Donald Trump and his allies are throwing every bucket of chum they can at their base in their ongoing efforts to distract from the administration’s bungling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, and this time they may have caught a fish that’s too big to fry. Following a request from Sen. …
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic lawmaker who has since turned MAGA, is helping her boss President Donald Trump try to rewrite the history of 2016 to match his preferred talking points. On Friday, Gabbard called for the Obama administration to be “prosecuted to the fullest extent …
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R eality Winner has been out of prison since June 2021, but she’s still under lockdown. The whistleblower’s travel is confined to the Southern District of Texas and she must abide by a 10 p.m. curfew. If all goes according to plan — and it really, really hasn’t for most …
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Calls to protest George Soros and refugees. Far-right Twitter screeds about immigrants. New Europe Observation sounds like a far-right extremely online news outlet. But it’s actually a front group for a Chinese propaganda network that’s borrowing tactics from Russia’s infamous 2016 troll farm. Social media giant Meta announced on Wednesday …
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Russian trolls are taking advantage of the free-for-all on far-right social media apps to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda —and they were particularly successful when impersonating fans of MAGA musician Kid Rock. Those conclusions are from a new report by the social media tracking firm Graphika and Stanford University’s Internet Observatory. The …
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Chinese trolls are taking a page from Russia’s 2016 playbook and trying to meddle in America’s midterm elections. But unlike their colleagues from St. Petersburg, these trolls aren’t trying very much and they’re failing — badly. In a report released on Tuesday, Meta, Facebook’s parent company, says it found networks …
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