Posted on 12/15/2017 6:28:17 PM PST by son of terrence
A new example on Thursday was The New York Times’ statement that a Russian agency “spent $100,000 on [Facebook’s] platform to influence the United States presidential election last year” – when the Times knows that statement is not true.
According to Facebook, only 44 percent of that amount appeared before the U.S. presidential election in 2016 (i.e., $44,000) and few of those ads addressed the actual election. And, we know that the Times is aware of the truth because it was acknowledged in a Times article in early October.
As part of that article, Times correspondents Mike Isaac and Scott Shane reported that the ads also covered a wide range of other topics: “There was even a Facebook group for animal lovers with memes of adorable puppies that spread across the site with the help of paid ads.”
As nefarious as the Times may think it is for Russians to promote a Facebook page about “adorable puppies,” the absurdity of that concern – and the dishonesty of the Times then “forgetting” what it itself reported just two months ago about the timing and contents of these “Russian-linked ads” – tells you a great deal about Russia-gate.
On Thursday, the Times chose to distort what it already knew to be true presumably because it didn’t want to make the $100,000 ad buy (which is not a particularly large sum) look even smaller and less significant by acknowledging the pre-election total was less than half that modest amount – and even that total had little to do with the election.
Why would the Times lie? Because to tell the truth would undercut the narrative of evil Russians defeating Hillary Clinton and putting Donald Trump in the White House – the core narrative of Russia-gate.
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Yeah, Baby...perjury trap!
Apparently the crowned heads of the Republican Party don’t want the crowned heads of the Democrat Party to suffer any consequences for their lawlessness.
As if any of the commie scum would tell the truth even under oath.....
Yes, sadly. Don’t ask the question, if you don’t want to answer.
Total narrative is bogus and we can end this by demanding testimony. Then we can turn the tables.
Under oath and then polygraph test then trial if warranted and prison if convicted. Maybe take a page from the democRAT playbook and destroy their reputation first just for insurance.
That is a frighteningly disturbing story. Now anyone that agrees with any policy of the evil Russians is deemed an “unwitting agent” and a puppet of Putin.
so sick of the patsy white old men we have in congress....wimps and liars imo...
Congress is not empowered to do criminal investigations.
They’ll just lie. It’s what they do.
“...Apparently the crowned heads of the Republican Party don’t want the crowned heads of the Democrat Party to suffer any consequences for their lawlessness....”
They all belong to the same beholden party: The UniParty
And they’re not gonna let anything happen to any of their own....they’re outright evil.
Trump should declare a temporary martial law. Just to get things all sorted out. It’s that bad right now
A new example on Thursday was The New York Times’ statement that a Russian agency “spent $100,000 on [Facebook’s] platform to influence the United States presidential election last year” – when the Times knows that statement is not true. According to Facebook, only 44 percent of that amount appeared before the U.S. presidential election in 2016 (i.e., $44,000) and few of those ads addressed the actual election. And, we know that the Times is aware of the truth because it was acknowledged in a Times article in early October.
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