Yeah, on the rare occasion I look at political stuff

Back during the election cycle, I followed a bunch of Donald Trump accounts on social media. Always try and keep diversity and all opinions on the table. I mean there was Real Donald, and then probably 20-30 others. It was interesting what was posted, and the hosting platforms for the "news" stories posted. Then you'd have the account narrate a tweet or post, and then you read the article and it says something else. And in other forums people would post these very same links, with the same narrative, and the story didn't match up.

Even today, We Love Donald Trump is still posting heavily, articles from mostly obscure websites, with spin on other stories on other websites. And as early as yesterday, I saw a retweet of an one of the same "We Love Donald Trump" posts, citing the same narrative in the tweet which was not what the article cited said. And I know this is a real person who believes that, and has NOT read the article.

I'm about 95% sure the one that's still most active is Russian, or Chinese, or something. If it's a person they're off their rocker crazy.

Heck, I see these shady posts in here even. Some blog or "news" site, citing something that either says something totally different, or they make the same contortion of the facts from what is cited, and it's never cited. There's a universe of websites out there with things OTHER than .com, .net, etc. (dots you've never heard of) hosting and pedaling misinformation and flat out falsehoods.

And it's the same on the left as well. You see it in the left in the MSM, but their misinformation is far more subtle. But the bias is just as clear and palpable. And some dude from the left in here posts some garbage from a blog about some story about something someone said. Find out what was actually said, then you see they were misquoted through the filter of speaking, MSM spin, Blog spin, and Tigernet (totally accurate and irrefutable fact). I busted Facebook coach once, citing some blog about something someone said. Searched and found the exact transcript of what was said. Blog was false.

It goes both ways.

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Not really. They're actually very clear.

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Like you see a tweet or post with a narrative, then you see an article from some obscure website. Someone had to type the narrative, and it's usually very clever play on the facts in the article, or it's a fake article that skillfully plays on the facts of the source.

No this isn't "bots". It's either massively obsessed people who have lost their minds and are posting garbage to further an agenda, or they're foreign entities. Either way, it's not robotic or fake at all. There's thought behind it.

It's the same thing the left does in the MSM, but they're just not quite as good at it. But there's enough BS from the left and the MSM, they right wing/foreign bot websites retain credibility with facts at times. This is what really seals the deal. It's really working both ways now almost equally.

The biggest example I can think of (and why I think it's likely Russia), was with the NASCAR Bubba Wallace noose controversy that blew up last year in the MSM. While the collective hands of the MSM were wringing, and media coverage was wall to wall, and NASCAR was all heels, and everything, BEFORE the FBI investigated it, RT posted an old video, from a year earlier, at another race, when Bubba Wallace was NOT in that stall, showing the very same "noose". Someone had tied it as a door pull, long before. That news BROKE on Russia Today and was seen nowhere in the US. It was passed around right wing websites from RT, or vice versa. But, in the end, it was the truth and they gained credibility as a result. It was a prime example of how they gained credibility over CBSNBCCNNABCetc. From that, they can then use that credibility to further agendas. Toss in a nugget of truth here and there, countering the misinformation we all see in the MSM, and then with that credibility, expand a narrative and agenda.

This is what is so dangerous with media bias. With the left entrenched in domestic American media, that lets the right use the same tactics, and since the right has no power in the US, that's an open invite for Russia or foreign actors to further their own agendas. And when liberals lament the danger of Russian influence, it's no less dangerous then the left's own influence in reality. The liberals own tactics invite the rise of the right as well, using the same tactics, or a foreign adversary even.

People need to see this for what it is and turn off the "news" really.

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People’s own words are now disinformation

If you read it, the account wasn't banned

Twitter lies their ### off

Yeah, I have no idea if it's true...

They always lie and hide why they are doing things

The propaganda is palpable. Both ways.

Not really. They're actually very clear.

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He recently got 1 million from the Kochs for project V

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What's CNN

Bruh, have you not heard the 1997 summer tour version

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commies and fascists are the same thing in reality.***

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