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Beyond BuzzFeed: The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing U.S. Media Failures on the Trump-Russia Story

The most challenging task is choosing the 10 worst embarrassments. The most notable aspect is that they all go toward promoting the same narrative.
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10. On June 12, 2017, Fortune claimed that RT had hacked into and taken over C-SPAN and that C-SPAN “confirmed” it had been hacked. The whole story was false:

9. On December 30, 2016, the Washington Post reported that “Russian hackers penetrated the U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont,” to deny residents heat during the winter.

8. A New, Deranged, Anonymous Group Declares Mainstream Political Sites on the Left and Right to be Russian Propaganda Outlets and WashPost Touts its Report to Claim Massive Kremlin Infiltration of the Internet (WashPost).

7. On June 22, 2017, CNN reported that Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci was involved with the Russian Direct Investment Fund, under Senate investigation. He was not.

6. On September 11, 2017, NBC News and MSNBC widely reported a claim from its notorious CIA puppet Ken Dilanian that Russia was behind a series of dastardly attacks on U.S. personnel at the Embassy in Cuba using a sonic or microwave weapon so sophisticated and cunning that Pentagon and CIA scientists had no idea what to make of it.

5. Trump created a secret Internet server to covertly communicate with a Russian Bank (Slate).

4. On November 27, 2018, the Guardian published a major “bombshell” that Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort had somehow managed to sneak inside one of the world’s most surveilled buildings, the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and visit Julian Assange on three different occasions and nobody noticed. Cable and online commentators exploded.

3. On July 27, 2018, CNN published that Michael Cohen was prepared to tell Robert Mueller that President Trump knew in advanced about the Trump Tower meeting. First, CNN got caught blatantly lying, that one of Cohen’s attorneys, Lanny Davis, was its source and second, numerous other outlets retracted the story after the source, Davis, admitted it was a lie.

2. Robert Mueller possesses internal emails and witness interviews proving Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress (BuzzFeed).

1. Donald Trump Jr was offered advanced access to Wikileaks email archive (CNN.MSNBC)

The morning of December 9, 2017, launched one of the most humiliating spectacles in the history of the U.S. media. With a tone so grave and bombastic that it is impossible to overstate, CNN went on the air and announced a major exclusive: Donald Trump, Jr. was offered by email advanced access to the trove of DNC and Podesta emails published by WikiLeaks – meaning before those emails were made public. Within an hour, MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian, using a tone somehow even more unhinged, purported to have “independently confirmed” this mammoth, blockbuster scoop, which, they said, would have been the smoking gun showing collusion between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks over the hacked emails (while the YouTube clips have been removed, you can still watch one of the amazing MSNBC videos in article).

There was, alas, just one small problem with this massive, blockbuster story: it was totally and completely false. The email which Trump, Jr. received that directed him to the WikiLeaks archive was sent after WikiLeaks published it online for the whole world to see, not before. Rather than some super secretive operative giving Trump, Jr. advanced access, as both CNN and MSNBC told the public for hours they had confirmed, it was instead just some totally pedestrian message from a random member of the public suggesting Trump, Jr. review documents the whole world was already talking about. All of the anonymous sources CNN and MSNBC cited somehow all got the date of the email wrong.

To date, when asked how they both could have gotten such a massive story so completely wrong in the same way, both CNN and MSNBC have adopted the posture of the CIA by maintaining complete silence and refusing to explain how it could possibly be that all of their “multiple, independent sources” got the date wrong on the email in the same way, to be as incriminating – and false – as possible. Nor, needless to say, will they identify their sources who, in concert, fed them such inflammatory and utterly false information.

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The Only Way To Fight Disinformation Is To Fight Political Censorship

The surest way to kill a democracy is to practice political censorship under the guise of protecting society from disinformation.
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Political censorship creates deep dysfunction in society. In fact, the surest way to kill a democracy is to practice political censorship under the guise of protecting society from disinformation.

Censorship causes disinformation. It’s the grandaddy of disinformation, not a solution to it.

Whenever a self-anointed elite sets up a Ministry of Truth, the link between censorship and disinformation becomes clear. Before long, they invent reality and punish anyone who expresses a different viewpoint.

Of course elites do not want us even entertaining the possibility that we can be manipulated or vulnerable to social and psychological pressures. Propagandists are illusionists by nature. If their illusion falls apart, then the game is over for them.

This is why they depend so heavily on the slur “conspiracy theorist” to distract us from the truth and from their use of censorship to cut us off from other ideas.
 
Corporate/national security state censorship operation NewsGuardRating is preparing to blacklist several independent media sites.

Board of advisors: Anders Fogg Rasmussen, former NATO Secretary General who presided over regime change war in Libya.
Michael Hayden, former C I A and N S A director who oversaw growth of secret torture and mass surveillance programs in partnership with Dick Cheney, Richard Stengel (self-proclaimed "chief propagandist" of the State Dept.
Arne Duncan, former sec of Education.
Tom Ridge who worked with Bush to keep people in line with his "war on terror"
john Battelle, co-founder of Wired which exists as clearing house for mil intell and launched with seed money from Epstein's beneficiary Nicolas Negroponte.

Partners with Pentagon, the Department of State, Microsoft, German Marshall Fund and WHO.

Newsguard is "deeply connected to the U.S. government, neoconservatives and powerful monied interests... working overtime since the 2016 election to silence dissent to American forever-wars and corporate-led oligarchy."

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How a NeoCon-Backed “Fact Checker” Plans to Wage War on Independent Media

Newsguard, the internet news "fact checker" has deep connections to the US government and silicon valley, and it's going after independent media.
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