Posted on 12/17/2016 7:39:40 AM PST by Vigilanteman
The Patriot News Agency website popped up in July, soon after it became clear that Donald J. Trump would win the Republican presidential nomination, bearing a logo of a red, white and blue eagle and the motto “Built by patriots, for patriots.”
Tucked away on a corner of the site, next to links for Twitter and YouTube, is a link to another social media platform that most Americans have never heard of: VKontakte, the Russian equivalent of Facebook. It is a clue that Patriot News, like many sites that appeared out of nowhere and pumped out pro-Trump hoaxes tying his opponent Hillary Clinton to Satanism, pedophilia and other conspiracies, is actually run by foreigners based overseas.
But while most of those others seem be the work of young, apolitical opportunists cashing in on a conservative appetite for viral nonsense, operators of Patriot News had an explicitly partisan motivation: getting Mr. Trump elected.
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How can these jay-birds publish tripe like this and run with the slogan of "serious journalism"?
NYT.
Heh.
How are you folks using those multiple empty floors on your soon to be completely abandoned building?
Russians are white, Christians, and heterosexuals.
No wonder the American Left has made them the new Deplorables.
Trump should partner with Putin to end the madness in Syria. Then repatriate the Muslims to their homelands.
Who believes the Times?
And I thought globalism was a good thing?
Has the NYet Times ever come clean about the Soviet’s use of gulags and genocide under Stalin?
Its Putin’s fault Russia supports conservatives.
No one on the Left minded when Soviet leaders backed Communism.
Its not even like a Conservatern is being run from Moscow.
How did the Russians convince the MSM to start calling out Republican victories as “Red States”? This Commie plot has been brewing since 2000!
Do they censor posts and push liberal fakenews as "trending"?
Or might they become a viable alternative to Fascistbook/Fakebook?
The pink journalists have had a hissyfit against Russia since the Olympics when they got upset that men couldn’t encourage young boys to become homosexuals.
Left is in their Russia Two Minute Hate.
Then they’ll move on to something else.
These people are completely predictable.
"DEAR HILLARY, No need for ground effort campaigning in Michigan, everything is good here, go to Beverly Hills and raise more funds instead..."
Trump won because of a blog that no one’s ever heard of.
Open up MacLean’s Magazine from Canada or the BBC from the UK, or Le Monde from France.
Didn’t recall myself getting all salty because those rags and sources were bashing Trump and promoting Hillary.
I just stopped looking at them.
And if asked “what if Trump steps down”, they will tell you how much even worse Pence would be.
Wait, the BBC is funded by the British government. Was the British government trying to influence the outcome of the American election?
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