3 ms·
Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist from a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group Kind've breathless writing there, almost Trumpish. Myself, I discount anything that G
by CalChris 10y ago
Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist from a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group
Kind've breathless writing there, almost Trumpish. Myself, I discount anything that Greenwald says. Slate has a more sober reaction:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/25/how_russian_propaganda_used_facebook_to_spread_fake_news_during_the_election.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/25/how_russia...
- lern_too_spel 10y agoGreenwald's reporting has always been incredibly inept (to this day, he won't admit how wrong he was about PRISM). The culture of making wild accusations and not interviewing subjects of a story to verify the facts continues to pervade the organization.
- tastythrowaway2 10y agoin what way(s) was he wrong about PRISM?
- lern_too_spel 10y agoHe claimed that NSA analysts could read anybody's communications straight off the internet companies' servers. Multiple journalists, bloggers, tech workers, companies, and even the government corrected him and pointed out how he misread the slides, but he continues to make that claim.