{"id":31656,"date":"2018-02-27T07:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T12:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31656"},"modified":"2018-02-27T07:17:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T12:17:12","slug":"washington-has-engaged-in-information-warfare-including-fake-news-and-trolling-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31656","title":{"rendered":"Washington has Engaged in Information Warfare, Including Fake News and Trolling, for Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington has Engaged in Information Warfare, Including Fake News and Trolling, for Years<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The howling in government and the corporate media and among many liberals about an alleged Russian information war, with bots, trolls and fake news being placed in social media to mislead and incite Americans against each other, might lead one think, like Sen John McCain, that we are practically at war with Russia. Yet it\u2019s all actually pretty silly. After all, our own government has been playing this game for decades, both abroad, and also right here inside the \u201cLand of the Free and Home of the Brave\u201d and against us American citizens.<\/p>\n

I know. I was a victim of such an attack, though initially, I didn\u2019t realize what was happening.<\/p>\n

Back on August 25, 2005, I published a piece in\u00a0In These Times<\/em>\u00a0titled\u00a0Radioactive Wounds of War<\/a>\u00a0about the devastating damage caused by the US military\u2019s use of depleted uranium weapons in its brutal assault leveling Fallujah, the Iraqi city of 300,000 people that was destroyed by US marines in 2004 as retribution for the killing of four US contractors by the Iraqi insurgents who at the time controlled the city, and for their humiliating defeat of a smaller Marine assault on the city earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

At the time I was and had been a contributing editor at\u00a0ITT<\/em>, a publication for which I had written regularly since it was founded back in 1978, and was listed on its masthead as such.<\/p>\n

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As I recount in an article published in\u00a0Counterpunch<\/em>\u00a0on November 19, 2005, titled\u00a0R.I.P In These Times<\/a>, the left-liberal news magazine had been promptly bombarded with letters criticizing my article after it came out.<\/p>\n

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Washington has Engaged in Information Warfare, Including Fake News and Trolling, for Years The howling in government and the corporate media and among many liberals about an alleged Russian information war, with bots, trolls and fake news being placed in social media to mislead and incite Americans against each other, might lead one think, like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[169,5493,11643,2779,379,9008,1426,655,694,1169,3117,827,865],"class_list":["post-31656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-corporate-media","tag-counterpunch","tag-dave-lindorff","tag-fake-news","tag-government","tag-information-warfare","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-social-media","tag-trolling","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31657,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31656\/revisions\/31657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}