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The litmus test for whether someone is controlled by Russian trolls is whether they supported Hillary for president last election. She spent more on her election and got more endorsements from the mainstream patriotic media. She should have won and Russian trolls successfully remote controlled almost half the country to defeat her!

You see the American people don't control their own minds. They only believe what they see and hear. Thus they should only see snd hear patriotic messages from the patriotic Hillary backing media or they will become confused. They are all little children and cannot tell what's fake and what's real. They must learn about the outside world from approved sources to prevent... confusion...

Geez... Why do we even have elections? We should just have a panel of anonymous leakers to the Washington Post choose who gets into office.




People lost on traditional media outlets since sometime and they now only rely on social media to get their news.

So it is easy to attempt to influence the public with fake news and a question mark at the end. Buzzfeed ran a profile of a news website which used to write border line fake news and made a ton of money.


What about all the Washington Post and New York times articles with anonymous sources? How do you know that isn't all fake? Are we now only to blindly trust specifically whitelisted authorities that relies on unknown sources? Why keep playing around? Just put these unknown sources in charge of everything. Maybe the public should directly elect the people behind "anonymous sources say" since they largely determine the news these days and thus what people believe and who they vote for anyway.




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