Originally Posted by Bucco

Perchance, the moderator will allow a conversation on factual reporting, I would like to add this as a result of analyzing the indictments of the Russians. These are not my words, but those of Evan Osnos who wrote a great pice in the New Yorker on these indictments and their meaning...
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"The power of news illiteracy. At the heart of the Russian fraud is an essential, embarrassing insight into American life: large numbers of Americans are ill-equipped to assess the credibility of the things they read. The willingness to believe purported news stories, often riddled with typos or coming from unfamiliar outlets, is a liability of today’s fragmented media and polarized politics. Even the trolls themselves were surprised at what Americans would believe. According to the indictment, in September, 2017, once U.S. authorities had begun to crack down on the fraud, one of the defendants, Irina Viktorovna Kaverzina, e-mailed a family member, saying, “We had a slight crisis here at work: the FBI busted our activity (not a joke). So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the colleagues.” She went on, “I created all these pictures and posts, and the Americans believed that it was written by their people.”
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We Americans seem to simply accept what we want to accept and the truth of the matter, or validity of facts is ignored.

Then to know these same people are entering into the fray concerning our children dying.

It has been chilling to hear so called Americans discussing what these indictments actually mean...the simply reinforce what the Russians already know about us.