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Honeycombe8

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3. I know. But to be fair, no one knew about this problem at the time...

Reply to ehrnst (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 20, 2018, 07:54 PM

Mar 2018

and even when it started to be noticed, no one had any idea of the enormity and cohesiveness of it (that it was being done by a group FOR one candidate, and possibly mixed up with Russia).

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Google launches news initiative to combat fake news [View all] Honeycombe8 Mar 2018 OP

Where the fuck was this two years ago? (nt) ehrnst Mar 2018 #1

I know. But to be fair, no one knew about this problem at the time... Honeycombe8 Mar 2018 #3

Ummm..did we forget the 24/7 promotional advertising for Donald Trump in 2015/16? Wwcd Mar 2018 #2

Nice try. It was the fake news that did it. Honeycombe8 Mar 2018 #4

The right wing fake news sites are not going to be happy about this. Mr. Sparkle Mar 2018 #5

Yes, they'll do something. Remember Trump was going to start his own news internet channel? Honeycombe8 Mar 2018 #6

Cheeto said "the election is rigged" because he thought he would lose FakeNoose Mar 2018 #7