Blaming 2016 on Russian disinformation is American disinformation. The Republican controlled Senate Intelligence Committee released a report today outlining just how deep Russian interference in the 2016 election ran.
Entitled “The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization in
the United States, 2012-2018″ the report zeroes in on Russia’s Internet Research Association which used Google, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to promote Donald Trump’s candidacy.
Russ Baker is an award winning investigative journalist. He has written for the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Nation, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice, and Esquire, and has served as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. He is the founder of WhoWhatWhy.
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Who, What, Why Russ Baker on George H.W. Bush’s Sins Against Democracy. Russ is author of Family of Secrets published by Bloomsbury Press in 2008. Gore Vidal called it, “One of the most important books of the last ten years.” Family of Secrets describes alleged connections between the Bush family with the Central Intelligence Agency. The book asserts that President George H.W. Bush was linked to the Watergate scandal and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Order it here:
Comedian Dave Sirus says YouTube has a PewDiePie problem. Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, YouTube’s most popular vlogger continues to dabble in white nationalism, Maria Butina pleads guilty, David Pecker and The National Enquirer admit to making Karen McDougal payment to help Trump’s presidential campaign, and Michael Cohen gets three years.
Comic Kevin Bartini looks back at the week in weird, and tells us about men who vape viagra, how Christmas Eve is the most common time of the year to suffer a heart attack, nutritionists say we should eat more dirt, and a human heart is found on a Southwest jet.
Zack Ford is the LGBTQ editor for Think Progress and today he talks about Mika Brzezinski’s use of the word “butt boy,” Kevin Hart’s Oscar unworthy homophobic tweets, and the use of the word “queer” in the LGBTQ community.