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Exclusive: FBI tracked 'fake news' believed to be from Russia on Election Day
CNN Breaking News ^ | 8/04/2017 | Shimon Prokupecz, Pamela Brown and Evan Perez

Posted on 08/04/2017 1:52:22 PM PDT by Cementjungle

Washington (CNN)The FBI monitored social media on Election Day last year in an effort to track a suspected Russian disinformation campaign utilizing "fake news," CNN has learned.

In the months leading up to Election Day, Twitter and Facebook were the feeding grounds for viral "news" stories floating conspiracies and hoaxes, many aimed at spreading negative false claims about Hillary Clinton.

"Are you kidding?" that official recalled saying to others at the White House as they celebrated a successful election. "What they did worked!"

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bho44; cnn; fakenews; russia; russia2016election; trump; trump2016; trumprussia
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CNN's weekly fake news theme to set the tone for the weekend.

Essentially, despite all the aid from the censors at Twitter, Facebook, etc. bad stuff still managed to circulate about Hillary. Naturally, any bad stuff about Hillary HAD to be fake news, and it must have come from America's enemies.

1 posted on 08/04/2017 1:52:22 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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“CNN has learned”

no need to read any further ...


2 posted on 08/04/2017 1:55:44 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Cementjungle

Yes, because hilLIAR and podesta et al are such fine upstanding citizens, clearly worthy to lead the Nation and keep its secrets

Had to be the Russians . . .who else would be so evil to deny Millennials, feminists and homosexuals their Historic Goddess


3 posted on 08/04/2017 1:55:54 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! Boycott Mex/Can, nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg'sB)
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To: Cementjungle
Image result for cnn fake news
4 posted on 08/04/2017 1:56:44 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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lol....remember the 2000 election when idiot voters in Florida didn’t know how to properly fill out the ballots and vote for algore??? remember the media claiming it was the ballots fault and not the idiot voters who filled out the ballots incorrectly???

now its the fault of fake news spread by russians- not the idiots who fell for the fake news...

typical liberals- its always someone elses fault...


5 posted on 08/04/2017 1:57:47 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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Russia was in the polling biz? Who knew?


6 posted on 08/04/2017 1:58:43 PM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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4 morons from CNN to author another fake news ‘breaking news’? Lol.


7 posted on 08/04/2017 1:59:42 PM PDT by Lent
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> false claims about Hillary Clinton

Like photos of her being hauled up stairs? Nope that’s false. Pay no attention to all her appearances being retrofitted with ramps.

Like she’s not sick? For months she routinely suffered 5 minute coughing fits and MSM said questions about her health are false. That excuse was blown out of the water at the 9/11 Memorial.

The only false claims about Clinton are those made by CNN.


8 posted on 08/04/2017 2:01:21 PM PDT by Ray76 (Nuke The Sewer - vote out ALL Republicans)
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Fake News reporting on Fake News?

Does that make it real news...

...or really Fake News?


9 posted on 08/04/2017 2:02:37 PM PDT by Eddie01
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Hmmmm, lets see, who would get their news from Facebook? 90% of Bernie Sanders supporters?


10 posted on 08/04/2017 2:02:59 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: God luvs America
Even Florida 2000 was fake news to cover that Gore lost because he couldn't win his or Clinton's home states. If Gore won Tennessee or Arkansas, what happened in Florida wouldn't have mattered.

-PJ

11 posted on 08/04/2017 2:03:23 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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Faking nhews


12 posted on 08/04/2017 2:03:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Bill Clinton and Al Gore took illegal campaign contributions from the Chi-Coms and 'nobody' cared..)
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Ya mean- HRC really didn’t have a private server and didn’t really destroy emails? It was all Russian Fake News?


13 posted on 08/04/2017 2:05:35 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: Eddie01

Is that like a double negative?


14 posted on 08/04/2017 2:06:53 PM PDT by arthurus
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As opposed to the CNN news that Hillary was winning in a cakewalk?


15 posted on 08/04/2017 2:07:06 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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So, the Obama White House was celebrating on election day?


16 posted on 08/04/2017 2:07:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.))
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Even if true (and I certainly don’t concede that)....sooooo what? Facebook isn’t on the public airwaves, and unless I’m grossly mistaken, its a WORLDWIDE platform. I could probably find every opinion under the sun on Facebook...and there’s nothing our should can (or should) do about it.


17 posted on 08/04/2017 2:07:37 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: Cementjungle

More CNN FAKE NEWS about imaginary fake news from unspecified but made up fake “sources”. Well, another Friday at CNN.


18 posted on 08/04/2017 2:08:00 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: arthurus

Troubling isn’t it.


19 posted on 08/04/2017 2:08:08 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: fuente

“Russia was in the polling biz? Who knew?”

LOL

Here is the Russian polling business..

“CNN 2016 Election Center”

http://www.cnn.com/election


20 posted on 08/04/2017 2:10:13 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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