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2017-03-09 Home Front: Politix

Why Russian Disinformation Doesn't Equate To Trump's 'Alternative Facts'

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-09 09:50|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Royal Vauxhall Tavern disinformation lesson for today. There will be a test:

It is too early in the Trump Presidency to say exactly why the new US administration has taken a hostile attitude to the media and why the President and his entourage have used phrases such as “fake news” or “alternative facts”. The very fact that they have chosen this route is a worrying phenomenon and it needs to be closely monitored by those who value freedom of speech and democratic values. It is recognised that President Trump has proposed some controversial policies on trade and immigration in particular.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-09 09:58|| 2017-03-09 09:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow the more a site claims integrity and truth the more likely it is to be stocked chock full of lies and liars.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-03-09 10:47|| 2017-03-09 10:47|| Front Page Top

#3 It is too early in the Trump Presidency to say exactly why the new US administration has taken a hostile attitude to the media...

Maybe because the media is reviled by so many in the country that it shares its polling numbers of trust with Congress and thus got Trump elected? /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-03-09 10:58|| 2017-03-09 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Wow the more a site claims integrity and truth the more likely it is to be stocked chock full of lies and liars. Posted by Bright Pebbles

I'm fairly certain your know the source BP.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-09 12:05|| 2017-03-09 12:05|| Front Page Top

#5 It is too early in the Trump Presidency to say exactly why the new US administration has taken a hostile attitude to the media

????????????

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-09 12:15|| 2017-03-09 12:15|| Front Page Top

#6 The punch line: Behind RT and Sputnik there are thousands of people employed in Russia in what have been nicknamed “troll factories”: people working together in large groups constantly to push out vast amounts of disinformation via social media. There is no equivalent to this in the USA, and herein lies the crucial difference between what Trump is doing and what Putin is doing.

Correct. Sort of. In the US of A, the disinformation campaign is led by the president's opponent, not the president, and the 'troll factories' work for the old-stream media or the new old-stream-media (Huffpoo, etc.) instead of RT.

Posted by Bobby 2017-03-09 13:44|| 2017-03-09 13:44|| Front Page Top

#7 It is too early in the Trump Presidency to say exactly why the new US administration has taken a hostile attitude to the media and why the President and his entourage have used phrases such as “fake news” or “alternative facts”.

YJCMTSU. "...exactly why..." Wow, just wow.

Posted by magpie 2017-03-09 23:14|| 2017-03-09 23:14|| Front Page Top

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