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WaPo story quickly falls apart after investigation of power grid hack


Posted: Dec 31, 2016

Go ahead, diss infowars. More information about the fake WaPo story will be forthcoming shortly. Please, libs, let's stop the fear mongering. It doesn't do anyone any good! Happy New Year! Peace and Love!;

WaPo busted for fake news about Russian hack on power grid. - The only problem, the grid wasn't hacked.

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These people are trying to head us to another Cold War. This fake news stuff is dividing us even further and endangering America.

People around the DC area have been calling - WaPo "Pravda on the Potomac"

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for at least 25 years!

For younger MTs here, that was the old Soviet Union's propaganda news. It's changed in recently years though.

MSM’s true colors showing...

I hate lies and I hate the liars even more. I heard this - presented as fact on the early

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morning radio shows.

There should be consequences for lying. Bad ones. If there were any justice there would be.

From now on, I'm going to view these stories with a Dan Rather alert. You know him, the CBS reporter who was caught making up fake news.

A big problem is the millennials who are used to instant - gratification and no longer bother

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to trust but verify if it suits a political end. We have Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

The Spanish-American War was started by the press. - Yellow Journalism, it presents

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little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering or sensationalism.

Bottom line, based on a US propaganda report by WaPo - and the MSM, they reported a

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completely fake story without any fact checking whatsoever, which as it turns out, was that a SINGLE laptop at a Vermont utility that wasn't connected to their grid was infected with a common piece of malware written in Russia that is distributed by many different hackers, but was described by U.S. officials as "Russia hacked the U.S. electric grid".

WaPo reported this bogus "Russia hacked the U.S. electric grid" story without any further fact checking.

If anyone ever had any notion that the Washington Post might somehow be more credible than, say The National Enquirer, think again!

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