Right-Wing Media Outlets Duped by a Middle East Propaganda Campaign | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78983933 India 07/07/2020 02:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you want a hot take about the Middle East, Raphael Badani is your man. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78067678 As a Newsmax “Insider” columnist, he has thoughts about how Iraq needs to rid itself of Iranian influence to attract investment and why Dubai is an oasis of stability in a turbulent region. His career as a “geopolitical risk consultant and interactive simulation designer” and an “international relations senior analyst” for the Department of Labor have given him plenty of insights about the Middle East. He’s printed those insights at a range of conservative outlets like the Washington Examiner, RealClear Markets, American Thinker, and The National Interest. Unfortunately for the outlets who published his articles and the readers who believed them, Raphael Badani does not exist. His profile photos are stolen from the blog of an unwitting San Diego startup founder. His LinkedIn profile, which described him as a graduate of George Washington and Georgetown, is equally fictitious. Badani is part of a network of at least 19 fake personas that has spent the past year placing more than 90 opinion pieces in 46 different publications. The articles heaped praise on the United Arab Emirates and advocated for a tougher approach to Qatar, Turkey, Iran and its proxy groups in Iraq and Lebanon. Following this article’s publication, the Washington Examiner removed its article written by “Badani,” leaving only an editor’s note: “This op-ed has been removed after an investigation into its provenance and authorship.” Spiked, a British libertarian site, added a note atop both its articles by a fake persona, saying the outlet “takes seriously any claim of questionable authorship.” The National Interest, The Post Millennial, and The Jerusalem Post, meanwhile, all deleted their articles without any statement. Newsmax deleted all articles by “Badani” and scrubbed his profile page listing him as an “insider”—all without any editor’s notes. The network’s spree of hot takes targeted a range of publications and placed articles critical of Qatar and supportive of tougher sanctions on Iran in conservative North American outlets like Human Events and The Post Millennial, founded by conservative writer Andy Ngo, as well as Israeli and Middle Eastern newspapers like The Jerusalem Post and Al Arabiya, and Asian newspapers like the South China Morning Post. [link to www.thedailybeast.com (secure)] i drained all of memri's internal dox before they even came officially online [link to twitter.com (secure)] <<<< another composite state propaganda mouthpiece |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 78419874 Canada 07/07/2020 03:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Most conservatives that I KNOW only read web sites with totally uncensored comments sections. And there ain't a lot of those! And even then, they don't believe half of what they read, that is for sure! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 78027659 United States 07/07/2020 03:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fake news Newsmax, publishing fake news from an unverified fake source. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78103754 What else is new? 1000x better than CNN Because Newsmax gives you the fake news that you want to believe? FFS, what a sheepish fuckwit. Fake news and lies are just that, and it’s propaganda regardless of where they come from. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78027659 United States 07/07/2020 03:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | LOL, so who was duped exactly? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78419874 Most conservatives that I KNOW only read web sites with totally uncensored comments sections. And there ain't a lot of those! And even then, they don't believe half of what they read, that is for sure! Newsmax, the Washington Examiner, RealClear Markets, American Thinker, and The National Interest were al, duped, among others. |
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