PANIC

"QANON" hit piece

by "Russia, Russia, Russia" POLITICO

with timeline and counterexample (POLITICO being called out by, of all, another MSM outfit).

>2017

What is the real story of Donald Trump and Russia? The answer is still unclear, and Democrats in Congress want to get to the bottom of it with an investigation. But there’s no doubt that a spider web of connections—some public, some private, some clear, some murky—exists between Trump, his associates and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/connections-trump-putin-russia-ties-chart-flynn-page-manafort-sessions-214868/

Politico still pushing Trump-Russia nonsense

Becket Adams - Feb 10, 2021

>2021

At Politico, the absurd notion that former President Donald Trump and his administration were especially cozy with Russia is alive and well.

Politico published a report this week co-authored by reporters Natasha Bertrand (yes, her again) and Daniel Lippman (yes, him again) hyping the fact that President Biden’s team has access to the Trump-Putin phone call transcripts, which, the story’s authors suggest, means we may soon know the true nature of the previous president’s relationship with Moscow.

Yes, we’re back to this again, hinting at the idea that Trump and his cohort were chummy with the Kremlin.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/politico-still-pushing-trump-russia-nonsense/ar-BB1dA134

By HEMANT KAKKAR and ASHER LAWSON

01/14/2022 12:00 PM EST

Hemant Kakkar is assistant professor of management and organizations at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Asher Lawson is a Ph.D. student in management and organizations at Duke.

Whether it’s anti-vaccine messaging or falsehoods about the 2020 election, it’s easy to blame conservatives or Republicans as a group for spreading misinformation, as many in the media and academia have done. But this message is oversimplified, and anyone who wants to fight back against the very real scourge of fake news in American politics should look more closely.

In newly published research, we found that it’s not conservatives in general who tend to promote false information, but rather a smaller subset of them who also share two psychological traits: low levels of conscientiousness and an appetite for chaos. Importantly, we found that several other factors we tested for — including support for former President Donald Trump — did not reliably predict an inclination to share misinformation.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/14/we-found-the-one-group-of-americans-who-are-most-likely-to-spread-fake-news-526973