A Washington Post article inaccurately claims that Russian propaganda has managed to manipulate the internet and affected the outcome of the US presidential election by spreading Fake News. In the article the newspaper promoted a shady website called PropOrNot, which has created a Chrome extension to censor websites that it does not agree with and deems to be “fake news.” The US news organization has been ridiculed by anyone who has read their article which shows contempt for people’s free will and intelligence. The anonymous PropOrNot site has compiled a blacklist of websites its anonymous authors accuse of pushing fake news and Russian propaganda. Sputnik reports: Sites that PropOrNot is accusing of peddling Russian propaganda include extremely popular news websites on several sides of the political spectrum, including The Drudge Report, TruthOut, Blackagendareport, Sputnik News, and even Wikileaks. Apparently Drudge Report is Russian propaganda! Maybe that’s how ProporNot got to this absurd #, which we have no clue how they calculated pic.twitter.com/YxsdxXjbV2 — Trevor Timm (@trevortimm) 25 November 2016 “We have used a combination of manual and automated analysis, including analysis of content, timing, technical indicators, and other reporting, in order to initially identify (“red-flag”) the following as Russian propaganda [...]
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