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49. Breitbart

49. Breitbart

Breitbart seems to post quite a lot of pro-Russian propaganda. The following are examples:

  • 9/3/2015 - “Donald Trump is pretty pumped about Putin backing Assad and fighting ISIS:” Source
  • 11/10/2015 - “Rand Paul: if we say we are establishing a no-fly zone over Iraq, we are saying we are going to shoot down Russian plays” Source
  • 7/27/2016 - “Did you hear Trump told Russia to HACK Hillary’s deactivated, decommissioned server He said to hack ALL OF HER WEBS” Source
  • 9/2/2016 - “After weeks of “PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN,” journos immediately stopped talking about Putin yesterday:” Source
  • 10/20/2016 - “Back at it again with the Putin conspiracy theories!” Source
  • 11/1/2016 - “Everyone knows Vladimir Putin is skewing these polls” Source
  • 11/1/2016 - “Thank heavens, these patriots are standing up to Vladimir Putin’s voter intimidation efforts!” Source
  • 11/1/2016 – “Glenn Beck, our top doughboy in the fight against Vladimir Putin” Source
  • 11/1/2016 – “The ultimate irony of their desperate Putin attacks” Source
  • 12/15/2016 - “Shhhhhh! Go back to blaming Russia, Joe!” Source
  • 12/16/2016 - “Do the tweets embolden Russia?” —The very top tier of professional journalism, 2016" Source
  • 12/28/2016 – “Shhhhh! No, just keep doubling down on Russian haxxation!” Source
  • 12/30/2016 - “Why didn’t the executive order link a Russian DNC hack to Wikileaks” Source
  • 1/16/2017 - “When Party elders shriek about Russian interference, they’re trying to distract from what DNC emails actually said” Source
  • 2/15/2017 – "Headline: RUSSIA CONSPIRACY (No progs read past this) Paragraph Three: “No evidence of such cooperation” Source
  • 2/18/2017 – “But… but muh Putin?” Source
  • 2/26/2017 - Former Putin adviser : “There were no serious connections” between Trump and Russia” Source

I didn’t want to dedicate more than a page to this but if you want to see more instances you can find them here: Twitter Search

  • 7/16/2013 - How Ukraine wooed Conservative Websites. Source
  • 8/9/2015 – Some Breitbart employees say Trump has provided financial backing in exchange for fawning headlines — a charge management strongly denies. Source
  • 3/20/2017 - FBI’s Russian-influence probe includes a look at Breitbart, InfoWars news sites. Source
  • 3/27/2017 - Breitbart staff list reveals additional ties to Bannon and Mercer. Source