http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/pizzagate-anatomy-of-a-fake-news-scandal-w511904
Citing Prince's interview, Jones fumed, "When I think about all the children Hillary Clinton has personally murdered and chopped up and raped . . . yeah, you heard me right. Hillary Clinton has personally murdered children." Jones' video was viewed on YouTube more than 427,000 times. Prince's interview was shared another 81,000 times. On Twitter, the numbers were increasing exponentially- – 300 percent in just six days.....
Allegations started circulating that Clinton consumed semen, breast milk and menstrual blood....
Watts, the cyber-security expert, doesn't know if Russia and the Trump campaign colluded on Pizzagate, or anything else. But both camps were clearly opportunistic. "You can't say that there was no indigenous support," he says. "The Russians don't create this whole [alt-right] movement. They just harness it." Of course, so did Trump. But Watts believes the Russians, at least, are playing for much higher stakes than one presidential election. "The goal is to create division between communities," he says. "It is making you not trust the state. It's eroding the mandate of elected officials so that they can't govern properly. It's making people want to not participate in democracy because they think it's corrupt. It's getting you to either believe that it's all stacked against you or you just opt out altogether because you don't know what to believe. When you don't know what to believe, you'll believe anything."
Citing Prince's interview, Jones fumed, "When I think about all the children Hillary Clinton has personally murdered and chopped up and raped . . . yeah, you heard me right. Hillary Clinton has personally murdered children." Jones' video was viewed on YouTube more than 427,000 times. Prince's interview was shared another 81,000 times. On Twitter, the numbers were increasing exponentially- – 300 percent in just six days.....
Allegations started circulating that Clinton consumed semen, breast milk and menstrual blood....
Watts, the cyber-security expert, doesn't know if Russia and the Trump campaign colluded on Pizzagate, or anything else. But both camps were clearly opportunistic. "You can't say that there was no indigenous support," he says. "The Russians don't create this whole [alt-right] movement. They just harness it." Of course, so did Trump. But Watts believes the Russians, at least, are playing for much higher stakes than one presidential election. "The goal is to create division between communities," he says. "It is making you not trust the state. It's eroding the mandate of elected officials so that they can't govern properly. It's making people want to not participate in democracy because they think it's corrupt. It's getting you to either believe that it's all stacked against you or you just opt out altogether because you don't know what to believe. When you don't know what to believe, you'll believe anything."
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