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Brian Berletic at The New Atlas has gone into how the US uses NGOs to subvert govts around the world. I did not know that. If the Russians bought facebook ads in the US that is an outrage. The US interferes in foreign elections all the time. NGOs like NED do the dirty work the CIA used to do, paid for by the US govt. Didn't the US swing an election in Russia in recent history? Maybe to Yeltsin?
Meanwhile ..... Hamilton 68....
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1619029891017756672Matt Taibbi
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26. I’m listed as a foreign bot?” said conservative media figure Dennis Michael Lynch. “As a proud taxpaying citizen, charitable family man, and honest son of a U.S. Marine, I deserve better. We all do!”
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27. Consortium editor Joe Lauria too was angered to find he was on the list, which targeted voices across the spectrum: “Organizations like Hamilton 68 are in business to enforce an official narrative, which means excising inconvenient facts, which they call ‘misinformation.’”
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28.What makes this an important story is the sheer scale of the news footprint left by Hamilton 68’s digital McCarthyism. The quantity of headlines and TV segments dwarfs the impact of individual fabulists like Jayson Blair or Stephen Glass.
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29.Hamilton 68 was used as a source to assert Russian influence in an astonishing array of news stories: support for Brett Kavanaugh or the Devin Nunes memo, the Parkland shooting, manipulation of black voters, “attacks” on the Mueller investigation…
https://youtu.be/KSwrUSdOJcQRussiagate was a hoax w/Matt Taibbi | The Chris Hedges Report
