{"id":36976,"date":"2018-08-23T07:43:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T12:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36976"},"modified":"2018-08-23T07:43:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T12:43:42","slug":"russia-and-iran-hate-us-for-our-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36976","title":{"rendered":"Russia and Iran Hate Us for Our\u00a0Freedoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kurtnimmo.blog\/2018\/08\/22\/russia-and-iran-hate-us-for-our-freedoms\/#more-341\">Russia and Iran Hate Us for Our\u00a0Freedoms<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>It\u2019s easy to detect fake news. I don\u2019t need a fact checker or a laboratory at a globalist think tank to clue me in.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the latest fake news.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Both Russia and Iran want to influence the midterm elections.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s lunacy to believe this would make a difference, even if it were true.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The story was posted at one of the more notorious fake news sites\u2014The New York Times, the folks who sold you WMDs and the invasion of Iraq.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Facebook passed this info on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/21\/technology\/facebook-political-influence-midterms.html\">the Gray Lady of Propaganda<\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Facebook said it had identified a new political influence campaign on its platform that appeared intended to disrupt the midterm elections. The social network found and took down 652 fake accounts and pages that were trying to sow discord around social issues\u2026 Some of the accounts in the new influence campaign originated in Iran and Russia, Facebook said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This latest threat by people who hate us for our freedoms\u2014as George W. Bush so pointedly phrased it\u2014follows a similar claim last month.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The campaign\u2019s scale exceeded that of another influence operation that Facebook revealed last month, in which the company said it detected and removed 32 pages and fake accounts that had engaged in activity around divisive social issues ahead of the midterms.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Elections always arouse heated discussion on divisive issues and have done so since the founding of the (former) republic. Establishment Republicans and Democrats use the media as an influence tool and it is accepted as normal behavior. Billions are spent every election cycle to influence voters one way or the other.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The revelations underscore how Facebook continues to be used as a weapon by others to try to influence the American electorate.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia and Iran Hate Us for Our\u00a0Freedoms It\u2019s easy to detect fake news. I don\u2019t need a fact checker or a laboratory at a globalist think tank to clue me in.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the latest fake news.\u00a0 Both Russia and Iran want to influence the midterm elections.\u00a0 It\u2019s lunacy to believe this would make a difference, [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[21372,2779,441,20607,655,694,827],"class_list":["post-36976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-another-day-in-the-empire","tag-fake-news","tag-iran","tag-kurt-nimmo","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36976","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=36976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36977,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36976\/revisions\/36977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}