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Bev54

(13,431 posts)
Thu Mar 7, 2024, 02:42 PM Mar 2024

Russia has a Spate of Mock News sites online to look like local news sites and spread disinformation

Article by the New York Times:

~Into the depleted field of journalism in America, a handful of websites have appeared in recent weeks with names suggesting a focus on news close to home: D.C. Weekly, the New York News Daily, the Chicago Chronicle and a newer sister publication, the Miami Chronicle.
In fact, they are not local news organizations at all. They are Russian creations, researchers and government officials say, meant to mimic actual news organizations to push Kremlin propaganda by interspersing it among an at-times odd mix of stories about crime, politics and culture.~
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Be careful what you are reading and quoting in this day and age.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/media/russia-us-news-sites.html
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Russia has a Spate of Mock News sites online to look like local news sites and spread disinformation (Original Post) Bev54 Mar 2024 OP
We DO need to be vigilant..I wonder about NYT ...also asiliveandbreathe Mar 2024 #1
Yes saw that Meidas touch video, haven't heard all that much in MSM. Bev54 Mar 2024 #2

asiliveandbreathe

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1. We DO need to be vigilant..I wonder about NYT ...also
Thu Mar 7, 2024, 02:58 PM
Mar 2024

Newsweek..it is almost like they throw Dems a bone on one hand..and try to take down President Biden on the other..trying to have it both ways??..or this, drop a story ..like Mike Johnsons russian ties..and then, the story gets buried..look over here when Johnson talks about decorum..or defund the FBI..big news..does this give cover to Johnson's view on IVF..like

Speaker Mike Johnson was recently asked about his thoughts on IVF treatments, specifically whether Johnson, who believes life begins at conception, considers embryos destroyed during the IVF process to be murder. His answer was stunning..

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/mike-johnson-questions-the-legality-of-ivf-treatments

Thanks for posting..

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