Putin's influence

[cnelsen]

Putin said he got the idea to use fake news to influence the election one day while watching CNN.

h/t
Ann Coulter ‏@AnnCoulter

 

[Wyatt earp]

Putin said he got the idea to use fake news to influence the election one day while watching CNN.

h/t
Ann Coulter ‏@AnnCoulter

Putin and Russia has been doing that in coutries for a long time now, just like the U.S. State department from Eisenhower to Obama.


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[Wyatt earp]

Some examples



For example, in the run-up to the1980 West German elections, the Soviet Union’s KGB spread fabricated stories that connected CDU leader Franz-Josef Strauss with far-right elements in the German intelligence services. A decade earlier, the KGB leaked false documents tying senior figures in various Pakistani parties to political murders and to pre-1948 opposition to the creation of Pakistan.

The United States has engaged in a few dirty tricks as well. In the 1958 Japanese election, the United States gave the Liberal-Democratic Party damaging political intelligence on its main rival, the Socialists. The CIA acquired it from paid informants within the Socialist Party. In the 1990 Nicaraguan elections, the United States leaked damaging information on alleged Sandinista corruption and Swiss bank accounts, funneling the information to German newspapers. The Nicaraguan opposition then used these German media reports to great effect.

 

[cnelsen]

Putin said he got the idea to use fake news to influence the election one day while watching CNN.

h/t
Ann Coulter ‏@AnnCoulter

Putin has been doing that in coutries for a long time now, just like the U.S. State department from Eisenhower to Obama.


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I think Eisenhower was more of a Fox News guy.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Putin said he got the idea to use fake news to influence the election one day while watching CNN.

h/t
Ann Coulter ‏@AnnCoulter

Putin has been doing that in coutries for a long time now, just like the U.S. State department from Eisenhower to Obama.


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I think Eisenhower was more of a Fox News guy.

And that deflection means what exactly?

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[cnelsen]

Putin said he got the idea to use fake news to influence the election one day while watching CNN.

h/t
Ann Coulter ‏@AnnCoulter

Putin has been doing that in coutries for a long time now, just like the U.S. State department from Eisenhower to Obama.


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I think Eisenhower was more of a Fox News guy.

And that deflection means what exactly?

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just a joke.