Reacting to this Google has started fact-checking articles, sites, and journalists. Guess who has the fact checking job? The same experts, fact finders, ultra-nationalist related groups and paid private Intel that testifies in the Senate hearings are now deciding what fake news is and who is responsible for it. That's right, a former underwear salesman gets to decide if your website is paid for by Vladimir Putin.
RINF.com is finding this out now. Over the course of 2 days, Google's ultra-nationalist fact checkers decided that a teaser portion of an article reprinted from TruthOut and an article by Eric Zuesse needed to be taken down or the publisher would lose access to AdSense. Adsense provides the ads that many sites earn a portion of their income with. RINF complied with the first one and the next day the demand came to take the second one down.
Mick Meaney who started RINF in 2004 took a principled stand and re-published the articles. According to Meaney, neither one violated Google's TOS. He will keep publishing substantial articles regardless of the fallout. Every publisher is going to need to make a similar decision soon.
Once a Clint Watts has been paid for finding an enemy, he needs to find another to get paid again. And again. And again. This week it's RINF, OpedNews.com and the Alex Jones media empire. Next week it will be the Nation, the National Interest, or the National Review.
In part 1, I showed finding the enemy was the reason for the no-fly lists growing so fast in the 2000's. It is the same today as it was then. You are once again getting called the potential enemy of the state by the same people that make money by creating threats . The linked publication StopFake is a Ukrainian propaganda site and a Google fact checker.
Because you didn't accept the "facts" they laid out in MSM with no proof, you are on Putin' payroll. Because they are the experts that MSM goes to now, you are challenging their authority and possibly their potential income.
Your news organization, website, or reputation as a journalist is as easy to destroy as one single mention of it in front of Congress. Guess what? That's exactly what they did.
Right now the US Congress is deciding how to legislate away the right Americans have to factual information without looking like they are trampling free speech and freedom of the press. Yes that's being done and you are sitting there like a lump watching it happen.
Your politics don't matter. This time everyone got Berned. Everyone conveniently forgets that Sanders was the first one labeled as the Kremlin candidate running against Hillary Clinton. Thanks to Aaron Weisburd work and Clint Watts testimony, the average American looks like Vladimir Putin to the US Congress. It's called Information Policy.
The importance of both men in today's news cycles can't be overestimated. Watts and Weisburd provided the substance to Russian election interference. Watts and Weisburd's work provided the Propornot list. Watts and Weisburd's circle provided the information that went into the ODNI report in January on Russian 2016 election interference without proof.
The reason is simple. You are the Russian interference. If you wrote about or supported, Sanders, Jill Stein, or Donald Trump, you are the UNNAMED agent responsible. Weisburd has gone as far as geo-locating where the more vocal Russian agents work and live. And those are just engaged readers. There you are baby!
Since 2015 Watts and Weisburd have been working for a foreign government trying to incite US policy against Russia. Their circles which includes the Atlantic Council make up the 18th Intelligence Agency the US has at its disposal. The only difference is they are for hire by anyone who wants to prove anything. Want to prove Thailand is plotting a US takeover? Give them a call.
In a lot of cases, this private sector Intel is the same unnamed Intelligence community planting stories in the press. They create the new round of experts. They provide most of the Intel facts/fictions for hotspots such as Syria and Donbass that US policy has been built on. They provided all the proofs in January's ODNI report. As ludicrous as it sounds, they are the go-to experts on Russian interference for both the MSM and the US Congress.
They have determined that you were the Russian interference in the 2016 election cycle.
Let's look at Syria. In 2013 according to @bellingcat, Syrian president Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. This Bellingcat Intel information was part of what caused Obama to draw his red line in Syria and became widespread across the MSM.
"Based on the latest findings of two prominent experts, which appear to confirm other reports and investigations , it would have been impossible for the Assad dictatorship to have perpetrated the chemical attack outside Damascus as outlined by Obama and other Western officials. Instead, it seems that the more likely culprits of the attack were foreign-backed "rebel" groups hoping to overthrow the relatively secular regime and install an Islamist dictatorship based on Sharia law. Estimates suggest almost 1,500 people died in the attack, including more than 400 children.
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