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How a Putin Fan Overseas Pushed Pro-Trump Propaganda to Americans


From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 11:34:57 -0500




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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
Date: December 17, 2016 at 11:10:43 AM EST
To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
Subject: [ NNSquad ] How a Putin Fan Overseas Pushed Pro-Trump Propaganda to Americans


How a Putin Fan Overseas Pushed Pro-Trump Propaganda to Americans

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/world/europe/russia-propaganda-elections.html?_r=0

     Tucked away on a corner of the site, next to links for Twitter
   and YouTube, is a link to another social media platform that
   most Americans have never heard of: VKontakte, the Russian
   equivalent of Facebook. It is a clue that Patriot News, like
   many sites that appeared out of nowhere and pumped out
   pro-Trump hoaxes tying his opponent Hillary Clinton to
   Satanism, pedophilia and other conspiracies, is actually run
   by foreigners based overseas. But while most of those others
   seem be the work of young, apolitical opportunists cashing in
   on a conservative appetite for viral nonsense, operators of
   Patriot News had an explicitly partisan motivation:  getting
   Mr. Trump elected. Patriot News -- whose postings were viewed
   and shared tens of thousands of times in the United States --
   is among a constellation of websites run out of the United
   Kingdom that are linked to James Dowson, a far-right political
   activist who advocated Britain's exit from the European Union
   and is a fan of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. A vocal
   proponent of Christian nationalist, anti-immigrant movements
   in Europe, Mr. Dowson, 52, has spoken at a conference of
   far-right leaders in Russia and makes no secret of his hope
   that Mr. Trump will usher in an era of rapprochement with Mr.
   Putin.

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--Lauren--




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