Drudge Report became a regular conduit to Russian propaganda.

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Drudge Report became a regular conduit to Russian propaganda.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/politics/wp/2017/11/10/one-of-the-busiest-websites-in-the-u-s-in-2016-regularly-linked-to-russia-propaganda/

One of the busiest websites in the U.S. in 2016 regularly linked to Russia propaganda

By Philip Bump
November 10, 2017 at 10:31 AM

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"By July 2016, according to the analysis site SimilarWeb, Matt Drudge’s link-aggregation site Drudge Report was the second-most-visited on the Internet in the United States. Over the course of the month — the month of the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions and the month of the leak of emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee — SimilarWeb estimates that Drudge had 1,472,220,000 pageviews.
That’s 1.4 billion, the equivalent of 47 views of the Drudge Report every second of every minute that month.

Being the second-most-visited site, incidentally, means that Drudge had more page-views than Yahoo, Disney (including ABC and ESPN) and Time Warner.
It had more than the New York Times and The Washington Post, combined — with enough space left over to also outpace Hearst.

By December, Drudge had fallen to third, the position it had held for most of 2016.
That month, though, the number of pageviews had climbed to 1.83 billion.
That’s as though 58 people loaded Drudge Report every second that month.

Translated into universally accessible terms, the Drudge Report was a traffic behemoth during the 2016 election.
And every time the page was loaded last year (and today, should you visit), there were two direct links to the conspiracy-theory-hawking site Infowars.

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[Sneederbunk]

1. Became aware of that a long time ago.

[Wwcd]

2. Lol. Ya we all kinda knew that. Glad someone finnally

..decided to tell the duped.

Oh well. We tried to tell them

[genxlib]

3. I can't get to WaPo

But this info does not compute.

Are they claiming that Drudge was the 2nd busiest site during that time? Ahead of all but one of Google, facebook, youtube, instagram, amazon, twitter, wikipedia, etc.?

I tried to look up the list and Drudge is currently at 48 behind other news sites like FOX, nytimes, msn, cnn. I get that political news rises in campaign season but it seems like the others would rise as well.

I'm calling BS. If they got that much traffic, it had to be bots trying to artificially inflate their numbers. I could see Russia doing that to supercharge the stories they were trying to circulate.