Posted on 09/07/2018 8:26:25 AM PDT by MNDude
"Or duped by a USC student, which is my theory. I ran the “essay” through https://t.co/DzkjwH5rSb. It popped as a 100% match to a USC student essay, turned in w/out citation-making it an original essay-sept 5-overachiever! Archived & submitted to the repository w/in minutes of NYT https://t.co/qg0VmywY6h This "
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Good Catch.
Has Mighty Cassandra “Buckheaded” The NYT?
We will see!
I was suspicious of the NYT editorial from the start and like others have said we need to verify this somehow.
Well, it’s a nothingburger either way. The fact that someone uploaded it “within minutes” of the NYT piece means it has zero significance.
It needs to be established whether this alleged piece by the UCLA student appeared before or after the NYT piece, and whether the date could be faked or altered. If the student’s article appeared after the NYT story, it is a nothing burger.
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Correct. And it shouldn’t have taken 27 posts on FR before the Freepers figured that out.
Thanks for your comment. It is spot on.
Here’s a good write-up about this:
https://conservativedailypost.com/was-the-times-duped-by-a-usc-student-to-run-hoax-op-ed/
I read that elsewhere as a possibility. Not ruling anyone out yet.
Ah yes, a variation of the ‘fake but accurate’ meme popularized by that imminent fraud, Dan Rather.
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Fiona Hill checks more boxes. See this twitter research.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3685902/posts
Thank you! If it had not been voluntary but the site had imposed it, that would be like Jews in pre-WW2 Germany having to wear the yellow armband.
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