NBC News Exposed 'Reporting' Pure Propaganda On Gabbard's Russia Links From Disinfo-Democrat

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 1:40pm

Collusion, right under your nose...

In December, a Democratic operative who hatched a Russian "false flag" scheme against Republican Roy Moore in last year's Alabama special election promoted his own propaganda on the dubious "Hamilton 68" website - which purports to track Russian "bot" activity, yet refuses to disclose how they do it.

In January, an online disinformation campaign conducted by a former Obama administration official leading up to the 2018 midterm elections was bankrolled by left-wing tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, according to the Daily Caller's Peter Hasson. Hoffman, who co-founded LinkedIn, admitted in December to funding American Engagement Technologies (AET) - which is currently embroiled in a "false flag" scandal stemming from the 2017 Alabama special election. Now, AET and its founder Mickey Dickerson have come under fire for meddling in the 2018 midterm elections.

And now, as the Democratic establishment faces an onslaught of potential presidential candidates that are not toeing-the-line of radicalism, The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald exposes the pure propaganda that the liberal media will resort to, in order to please their Democratic, deep state overlords and keep to "The Plan."

NBC News published a predictably viral story Friday, claiming that “experts who track websites and social media linked to Russia have seen stirrings of a possible campaign of support for Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard.”

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But the whole story was a sham: the only “experts” cited by NBC in support of its key claim was the firm, New Knowledge, that just got caught by the New York Times fabricating Russian troll accounts on behalf of the Democratic Party in the Alabama Senate race to manufacture false accusations that the Kremlin was interfering in that election

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The only other so-called “expert” cited by NBC in support of its claim that Russian accounts are supporting Gabbard is someone named “Josh Russell,” who NBC identified as “Josh Russel.” Russell, or Russel, is touted by NBC as “a researcher and ‘troll hunter’ known for identifying fake accounts.” In reality, “Russel” is someone CNN last year touted as an “Indiana dad” and “amateur troll hunter” with a full-time job unrelated to Russia (he works as programmer at a college) and whose “hobby” is tracing online Russian accounts.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-03/nbc-news-exposed-reporting-pur...

And the Dims keep pointing fingers at everyone for doing the very same things they do.

This habit of accusing everyone the Dims don’t approve of being basically ‘traitors’ is wayyyyyyy over the line. Never would I have EVER imagined that the Dims could be so corrupt and evil. That’s so inflammatory that I think lawyers need to get involved. The time to start stepping on the necks of these liars is long overdue.

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It’s seems strange to me that we have a party of jackasses running around accusing other potential candidates of treason
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Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 1:42pm
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Submitted by Pricknick on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 2:19pm
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Look at the comments to this story under the cbs tweets.
They're overwhelmingly critical of NoBody Cares.
That's a good thing.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 4:23pm
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I moved it here since it's more on topic.

Most of the articles she chose were from years ago.

Oh well, you know what they say about a fool and his money.

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Submitted by CB on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 5:10pm
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@snoopydawg
comments are a hoot to read. The majority mock here.

Here's a few selections:

Fundraiser by Caroline Orr: Investigate Tulsi Gabbard
$1,920 of $5,000 goal
Raised by 64 people in 23 days
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As a lifelong liberal and someone that actually lived through the Cold War, this McCarthyism smear is the reason I no longer vote for any Democrat. My uncle's life was nearly destroyed by this stuff in the 1950's and I refuse to be a part of it. Keep burning bridges Democrats.
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This sounds like a smear campaign. Judging by the description, it is clear that you are not planning to do an objective report, but only want to search for information that could put Tulsi Gabbard in a bad light. I'm all for investigating politicians critically, but not in such a biased way. Moreover, the things you list in your description, like 'pro-Assad' or 'Hindu nationalist', is just loaded language that is used to demonize a candidate.
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Plans are to go hang around a bunch of luaus and hotel bars and go on a few catamaran booze cruises to see if they can pick up any dirt on Gabbard. With every $100 contribution, you'll get a free postcard saying "wish you were here!"
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Sickening and despicable effort. I’m not even progressive across the board on all issues but Tulsi’s integrity, compassion, and Aloha spirit is enough for me to trust her to lead our country. Regardless of our few policy differences, I trust the process.
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Submitted by snoopydawg on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 5:23pm
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Yah, this is a scam just to get a free trip to Hawaii. You all are gullible who donated to this. I'm reporting this GoFundMe as a scam.

Bingo. It looks like gfm hasn't taken it down though because fools are still giving her money. Maybe I should say I'm doing it for that instead of for paying off my car repairs.

The Alex Jones and David Brock's Correct the Record are great too. I've asked the same question as Amanda did. Why aren't people being sued for slander and defamation? I'm seeing many cases where people have stepped over the line.

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Submitted by Bollox Ref on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 8:48pm
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but the way the 'Democratic' Establishment has targeted her is both fascinating and instructive. To the point that they're prepared to run someone in her district? Racist, sexist, ageist, misogynist..... surely.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 9:24pm
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@Bollox Ref

They reeaallyy do not like Tulsi over there. Not sure if it's because she met with Assad or Trump the most for why they don't. I'd think that her speaking out against regime change in Venezuela would earn her some brownie points because they used to be against that, but nope.

But they have no problem with DiFi saying that she is looking forward to working with him. Or Nancy and Chuck going with the bipartisanship act after the GOP's refusal to work with them for the last 10 years. But if the Dems are going to back a primary challenge to AoC, I'm betting that they would like to see the back of Tulsi too.

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Submitted by Roy Blakeley on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 9:55pm
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@snoopydawg Assad, Russia, Venezuela are just convenient ways of establishing false criticisms. DailyKos was once sort of progressive, but now it seems to be neoliberal, imperialist and IDPol.

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Submitted by OzoneTom on Tue, 02/05/2019 - 11:29am
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Good to know! They cannot (but will) winge when some of their useless incumbents get primary opponents espousing plans to actually improve the lot of voters.

And both Reps Ocasio-Cortez and Gabbard should have no trouble dispensing with DNC-supportted challengers IMO.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 8:08pm
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Tulsi Gabbard Slams "Neocon/Neolib Warmongers" After NBC Propaganda Exposed

Tulsi Gabbard lashed out at "neocon" and "neolib warmongers" after NBC News was exposed trying to smear her as a Kremlin stooge. The network was called out over the weekend for relying on a Democrat-run firm that created fake Russian twitter bots to stage a "false flag" campaign against Republic Roy Moore in the 2017 Alabama special election - New Knowledge.
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Disturbingly, the Senate Intelligence Committee has relied on a report by New Knowledge on Russian social media election interference, while the firm has created a "Hamilton 68" offshoot, "Disinfo2018" referenced in the NBC article, which claims that three of the top URLs propagated throughout social media by Kremlin bots were about Gabbard.

In short; NBC relied on a known propagandist who created a Russian bot "false flag" to meddle in an election, who claims to track pro-Kremlin Twitter activity, in order to smear Tulsi Gabbard as a Putin puppet.

You'd think that NBC would be apologizing to not just Tulsi, but to the country for what they said about her. But just maybe this will wake people up from their stupor of believing everything they hear about Russian allegations.

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Submitted by OzoneTom on Tue, 02/05/2019 - 11:38am
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@snoopydawg
"It's okay when we do it!"

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