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by eighthnate 3213 days ago
Not only that, but the media, especially the washingtonpost, strong-armed google, facebook and other social media into turning over the news to them recently.

Visit news.google.com and check out how many WaPo links there are.

Now use waybackmachine or another internet archive and go back 3, 4 or 5 years and check out how many WaPo links there are. None.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140319161446/https://news.goog...

It's even worse in the US and World sections ( which unfortunately isn't archived ).

Now a WaPo or NYTimes article is almost the top story 24/7.

Also, the hypocrisy isn't just with russia. The media's insane coverage of NK, China and everything else. It's just opened my eyes to the fact that our media is just propaganda like anything else and they are spinning a narrative.

They got away with it when the world was bigger and people weren't as connected, but now I have family and friends living in Europe, Korea and Japan and I can interface with them in real-time and immediately know that the media is just full of it.

Are they just getting the population for a war that the elite are planning? I don't get this non-stop fear and panic inducing nonsense. Every other month, it's a war with NK or China or Russia or Terrorists. It never stops.

And so what if FB sold ads to a russian company? How much ads did they sell to everyone else? How much did canadian companies spend? Chinese companies? Israelis? British? Or most importantly, american companies?