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It's funny that they are being honest about the likely contents of the cache? "both authentic and falsified documents" was speculated in the DNC/Russia hacks,
by gertef 9y ago
It's funny that they are being honest about the likely contents of the cache?
"both authentic and falsified documents" was speculated in the DNC/Russia hacks, and also claimed to be the Russia Today strategy abotu news, and whether it was true or not then, it's clearly a clever idea for any future crackers.
- non_sequitur 9y agoFrom BBC: "The campaign said the documents showed only legitimate campaign activities." From WSJ: "The cache includes both authentic and falsified documents “with the goal of sowing doubt and disinformation,” the campaign said."
- imron 9y ago> "both authentic and falsified documents" was speculated in the DNC/Russia hacks, Yes, that claim was made many times, including by people directly implicated by the leaks, and yet and later it was found that they were all true, with not one source pointing out an actual fake email or document.
- abritinthebay 9y agoThere was plenty of selected editing by Wikileaks - which is what most reports about that referred to. The actual sources, no. But given the sources we're rarely presented as the first point of information by the main distributor... it's a fair criticism
- imron 9y agoI'm not sure what you mean by selective editing. The original emails are all there, including verified DKIM signatures for many of them. Are you suggesting they only included the bad ones, selectively leaving out any good ones?
- abritinthebay 9y agoI'm talking about their presentation an initial editing. To their credit, they did make the original emails available - which mostly showed that what the claimed was in them was... well, mostly lies. At best half-truths. That's what I mean by selective.
- imron 9y agoCan you please provide links to one specific instance of this?