This Washington Post story is amazing.
The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation.
Russia’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery — including thousands of botnets, teams of paid human “trolls,” and networks of websites and social-media accounts — echoed and amplified right-wing sites across the Internet as they portrayed Clinton as a criminal hiding potentially fatal health problems and preparing to hand control of the nation to a shadowy cabal of global financiers. The effort also sought to heighten the appearance of international tensions and promote fear of looming hostilities with nuclear-armed Russia.
The footage of Hillary that raised questions about her health was not faked. She had to be carried into her SUV (supposedly with pneumonia). Then she turns up an hour later outside her daughter’s apartment fit as a fiddle. Anyone who’s had pneumonia knows what a crock that is.
And Hillary’s relationship with Wall Street is well-documented.
The hacked emails embarrassed Clinton because they showed she had stacked the DNC with her people to rig the election so Bernie Sanders couldn’t win.
There is no proof that the Russian government hacked those emails.