Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia

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29. Pot-stirring, concern trolling and deflection in one insipid article!

Of course we need to continue to exercise careful skepticism about news... that's a requirement of being an informed electorate. However, I find it much more telling that the specific 'fake news' the Vox piece identifies as problematic is "anti-Trump" fake news. However it is in fact the Jackpine Radical types of the ostensibly Democratic side who have internalized fake news - in their case, largely anti-Hillary news - and this author chooses not to address the disproportionate, vote-splitting threat that sort of Cambridge Analytica/Breitbart microtargeted fake news was for the Democrats in November 2016. Instead, he argues that excited talk and unverifiable news items that cast Trump in a vulnerable or treasonous light are an existential threat to Democrats.

We all have our own critical filters, and our own biases... but it is the undeniable facts that now has members of Congress using the I-word, has resulted in multiple investigations of Trump associates, and has seen the appointment of an 'elder scion' as Special Counsel to investigate his ties to Russia.

The flaw in the Vox piece is that it ignores the preponderance of truth, not fake news, that compels further investigation, and provokes the further vulnerability, of Trump.