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

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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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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