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DetlefK

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Mon Jan 2, 2017, 08:05 AM Jan 2017

Russia Today quoting Ann Coulter to attack WaPo as "fake news"

https://www.rt.com/usa/372448-washingtonpost-retracts-russian-hackers/

FACT!

The Washington Post wrote that russian hackers had hacked the electric grid of Vermont!

But that was wrong!

They only hacked a laptop owned by that company, not the grid itself!

FACT!




Oh, and "people on social media" are calling the Washington Post fake news.
Who is this "people on social media"?
Ann Coulter.




Speaking to RT, a former member of the British MI5 intelligence agency, Annie Machon, said that rolling out with a bright headline and later issuing a correction is part of the Washington Post’s tactics.

“Time after time after time, we are seeing this fake news coming out in the Washington Post,” she said. “And every time they put these fake stories out they have to put out a disclaimer afterwards. But of course, the seed is then sown,” Machon said.


As opposed to Russia Today, who prefers ambiguous and accusatory headlines that don't fit the content of the article.
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Russia Today quoting Ann Coulter to attack WaPo as "fake news" (Original Post) DetlefK Jan 2017 OP
Everything Anne Coulter says is fake! InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2017 #1
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