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Good. The extreme spread of fake news and misinformation on the right will have consequences like this where a somewhat legit story(with a lot of false exaggerations) gets buried because of the other times things like this were fabricated. Boy who cried wolf and all that.


I might be inclined to debate that fairly if left wing misinformation were also treated equally (is Trump really a compromised Russian asset since the 80s?), or if the establishment media actually took responsibility for this sad state of affairs where half of the country doesn't trust mainstream news. Journalists have spent years breaking public trust on honesty and partisanship, then cried foul when Trump beat them at their own game.

You seem to want to blame the people on the right for this situation, but they are the symptom, not the cause. If you're interested in fixing this, then stop compounding the problem, like suppressing stories that make your favoured side look bad.



I can't find anything about Trump saying this on TV, or in that WP article.

Also: https://www.justsecurity.org/63660/is-trump-a-russian-agent-...


Trump literally said he was a Russian asset and has been compromised since the 80s? Please quote what he said and where he said that and/or what part of that wikipedia page documents that.

If you can't quote that or anything even remotely like it, then this counts as exactly the kind of misinformation that I'm talking about.




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