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The evidence of 'fake news' by the US media



Flagrantly false stories, like the Washington Post report that the Russians had hacked into the Vermont electrical grid, are published, then retracted 24 hours later. 

Sometimes – like the stories about Russian interference in the French and German elections – they are not retracted even after they have been discredited. 

These stories have been thoroughly debunked by French and German intelligence services but continue to hover,  confusing debate. 

The claim that the Russians hacked local and state voting systems in the US was refuted by California and Wisconsin election officials, but their comments generated a mere whisper compared with the uproar created by the original story. The rush to publish without sufficient attention to accuracy has become the new normal in journalism. Retraction or correction is almost beside the point: the false accusation has done its work.

So what do we surmise from the above? we conclude that Fake News works

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