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How Matt Drudge became the pipeline for Russian propaganda
Media Matters ^ | 9/20/2017 | MATT GERTZ

Posted on 09/21/2017 8:47:49 AM PDT by antidemoncrat

This was not an anomaly. Drudge has for years used his site as a web traffic pipeline for Russian propaganda sites, directing his massive audience to nearly 400 stories from RT.com and fellow Russian-government-run English-language news sites SputnikNews.com and TASS.com since the beginning of 2012, according to a Media Matters review. Those numbers spiked in 2016, when Drudge collectively linked to the three sites 122 times.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: drudgereport; mattdrudge; mediamatters; searchworks
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1 posted on 09/21/2017 8:47:49 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: antidemoncrat

LOL. OK, Media Matters.


2 posted on 09/21/2017 8:49:02 AM PDT by ItsOnlyDaryl
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To: antidemoncrat

Here we go.
I’m surprised it took this long to try dragging Matt’s name through this mud-pit.
David Brock is not the epitome of credibility he still thinks he is. How’s that for an understatement?


3 posted on 09/21/2017 8:50:19 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: antidemoncrat

The Eighties calling again...


4 posted on 09/21/2017 8:53:35 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: antidemoncrat

These MM morons haven’t noticed that Drudge’s site is just a long list of news sources from all over and even includes their own lefty and far lefty news links?


5 posted on 09/21/2017 8:54:04 AM PDT by piasa
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To: antidemoncrat

As opposed to American government propaganda outlets like NPR and PBS. Actually, I find RT to be a lot more reliable than NPR.


6 posted on 09/21/2017 8:54:59 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: antidemoncrat

Over that same time frame, how many links did Drudge publish to funnel web traffic to biased and phony articles and ‘fake news’ published by US-based, leftist-infested propaganda outlets such as the Washington Post, New York Times, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek, Politico, the Obama White House and Obamunists in general, Salon, Slate, etc.?


7 posted on 09/21/2017 8:55:00 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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Media Matters: Ground Zero for Fake News and targeting companies and people for elimination.
Drudge is now being targeted.


8 posted on 09/21/2017 8:55:57 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zeppo

There you go, using logic, which is just a version of white supremacy. And it is racist.


9 posted on 09/21/2017 8:56:11 AM PDT by odawg (WAE2 0)
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To: antidemoncrat

F&%k phony ass MattieIf he isn’t shilling for Russians (total Bull Shiite) he does shill for lil Paulie Mitch and Schumer. Haven’t read his page in months and I’m not going back.


10 posted on 09/21/2017 8:56:58 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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“...US-based, leftist-infested propaganda outlets such as the Washington Post, New York Times, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek, Politico, the Obama White House and Obamunists in general, Salon, Slate,...”

Hell pravda or RT.com are more reliable than any of them.


11 posted on 09/21/2017 8:57:02 AM PDT by budj (Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!)
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Where are Moose and Squirrel?


12 posted on 09/21/2017 8:57:09 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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This always goes to the same place with these idiots. Russia shouldn’t have TV!!!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaah!


13 posted on 09/21/2017 8:58:45 AM PDT by The Toll
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2016, when Drudge collectively linked to the three sites 122 times.

So... about 41 times each... for all of 2016... so about once every 9 days, he would link to each webpage... while linking dozens of others every day, including sources from all over the world.

The insanity of Left-think is getting noticed.

14 posted on 09/21/2017 8:59:21 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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pravda matters


15 posted on 09/21/2017 9:00:01 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: antidemoncrat

One of the premier leftist propaganda sites, Media Matters, complaining about what they perceive as propaganda sites. Nothing ironic about that.


16 posted on 09/21/2017 9:05:34 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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James alefantis threatened to make public financial indescretions by David Brock.

Brock had to sell one of his homes to raise hush money to make the threat go away.

they were weirdo lib homosexual lovers.

They might both have been pizza connoisseurs.


17 posted on 09/21/2017 9:07:25 AM PDT by gaijin
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Russia is experiencing a revival of Christianity and the orthodox church there appears to growing and all of the sudden Russia is Enemy #1.... hmmm....


18 posted on 09/21/2017 9:24:24 AM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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Yahooie uses huffpo constantly for their “content”, so?


19 posted on 09/21/2017 9:25:10 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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>Drudge has for years used his site as a web traffic pipeline for Russian American propaganda sites, directing his massive audience to nearly 400 numerous stories from RT ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC.com... <
20 posted on 09/21/2017 9:26:43 AM PDT by ex91B10
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