[sleazy_b]

"The mass media was completely played by the GRU and wrote the stories they wanted after the DNC and Podesta disclosures. You could argue that this was much more impactful than the IRA disinfo, and there has been almost no self-reflection by NYT/WaPo/WSJ/TV on their role."

[52-6F-62]

That is really unbecoming of him. I'm already not a big Facebook fan, but that was for reasons outside of all of this continually unraveling tale.

To try and offload the blame for a specific matter to completely unrelated parties is just... well it doesn't look good on him at all. Quite frankly, the gesture inspires suspicion.

[thousandautumns]

He's absolutely right. Publications like NYT, WaPo, CNN, etc. have played huge roles in exacerbating the damage caused by Russian interference, as well as blowing up non-Russia related stories that ended up being of little substance but were major factors in the election, such as the Clinton email fiasco. And there has been little to no signs of repentance from them. And I doubt there will be.

That said, absolutely none of that absolves Facebook of anything, and to bring it up is just deflection.

[ineedasername]

They fell prey to the same disinformation he knew about and failed to act on adequately. I can't fault those news outlets for failing to catch this problem at the time when they didn't have the knowledge Stamos did about it's true origins and intent. And if you think those news outlets haven't done some soul searching on the issue then, well, you haven't been reading them very closely these past two years.

[ineedasername]

Easy for him to do more denial and deflection of responsibility that news outlets fell prey to the very disinformation HE KNEW ABOUT.