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Russia is targeting French, Dutch and German elections with fake news, EU task force warns
The Telegraph ^ | January 24, 2017 | Justin Huggler, Roland Oliphant

Posted on 01/24/2017 12:08:42 PM PST by Navy Patriot

Russia is seeking to influence the outcome of several key elections in European countries this year with fake news, a special task force set up by the European Union has warned.

The EU is reportedly allocating more funds to its East StratCom task force to counter the disinformation, amid fears Russia will target elections in France, Germany and the Netherlands

“There is an enormous, far-reaching, at least partly organized, disinformation campaign against the EU, its politicians and its principles,” a source close to the task force told Germany’s Spiegel magazine.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: globalist
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To: Navy Patriot

The Euronal elites are builing their excuses, either for their impending political losses or for clamping down on their populations. Suppression and repression have a long long history in Europe and have always been accompanied but constructed justifications and excuses from the Divine Right kings to the totalist dictators of more recent times.


21 posted on 01/24/2017 12:37:48 PM PST by arthurus
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To: 1rudeboy
How is reporting a threat fake news? How is making a threat fake news? The threat may be bluster or empty but it is made and a verbal or written threat.
22 posted on 01/24/2017 12:41:11 PM PST by arthurus
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To: Navy Patriot

Ah, yes . . . George Soros. Maybe the only man on the Planet who can make Vladi Putin curl into a fetal position on sight. Doesn’t say much about either of them.


23 posted on 01/24/2017 12:42:44 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: arthurus

Correct! Which is why one looks at who is making it.


24 posted on 01/24/2017 12:44:03 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: I want the USA back

The Democrats and the American MSM showed them what to do. Given that there is no constitutional concept of protected free speech in the European countries and given the 2000 year history of repression and totalist rule blaming of the Russians could be more ominous a development than it is here. The rulers there are in a much better position to act on their assertions.


25 posted on 01/24/2017 12:44:58 PM PST by arthurus
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To: Oratam

It won’t be long before MSNBC “repackages” itself, like RIA Novosti made itself Russia Today. (Or was it Sputnik?) There’s so much fake news out there nowadays, it’s difficult to keep track.


26 posted on 01/24/2017 12:45:58 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Navy Patriot

Ok, so the Russian’s have a Website, so?


27 posted on 01/24/2017 12:47:04 PM PST by The Toll
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To: arthurus
The Euronal elites are builing their excuses...

Uh oh, because you've misspelled "building", now I don't know if your word "Euronal" is a humorous way to pronounce European or just another mistake. You've got to get these things right. : )

 

28 posted on 01/24/2017 12:50:27 PM PST by Bronzewound (2016 GOP. A Timid Little Division Of The Democrat Party.)
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To: Navy Patriot

So the Facebook Live gang-rape in Sweden that they refuse to cover is fake?


29 posted on 01/24/2017 12:50:37 PM PST by The Toll
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To: The Toll
So the Facebook Live gang-rape in Sweden that they refuse to cover is fake?

Now you get it, if it was real it would be on Fakebook.

30 posted on 01/24/2017 12:58:57 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Navy Patriot

Merkel inviting a million Muslims to Germany is Fake News ?


31 posted on 01/24/2017 1:02:56 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: 1rudeboy

Do you seriously think a story that claims the EU wants to ban snowmen as racist is Russian propaganda which threatens European elections?

You’re either dumber than I thought or John Brennan.


32 posted on 01/24/2017 1:10:40 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Navy Patriot

What did everyone think was eventually going to happen on the internet?

Hacking, false news, texting obsession, lack of attention when driving, stalking pedophiles, name-calling, etc.

What’s with all this shock?


33 posted on 01/24/2017 1:13:36 PM PST by gandalftb (Go Seahawks!)
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To: mac_truck

No, it merely was one of the examples cited in the article. Perhaps something was lost upon you when you translated the information into Cyrillic?


34 posted on 01/24/2017 1:13:47 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Navy Patriot

this apparently is the last, weak card in the nwo/globalist deck being played.


35 posted on 01/24/2017 1:33:12 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 1rudeboy
No, it merely was one of the examples cited in the article.

Which you take seriously...good luck in retirement John boy.

37 posted on 01/24/2017 2:07:44 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

Perhaps it would be better if you reread the portion I posted. Slowly. Mouth out the words if you must.


38 posted on 01/24/2017 2:13:22 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Navy Patriot

They produce their own fake news and cover ups. They don’t need Russia.


39 posted on 01/24/2017 2:14:59 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Navy Patriot

Oh, you mean Germany hasn’t been invaded by slimes?


40 posted on 01/24/2017 2:17:04 PM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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