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The real disinformation was the Russia disinformation hoax.

Thanks to the latest release of the Twitter files, we now know without a doubt that the entire

Russia disinformation racket was a massive disinformation campaign to undermine US elections and

perhaps even push regime change inside the United States after Donald Trump was elected president

in 2016. Here is some background in November 2016 just after the election.

The Washington Post published an article titled Russian Propaganda Effort Help Spread Fake News

during election. The purpose of the article was to de-legitimize the Trump presidency as a product

of a Russian disinformation campaign. There is no way to know whether the Russian campaign proved

decisive in electing Trump, but researchers portray it as part of a broadly effective strategy

of sowing distrust in US democracy and its leaders wrote Craig Timber.

The implication was clear a Russian operation elected Donald Trump, not the American people.

Among the experts, it cited were an anonymous organization called Prop or not,

which in its own words claimed to identify more than 200 websites as peddlers of Russian propaganda

during the election season, with combined audiences of at least 15 million Americans.

The organization's report was so preposterous that the Washington Post was later forced to issue a

clarification even though the Post provided a link to the report which falsely accused independent

news outlet like zero hedge anti-war.com and even my Ron Paul Institute as Russian disinformation.

The 2016 Washington Post article also featured expert Clint Watts, a former FBI counterintelligence officer

who went on to found another outfit claiming to be hunting Russian disinformation in the United States

and the Hamilton 68 project. That project was launched by the Alliance for Securing Democracy,

a very well-funded organization containing a hues-hues of top neocons like William Crystal,

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