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bettyellen

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1. The thing is a lot of non trolls picked up these reports and ran with them...

Reply to PatrickforO (Original post)

Sun Mar 12, 2017, 03:23 PM

Mar 2017

I was sort of shocked last year but I saw it happen among friends. RT, Wikileaks and Guccifer.... The MSM being maligned as partisan along with Hillary and "the establishment" was a huge thing. I think it was messaging planned at a few segments of both right and left.

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HP:Bernie Sanders Campaign Faced A Fake News Tsunami. Where Did It Come From? The trolls set out to [View all] PatrickforO Mar 2017 OP

The thing is a lot of non trolls picked up these reports and ran with them... bettyellen Mar 2017 #1

Yes. This is not good, that we fell for it. PatrickforO Mar 2017 #2

One of my friends- a smart guy too- was obsessed by it all.... bettyellen Mar 2017 #3

The fake news was obviously fake. Igel Mar 2017 #4