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How the Media Used Russiagate Conspiracy

Theories to Create a News Cartel

Frontpage Mag, by Daniel Greenfield

Posted By: Hazymac, 6/15/2022 7:14:03 AM

In the fall of 2019, Facebook announced that it would be writing selected media outlets some very big checks. The launch of Facebook News was billed as a way to give consumers more access to information, but it was actually an attempt at appeasing big media companies. Facebook, with its older and more conservative user base, had become the epicenter of election conspiracies from the Clinton campaign and its media allies. While Hillary Clinton and her associates were eager to shift the blame for her defeat by relaunching their existing Russiagate smears with false claims that Russian Facebook ads had tilted the election to Trump