Washington Post Names Drudge, Zero Hedge, & Ron Paul As Anti-Clinton “Sophisticated Russian Propaganda Tools”

The desperate flailing of a mainstream-media struggling through the five stages of grief continues as no lesser unbiased foundation of the fourth estate than The Washington Post pushes ahead with its “fake news, blame the Russians” narrative for why their candidate failed so miserably.
Citing “two teams of independent researchers” who found “Russia’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery…echoed and amplified right-wing sites across the Internet as they portrayed Clinton as a criminal,” WaPo names Drudge, Zero Hedge, and The Ron Paul Institute among the “useful idiots” that true American patriots should be wary of.
‘The way that this propaganda apparatus supported Trump was equivalent to some massive amount of a media buy,’ said the executive director of PropOrNot, who spoke on the condition of anonymity with the Post. ‘It was like Russia was running a super PAC for Trump’s campaign.”
In the wake of the election, fake news and its spread on social media has come into the spotlight. President Obama denounced the attention garnered by false information last week, saying: ‘If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not … if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.’ And as The Hill reports, a sophisticated Russian propaganda effort helped fuel the spread of fake news during the election cycle, the Washington Post reported Thursday.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Nov 25, 2016.