be named No. 49 in GQ magazine’s 50 most powerful people in Washington in 2012. His customers include some high-powered locals, such as Tony Podesta, the brother of John Podesta, whom Mr. Alefantis knows casually. Mr. Alefantis and Mr. Brock, who is the founder of Media Matters for America, a website that tracks press coverage critical of the Clintons and works to debunk misinformation in the conservative press, broke up five years ago.

The misinformation campaign began when John Podesta’s email account was hacked and his emails were published by WikiLeaks during the presidential campaign. Days before the election, users on the online message board 4Chan noticed that one of Mr. Podesta’s leaked emails contained communications with Mr. Alefantis discussing a fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton.

The 4Chan users immediately speculated about the links between Comet Ping Pong and the Democratic Party. Some posited the restaurant was part of a larger Democratic child trafficking ring, which was a theory long held by some conservative blogs. That idea jumped to other social media services such as Twitter and Reddit, where it gained momentum on the page “The_Donald.” A new Reddit discussion thread called “Pizzagate” quickly attracted 20,000 subscribers.

Glen Caplin, a former campaign official for Mrs. Clinton, did not comment directly about Comet Ping Pong but said, “WikiLeaks has spawned several conspiracy theories that have been independently debunked.” Mr. Podesta did not respond to requests for comment.

Soon, dozens of fake news articles on sites such as Facebook, Planet Free Will and Living Resistance emerged. Readers shared the stories in Saudi Arabia and on Turkish and other foreign language sites.

Last week, one supporter of the Pizzagate theory shot a live video from within the restaurant during a busy dinner shift. Local police, who had parked across the street after Mr. Alefantis filed a report about the fake news stories and threats, told the man to leave.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this-pizzeria-is-not-a-child-trafficking-site.html

[Danke]

Ron Paul's list of Fake news purveyors:

http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/uploads/2/7/6/1/27619303/journalists-wiki-tw.jpg


http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/revealed-the-real-fake-news-list

[AngryCanadian]

I guess the nytimes hasn't seen that leaked video yet.

[Danke]

I guess the nytimes hasn't seen that leaked video yet.

NYT is a fake news source.

[osan]

And now, the money shot:


...Mark Zuckerberg, has promised to work on technology tools to slow the gusher of false digital information.

I could readily surmise that events like this are intentionally generated, a la a Hegelian Dialectic. And now, ladies and gentlemen, the cure...

Cue "law" imposing arbitrary judgement and further restriction of basic human rights in 4... 3... 2...

[osan]

NYT is a fake news source.

Simple. Truthful. Elegantly concise.

Brillig and spongew... erm, repworthy

[otherone]

Simple. Truthful. Elegantly concise.

Brillig and spongew... erm, repworthy

you want elegantly concise?

President Obama warned last week that we are “in an age where there’s so much active misinformation and it’s packaged very well”
INFO WAR
Fake news is the establisment's tool to reassert faith in the MsM.

[otherone]

Mr. Alefantis mingles with other Washington chefs and his establishment helped him to be named No. 49 in GQ magazine’s 50 most powerful people in Washington in 2012.

That must be some fucking good pizza.

[osan]

Simple. Truthful. Elegantly concise.

Brillig and spongew... erm, repworthy


ETA: Given that this is the NYT speaking, and with their typically and artlessly biased voice, I become suspicious that they are on yet another campaign to help out some of their fellow travelers. Could be otherwise, but I would not dismiss this possibility. We are talking of humans of the absolute worst sort here. They make Uncle Adolph seem cuddly and adorable by comparison.

ETA on the ETA:​ Well crap.

[Lucille]

Well that settles it.

"Never believe anything until it's been officially denied."
--Anonymous (http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/07/believe/)

Paedophiles delenda est.

Fiat justitia ruat caelum.

[Influenza]

It's not fake news. There is a large amount of evidence in coded emails released by wikileaks, creepy instagram photos that were soon deleted, and pedophile symbols in the logo that was immediately changed when detected.

And on top of all of this, read this link:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/14/british-detectives-efits-madeleine-mccann-suspect
These two faces were released of suspects in the 2007 missing child case in Portugal in 2013. Look at the computer generated photos and compare them to the Podesta bros. The resemblance is striking

[devil21]

Mr. Alefantis mingles with other Washington chefs and his establishment helped him to be named No. 49 in GQ magazine’s 50 most powerful people in Washington in 2012.

That must be some fucking good pizza.

I think you mean some good fucking pizza.

[specsaregood]

you want elegantly concise?

President Obama warned last week that we are “in an age where there’s so much active misinformation and it’s packaged very well”
INFO WAR
.

Sorta like when the white house claimed the libya attack was because of a stupid YouTube video. Lol, misinformation indeed.

[Danke]

you want elegantly concise?

President Obama warned last week that we are “in an age where there’s so much active misinformation and it’s packaged very well”
INFO WAR
Fake news is the establisment's tool to reassert faith in the MsM.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa49iocFTSE

[CPUd]

Beware Of The Mainstream Media's Solution To 'Fake News'


The Twitter symbol appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Twitter, long criticized as a hotbed for online harassment, is expanding ways to curb the amount of abuse users see and making it easier to report such conduct. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Anyone reading the front pages of The Washington Post and The New York Times leading up to Election Day has to see the irony is the mainstream media’s gripe about “fake news” on social media influencing the election.

At the basis of why such premiere, left-leaning publications are concerned is the fact that their power to influence has diminished.

When The New York Times’ publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. wrote a letter to the paper’s subscribers saying “[we] rededicate ourselves to the fundamental mission of Times journalism. That is to report America and the world honestly, without fear or favor…” but then said, “[y]ou can rely on The New York Times to bring the same fairness, the same level of scrutiny, the same independence to our coverage of the new president and his team….” he gave a classic non-apology apology that has since drawn snickers across social media.

So it is hard to take their concerns seriously, but we should for two reasons. First, there have been a lot of fake stories, conspiracy theories and more masquerading as fact-based news. The solution to this is the open marketplace of ideas. Readers should call them out and challenge their sources and claims—and they often do.

The second reason we need to pay attention is that some on the Left are suggesting a new “Fairness Doctrine” or “net neutrality” regulations for the Internet as a solution.

After arguing we need a new Fairness Doctrine for the Internet, Brian Hughes, a professor of media studies at Queens College, wrote for CNN,“Big Data analytics like Facebook’s social graph are notorious for their ability to identify consumer niches. It should therefore be possible to individually program our news feeds for balance and accuracy. If services like Facebook and Google are allowed to become news-aggregating monopolies, it’s only reasonable to expect them to serve the public good as well as the bottom line.”

Sounds nice. He’s talking about “balance and accuracy.” But what does he mean?

The Fairness Doctrine, which President Ronald Reagan’s FCC terminated, allowed the government to decide what was content neutral. This allowed the FCC to fine radio and TV stations, or even to revoke their licenses, if it didn’t think broadcasts were fair and balanced or if the station aired profanity, hate speech or other offenses; as a result, many radio stations simply stayed out of politics. The result was less speech, not more. It is no accident that conservative talk radio bloomed soon after Reagan’s FCC killed the Fairness Doctrine. In retrospect, it is no surprise that this unleashing of freedom led to the creation of FOX News.

The classical libertarian John Stuart Mill, in his book On Liberty (1859), outlined the importance of this freedom by writing:

First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for all we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

Secondly, though the silenced opinion is an error, it may, and very well commonly does, contain a portion of the truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any object is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

Thirdly, even if the received opinion is not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds.

Stuart’s third point brings the once dominant views of the networks and the newspapers like The New York Times into focus, as at one time their point of view went almost unchallenged.

On February 16, 2009, Mark S. Fowler, who served as President Reagan’s FCC chairman, told conservative radio talk-show host Mark Levin that his work toward revoking the Fairness Doctrine had been a matter of principle, not partisanship. Fowler said Reagan’s White House staff thought repealing the policy would be politically unwise. Fowler said that the White House staff thought the Fairness Doctrine was the “only thing that really protects you [Reagan] from the savageness of the three networks … and Fowler is proposing to repeal it.”
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Instead of doing the politically expedient thing, President Reagan supported Fowler’s struggle to repeal the Fairness Doctrine’s gag order on free speech. Reagan later even vetoed a Democratic-controlled Congress’s effort to make the Fairness Doctrine federal law.

Many Democrats have long seen it differently. They think government is a fair arbitrator that can neutrally decide when someone can speak, even on a privately owned station; in fact, after the 2006 midterm elections, Democrats began pushing to allow government regulators to act again as censors by listening to broadcasts and fining those it doesn’t think presents both sides fairly.

Now some are using the “fake news” phenomena as an excuse to re-invite this kind of government control over First Amendment-protected speech or by asking Facebook and Twitter to become even bigger censors of certain views.

To be fair, some notable journalists on the Left are critical of this idea.

The Atlantic’s David Frum, for example, wrote: “So long as they refrain from incitement and harassment, the right way to deal with social media’s neo-Nazis is not by taking away their platforms, but by taking away their audiences, by welcoming a more open and more intelligent discussion of what Americans yearn most to hear about.”


http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2016/11/17/beware-of-the-mainstream-medias-solution-to-fake-news/

[scm]

Don't worry. THUMP will take care of this with a new "ministry of truth"
The plans have been in the works for a long time.

[Smaulgld]

The only reason they wrote that was so that it would appear at the top of google when people searched pizzagate- they people would say to themselves, I see it's fake nothing to see here.
The Times did no research to prove the story is untrue they merely declared it fake

[Smaulgld]

NYT is a fake news source.
as are is the WAPO CNN etc
CBS is touting 'how to protect yourself against fake news!" http://fakenews.news/2016/11/25/cbs-tells-readers-avoid-fake-news/

[osan]

you want elegantly concise?

President Obama warned last week that we are “in an age where there’s so much active misinformation and it’s packaged very well”

Obama would know, given how much he's churned out like cheap sausage.

[ConcernedAmerican]

Don't worry. THUMP will take care of this with a new "ministry of truth"
The plans have been in the works for a long time.
That's what I'm talking about.

[ConcernedAmerican]

If it didn't come from Infowars or Breitbart, reject it.

[Jamesiv1]

CBS praising Snopes?

hmmm.... makes me wonder who owns Snopes these days.

[scm]

That's what I'm talking about.

Already happening
https://www.intellihub.com/trump-starts-new-youtube-channel-to-combat-fake-news/

[ConcernedAmerican]

Already happening
https://www.intellihub.com/trump-starts-new-youtube-channel-to-combat-fake-news/
There you go. All the news we'll ever need. ;)

[enhanced_deficit]

NYT, WaPo neocons' stand against "Fake News" is very encouraging.


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[CPUd]

Social-Media Companies Forced to Confront Misinformation and Harassment

Sites struggle to find a balance between being havens for misinformation and censors of free speech


Ongoing complaints about misinformation and hate speech on the internet are forcing social-media companies to confront whether they need to take more responsibility for the content on their sites.

Twitter Inc. on Tuesday said it would let users block notifications of tweets that include specific words, among other moves, in an effort to combat harassment on the short-messaging service.

On Monday, Facebook Inc. said it would bar websites that post fabricated or misleading news articles from using its ad-selling tools. But it is unclear how Facebook will identify those sites, and they might still appear in the more-heavily-trafficked news feed, a source of news for 44% of Americans, according to Pew Research.

Both the Twitter and Facebook moves may fail to address many users’ concerns. They show technology companies that have grown into powerful media voices struggling to find a balance between being havens for misinformation and censors of free speech.

Concerns about false news stories on Facebook intensified during the recent presidential election campaign after erroneous claims were shared widely on the network, such as reports that Pope Francis had endorsed Donald Trump and that the Clinton Foundation bought $137 million in illegal arms.

Some critics say the social-media sites should do more to promote accuracy and civil discourse. But the companies are wary of prescribing what their users should read or how they should act.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook post on Saturday played down the impact of fake news, while also saying that his company is developing tools to curb it, including one that would allow users to flag news that they believe is fake.

But Syracuse University communications professor Jennifer Grygiel, who studies social media, said relying on users is inadequate. Instead, she said Facebook should hire more workers to review widely shared articles and remove those that are false.

“What he needs to do is hire more humans instead of pushing (the responsibility) onto the end user,” Ms. Grygiel said. “Know how much the community is trained in identifying fake news? Zilch.”

In his Saturday post, Mr. Zuckerberg said Facebook won’t try to separate fact from fiction, because defining the truth is complicated. “We must be extremely cautious about becoming arbiters of truth ourselves,” he wrote.

Karen North, director of the social-media program at the University of Southern California, agreed.

“Do you really want Facebook and Twitter deciding what you can talk about?” she asked. “It’s a slippery slope and these companies already have massive control over what we see and what we don’t.”

Facebook has strained to appear objective, particularly after reports in May that certain politically motivated workers prevented conservative news from appearing in its “trending topics” feature.

Executives have been uneasy about taking steps that suggest Facebook is restricting free speech, current and former employees say. That has stirred dissent within the company, with some employees urging Facebook to do more to weed out misinformation, according to two people familiar with the matter. They said the topic was discussed during an all-hands meeting Thursday with the 32-year-old CEO.

Google parent Alphabet Inc. had largely avoided the controversy around internet propaganda, because it doesn't operate a thriving social network and because its search engine rewards websites that are linked to by established sites.

Still, the company was pulled into the debate on Sunday when a post from a little-known right-wing blog erroneously stating that Mr. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the popular vote appeared atop the Google search results for several election-related queries. Mrs. Clinton is leading by almost 700,000 votes in the Journal’s tabulation.

“In this case we clearly didn’t get it right, but we are continually working to improve our algorithms,” a Google spokeswoman said in an email.

On Monday, shortly before Facebook’s similar announcement, Google said it would ban fake-news websites from using its ad-selling system, likely hurting those sites’ revenue. Google’s AdSense program, which helps website operators sell ads on their sites, is the most popular way to monetize websites and has helped fund many propaganda sites. Google pulled AdSense from several sites on Monday.

Twitter, meanwhile, has long grappled with complaints that some users repeatedly post abusive and harassing messages. The moves announced Tuesday include a feature that lets users block notifications of tweets that include specific words or phrases. Users will still see such tweets on Twitter’s website and app.

When flagging problem tweets, users will be able to note that the messages include hate speech or “targeted harassment.” Users can also now block specific conversations between other users that include them.

Del Harvey, Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety, acknowledged the steps are “not going to solve the problem of abuse on Twitter.”

Ms. North, the USC professor, said the burden to report abuse falls largely on the victim. “While they keep making these small steps…there’s still no major consequences for abusing anyone on Twitter,” she said.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/social-media-companies-forced-to-confront-misinformation-and-harassment-1479218402

[AuH20]

They can't compete so now they want someone to mediate the news.

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[CPUd]

They can't compete so now they want someone to mediate the news.

802184813151133696

Why would they want to do that? They are getting record high ratings.

[AuH20]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ED63A_hcd0

[nikcers]

If it didn't come from Infowars or Breitbart, reject it.
Books too, those are controlled a propaganda medium. The establishment doesn't let any real information get printed out. Everything is a lie.

[AuH20]

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[Jamesiv1]

Already happening
https://www.intellihub.com/trump-starts-new-youtube-channel-to-combat-fake-news/
I think the POTUS having a YouTube channel is genius.

and hilarious at the same time lol

May I have another helping of salty tears, please?

[scm]

I think the POTUS having a YouTube channel is genius.

and hilarious at the same time lol

May I have another helping of salty tears, please?

You still have yet to shower me with all those facts explaining how I am no friend of liberty or how i "hate" america.

[Jamesiv1]

You still have yet to shower me with all those facts explaining how I am no friend of liberty or how i "hate" america.
I know you are but what am I?

You might want to do some research before you embarrass yourself again.

[scm]

I know you are but what am I?

You might want to do some research before you embarrass yourself again.

Just another useless post. Your specialty.

[Jamesiv1]

Just another useless post. Your specialty.
don't make me open up a can of whoop-ass.

[scm]

don't make me open up a can of whoop-ass.
Please
all talk
no tits
just another grimy whore

[Jamesiv1]

Please
all talk
no tits
just another grimy whore
your salty tears are yummy yummy good good Yay!!!

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.prestongroup.org/stuff/bananas.gif

[staerker]

The failing New York Times (listed in OP) is pushing this story as fake.

This same (failing) New York Times?

Image 1:
http://archive.is/e9vdZ // https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/27/how-bbc-star-jimmy-savile-got-away-with-allegedely-abusing-500-children-and-sex-with-dead-bodies/

Image 2:
http://archive.is/yX4ra // http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-19808658

Image 3:
http://archive.is/tB41s // http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/10512203/Former-BBC-boss-Mark-Thompson-lied-over-Savile-evidence-Nick-Pollard-claims.html



https://i.sli.mg/oA4Xp3.png

[staerker]

It looks like Thompson is no stranger to this game.

http://archive.is/p6g4l // https://www.mrc.org/articles/keeping-tabs-mark-thompson-new-york-times-cos-controversial-new-ceo


Thompson was top man at the BBC when the BBC’s “Newsnight” program produced and abruptly canceled a segment investigating accusations of pedophilia against the eccentric Savile. In death, Savile now stands accused of sexually abusing more than 300 women and underage girls. In December 2011, the BBC’s “Newsnight” prepared a report on the charges, but it was killed by higher-ups in the organization. The next week the BBC ran a series of tribute documentaries to Savile.

Thompson has admitted to being told about the cancellation at a party, though it’s unclear whether he was given the reason for the cancellation. And his account has shifted. Thompson initially said that he didn't know about either the abuse allegations against Savile, or of the “Newsnight” investigation, but later admitted that he had heard that the investigation had been stopped.

[scm]

your salty tears are yummy yummy good good Yay!!!

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.prestongroup.org/stuff/bananas.gif

Enjoy, Those aren't tears your tasting. (https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080711233259AA1aYow)

I think this thread need some THUMP truth

https://youtu.be/kSE-XoVKaXg

[Weston White]

Just as a though for consideration. Something that bothers me about this Planet Ping Pong thing is that the people associated with it through the Wikileak emails, they really do not seem the sort that I would consider to be such consumers of pizza or hot dogs or that would be playing so much ping pong.

[Weston White]

They can't compete so now they want someone to mediate the news.

802184813151133696

I fully agree. And that very authority shall be called "We the People."

[AuH20]

Just as a though for consideration. Something that bothers me about this Planet Ping Pong thing is that the people associated with it through the Wikileak emails, they really do not seem the sort that I would consider to be such consumers of pizza or hot dogs or that would be playing so much ping pong.

65,000 dollars of hot dogs and Chicago pizza were sent to the White House for an evening function. The only problem being that the White House kitchen is the sole dispenser of food for obvious security purposes. Vendors that provide raw materials to the WH kitchen are meticulously screened. Prepared food from outside the kitchen is forbidden.

[Danke]

Meet The Real "Fake News"


In its attempt to redirect the public's attention from its historic failure to deliver unbiased, objective, factual reporting in the context of the presidential election in which virtually every single mainstream media outlet was revealed (courtesy of the hacked Podesta emails) and acted as a Public Relations arm for the Clinton campaign, said media has opened a new can of worms by ushering in the topic of "fake news" - a purposefully vague, undefined term meant to deflect and scapegoat by "exposing" propaganda websites, which in the latest incarnation of the narrative, are now allegedly serving to further Russian propaganda in the US.

As we reported earlier, none other than the Washington Post - a company owned by Jeff Bezos, who for the past year has been involved in a famous media spat with president-elect Donald Trump - pounced on a list created by a website that was created (according to its whois profile) on August 21 using godaddy.com as registrar and had its first tweet on November 2, and which among others, lists Drudge Report and Zero Hedge as representatives of "Russian propaganda." This is how the "scientists" at the Goebbels-esque "PropOrNot" describe their qualifications in determining and recommending which websites are fit to be burned (starting with a plea for investigations by the Obama administration) in a post "fake news" world:


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-25/meet-real-fake-news

[staerker]

bump for CPUd


The failing New York Times (listed in OP) is pushing this story as fake.

This same (failing) New York Times?

Image 1:
http://archive.is/e9vdZ // https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/27/how-bbc-star-jimmy-savile-got-away-with-allegedely-abusing-500-children-and-sex-with-dead-bodies/

Image 2:
http://archive.is/yX4ra // http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-19808658

Image 3:
http://archive.is/tB41s // http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/10512203/Former-BBC-boss-Mark-Thompson-lied-over-Savile-evidence-Nick-Pollard-claims.html



https://i.sli.mg/oA4Xp3.png

[Jamesiv1]

As big as this thing appears to be, it seems the FBI could get someone to flip - isn't that how they crack big cases...?

[goldenequity]

NPR running interference...

NPR Interviews James Alefantis / Comet Pizza (http://www.npr.org/2016/11/27/503489400/fake-news-surge-pins-d-c-pizzeria-as-home-to-child-trafficking?sc=tw)

[enhanced_deficit]

Tried to lookup in MSM news and these are being called "fake news", can't make what the real story is beyond innuendo and some weird paintings and photos being cited by various blogs.

BTW, are these photos real/undoctored...anyone knows for certain?

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRhIz3Ch0efCpR1kBbJ_bNvNlkWrhUwF uUcQq0_ElmbdLCXIgE_sg6 days ago

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It's the Russians...


Foes of Russia Say Child Pornography Is Planted to Ruin Them

CAMBRIDGE, England — His indomitable will steeled by a dozen years in the Soviet gulag, decades of sparring with the K.G.B. and a bout of near fatal heart disease, Vladimir K. Bukovsky, a tireless opponent of Soviet leaders and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, is not a man easily put off his stride.

But he got knocked sideways when British police officers banged on the front door of his home on a sedate suburban street here early one morning while he lay sick in bed and informed him that they had “received information about forbidden images” in his possession.

“It was all very bizarre and disturbing,” Mr. Bukovsky said. “This is not normally the language of a free society,” he added, recalling how his old K.G.B. tormentors used to hound him and his friends over texts and photographs declared forbidden by the Soviet authorities.

The images sought by the British police, however, had nothing to do with politics but involved child pornography, a shocking offense in any jurisdiction. The officers hauled away a clunky desktop computer from Mr. Bukovsky’s study — a chaos of books and papers dusted with cigarette ash — and a broken computer from his garage.

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In April last year, the veteran Soviet dissident, a onetime confidant of Margaret Thatcher, finally found out what was going on: The Crown Prosecution Service announced that he faced five charges of making indecent images of children, five charges of possession of indecent images of children and one charge of possession of a prohibited image.

The case was supposed to go to court in May in Cambridge but, after Mr. Bukovsky, 73, entered a not-guilty plea it was delayed until Dec. 12. This followed a prosecution request for more time to review an independent forensic report on what had been found on Mr. Bukovsky’s computers and how an unidentified third party had probably put it there.

“The whole affair is Kafkaesque,” Mr. Bukovsky said in an interview. “You not only have to prove you are not guilty but that you are innocent.” He insisted that he was the victim of a new and particularly noxious form of an old K.G.B. dirty trick known as kompromat, the fabrication and planting of compromising or illegal material.

Old-style kompromat featured doctored photographs, planted drugs, grainy videos of liaisons with prostitutes hired by the K.G.B., and a wide range of other primitive entrapment techniques.

Today, however, kompromat has become allied with the more sophisticated tricks of cybermischief-making, where Russia has proved its prowess in the Baltic States, Georgia, Ukraine and, according to American intelligence officials, in the computers of the Democratic National Committee.

Russia’s cyberwarriors serve a multitude of goals, including espionage, the disruption of vital infrastructure — as happened in Ukraine last year when nearly a quarter of a million people lost electricity after a cyberattack on three regional energy companies — the discrediting of foes and the shaping of public opinion through the spread of false information.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/world/europe/vladimir-putin-russia-fake-news-hacking-cybersecurity.html?src=twr&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0


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