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triron

(22,003 posts) Tue Apr 3, 2018, 12:20 PM Apr 2018

WashPo: Fake news helped Trump 'win'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/04/03/a-new-study-suggests-fake-news-might-have-won-donald-trump-the-2016-election/?utm_term=.ef13cbe901fa

Duh. Why be so fucking tentative?

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WashPo: Fake news helped Trump 'win' (Original Post) triron Apr 2018 OP

Most of the stories described were big deals on JPR Gothmog Apr 2018 #1

Psychological warfare. We are under attack. -nt poboy2 Apr 2018 #2

Kick Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2018 #3

K&R UTUSN Apr 2018 #4

Gothmog

(145,242 posts)

1. Most of the stories described were big deals on JPR

Reply to triron (Original post)

Tue Apr 3, 2018, 01:14 PM

Apr 2018

The JPR website is full of russian trolls and putin lovers. I saw a ton of pizzagate stories on that board until the admins stopped. There a large number of stories on that Russian site about Hillary Clinton's supposed bad health. The idiots who post on JPR believe each and everyone of these fake news stories