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"Back in 2015, you might recall how the Russian Government was caught hacking
into the DNC. It wasn’t particularly subtle; a Russian intelligence officer
pretending to be a Romanian hacker made the dumb mistake of forgetting to turn
on his VPN, revealing his Russian intelligence agency IP address to the world.
The data he obtained concerning ongoing squabbling within the DNC was later
leaked to the press to influence the 2016 election, and the rest is well
documented history.
In the wake of the attack, a baseless rumor began to mysteriously make the
rounds, suggesting that the DNC had, for some reason, hacked itself. The claim
popped up everywhere, but its most notable traction came courtesy of an article
over at The Nation, which took the claim and ran with it without doing even the
most basic of fact checking. The claim then popped up all over the Internet,
from Bloomberg opinion columns and Breitbart, to out of Donald Trump’s own
mouth.
The problem: it was all absolute, unrefined, 100% bullshit.
What actually happened? Seven years after the fact, and journalist Duncan
Campbell has finally published a story examining The Nation’s odd editorial
history of stifling criticism of Russia internally. It also rips apart the
Nation’s article, written by Patrick Lawrence, who, Campbell claims, repeated
baseless claims made by pro-Trump trolls and hackers pretending to be
intelligence analysts"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
