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4Chan Claims To Have Fabricated Anti-Trump Report As A Hoax
Zero Hedge ^ | 1/10/2017 | By Tyler Durdin

Posted on 01/10/2017 7:07:52 PM PST by Lazamataz

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To: Elsie

Thanks, he states in his bio he stopped being a republican in 2016! Wonder if he and Beck have a “special connection”?

Personal details
Born David Evan McMullin
April 2, 1976 (age 40)
Provo, Utah, U.S.
Political party Republican (Before 2016)
Independent (2016–present)
Alma mater Brigham Young University
University of Pennsylvania
Religion The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Website Campaign website


261 posted on 01/11/2017 2:35:24 PM PST by Grampa Dave (The deadliest Islamic terror cell America has ever faced is leaving office, 20 Jan 2017!)
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To: Yaelle


We did this in undergrad psych class. Started a rumor and actually counted the campus distance and time it took to spread.”

Sounds like what Sheldon and Amy did onetime on the Big Bang Theory and measured how fast the rumor spread via social media/Facebook.


262 posted on 01/11/2017 2:38:04 PM PST by Grampa Dave (The deadliest Islamic terror cell America has ever faced is leaving office, 20 Jan 2017!)
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To: WatchungEagle
No, I mean the Soviets dropped false information (disinformation) into the 'news reporting community' so that major newspapers and TV networks would pick it up and run with it.

The Soviets purpose was to use "Big Media" to discredit their enemies.

4chan's purpose was to use Big Media to discredit Big Media.

Both use the method of chumming the waters with disinformation so that Big Media would pick it up.

263 posted on 01/11/2017 2:38:08 PM PST by NorthMountain (Northmountain)
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To: Candor7

They had to have known it was false. They ran with it anyway.


264 posted on 01/11/2017 2:56:45 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: theoilpainter; Bushbacker1

H/t bushbacker1

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3512801/posts?page=73#73


265 posted on 01/11/2017 4:23:34 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Grampa Dave

It’s quite interesting to do this. And it always spreads faster than you think. There was no Facebook when I was in college. Gasp, no internet either!


266 posted on 01/11/2017 5:26:03 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: theoilpainter; true believer forever

H/t true believer forever

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3512801/posts?page=1#1

Ties it allllll together.


267 posted on 01/11/2017 5:31:33 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Whenifhow; true believer forever

Middlemen between Wilson and the C I A are

McMullin

McCain

F B I

See the “how it happened” box in this graphic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3512801/posts?page=1#1

H/t true believer forever


268 posted on 01/11/2017 5:37:42 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Elsie

LOL!! Rather Dan what?


269 posted on 01/11/2017 5:45:52 PM PST by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: WildHighlander57

Middlemen between Wilson and the C I A are

McMullin

McCain

F B I

See the “how it happened” box in this graphic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3512801/posts?page=1#1

H/t true believer forever

***
Thanks - that graphic has been posted on many threads and thanks for pointing out the players.

Ping on that thread is here.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3512801/posts?page=157#157


270 posted on 01/11/2017 6:54:34 PM PST by Whenifhow
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
The Stygian stables need to be powerwashed.

I think you mean the "Augean" stables, bur "Herakles" is coming...eight days now....

271 posted on 01/11/2017 11:29:35 PM PST by thulldud
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To: Lazamataz; hoosiermama

Hoosiermama here’s the thread I was talking about.


272 posted on 01/11/2017 11:41:13 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: Grampa Dave


...the presidential campaign of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in 1844: “Challenging Democrat James Polk and Whig Henry Clay, Smith prophesied that if the U.S. Congress did not accede to his demands that ‘they shall be broken up as a government and God shall damn them.’

Smith viewed capturing the presidency as part of the mission of the church.

273 posted on 01/12/2017 3:09:57 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Grampa Dave
Sounds like what Sheldon and Amy did onetime on the Big Bang Theory and measured how fast the rumor spread via social media/Facebook.


Revelation 8:13
Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in midheaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!"

274 posted on 01/12/2017 3:15:44 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: NorthMountain

“If it bleeds; it leads.”

Note that NOTHING about ‘accuracy’ is mentioned.


275 posted on 01/12/2017 3:16:43 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: thulldud
Dang!

At first glance I thought it said her ankles!


276 posted on 01/12/2017 3:22:43 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Lazamataz

I am kind of familiar with 4chan.

But this is incredible. I believe he made this up, well he, she or they, whoever 4chan is.

And the media fell for it Hook Line & Sinker. Well, Buzzfeed (got off their mailing list today) and CNN.

Sorry for the caps; on a tablet and my family is waiting for me.


277 posted on 01/12/2017 6:04:08 PM PST by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: Yaelle
"A lie can get halfway around the world in the time it takes the truth to get its pants on."

Mark Twain

278 posted on 01/12/2017 6:38:08 PM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It wastes time.)
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