2017.05.17 Seth Rich

WaPo was silent on Seth Rich being the source of the WikiLeaks emails, or being murdered for it.

There was a lot of news around Seth Rich (murdered) of being the source of the WikiLeaks emails, including inferences from Julian Assange himself. Because it didn't fit WaPo's narrative, they were mum on the whole topic. The reports at the time are likely bullshit (and have since been altered or purged), but there was more evidence for it at the time than there was for most stories WaPo was running that was blaming it on "the Russians". Even if you only report something to refute it, suppressing things you don't like is called FakeNews.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2019-01-27

There was a lot of news around Seth Rich (murdered) of being the source of the WikiLeaks emails, including inferences from Julian Assange himself. Because it didn't fit WaPo's narrative, they were mum on the whole topic.

The reports at the time are likely bullshit (and have since been altered or purged), but there was more evidence for it at the time than there was for most stories WaPo was running that was blaming it on "the Russians". Even if you only report something to refute it, suppressing things you don't like is called FakeNews. So I'm unimpressed with them suppressing a story that they should have covered, even just to debunk or offer the evidence against.

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Fake News
While the term goes back 100 years, the history is summed up well by Sharyl Attkisson.

Washington Post
A once great paper, now a liberal fake news rag that looks more like Bezos Blog (or the DNC's blog) than an objective Newspaper.

WikiLeaks
I respect WikiLeaks, but am not realy a fan. They've done a service, and gotten people killed.

Seth Rich
Seth was murdered, after someone (not likely Russians) leaked John Podesta's emails.

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