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    Even Vox Admits: ‘Democrats Are Falling For Fake News About Russia’

    An article published at the progressive website Vox argues Democrats and liberals are falling victim to fake news and conspiracy theories about Russia.
    The piece, written by Zack Beauchamp, claims that “liberal conspiracy theories are flourishing in the age of Trump.”

    The article claims that liberals and Democrats are increasingly falling for stories related to Russia that are not true.
    The author also writes that Russia conspiracism “risks degrading the Democratic Party — helping elevate shameless hucksters who know nothing about policy but are willing to spread misinformation in the service of gaining power.”
    One idea mentioned by Beauchamp is the existence of a “Russiasphere,” or the Twitter-fueled concentration of theories about Russia and President Donald Trump. Some big figures in the “Russiasphere” are Louise Mensch, John Schindler and Claude Taylor.
    Louise Mensch is a “conservative” journalist who has made a name for herself on the internet for promoting theories about nefarious Russian influence.
    Mensch once claimed that the late Andrew Breitbart, founder of influential Breitbart News, was killed by Vladimir Putin.

    http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/19/ev...-about-russia/
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    TDS blinds people to objectivity. As long as the story contains Trump, they will believe anything, anything at all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by resister View Post
    TDS blinds people to objectivity. As long as the story contains Trump, they will believe anything, anything at all.
    amen to that
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    Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia

    Now, let's hope the Trump-hating alt-left can finally see that they are being taken for a ride on the fake news train.

    Why liberal conspiracy theories are flourishing in the age of Trump.

    President Donald Trump is about to resign as a result of the Russia scandal. Bernie Sanders and Sean Hannity are Russian agents. The Russians have paid off House Oversight Chair Jason Chaffetz to the tune of $10 million, using Trump as a go-between. Paul Ryan is a traitor for refusing to investigate Trump’s Russia ties. Libertarian heroine Ayn Rand was a secret Russian agent charged with discrediting the American conservative movement.

    These are all claims you can find made on a new and growing sector of the internet that functions as a fake news bubble for liberals, something I’ve dubbed the Russiasphere. The mirror image of Breitbart and InfoWars on the right, it focuses nearly exclusively on real and imagined connections between Trump and Russia. The tone is breathless: full of unnamed intelligence sources, certainty that Trump will soon be imprisoned, and fever dream factual assertions that no reputable media outlet has managed to confirm.

    Twitter is the Russiasphere’s native habitat. Louise Mensch, a former right-wing British parliamentarian and romance novelist, spreads the newest, punchiest, and often most unfounded Russia gossip to her 283,000 followers on Twitter. Mensch is backed up by a handful of allies, including former NSA spook John Schindler (226,000 followers) and DC-area photographer Claude Taylor (159,000 followers).

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    Yes they are, btw I posted this already Jez
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Yes they are, btw I posted this already Jez
    Damn it!

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