I turned an earlier comment into a post, because I guess this is news to some people:
WaPo was bought by Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon) in 2013. Mid 2014, Amazon landed a $600 million contract with the CIA for a cloud computing system to share info between US intelligence and investigative agencies.
All of that is pretty incestuous, but the shenanigans continue. In 2013 Obama signed into law a modified version of the yearly NDAA bill that removed restrictions on state-sponsored propaganda. Many will remember this as the era where terms like "alt-right" and "fake news" were first used in the media. Interesting timing, considering the first draft of the bill was made available within days of Bezos' announcement that he planned to acquire WaPo.
(That's the same law where the US legalized indefinite detention of US citizens under nothing more than "suspicion of terrorist activity," but that's a story for another day. Just keep in mind that a dumb comment on the internet is full legal justification to get you "disappeared" in today's world.)
Which leads me to this piece of journalism, by NPR. Its too complicated to accurately summarize, but I urge everyone to read it. NPR article
In essence: NPR wanted to track down the author of a completely fabricated news story, used an IT pro to do some digging, and found a common username between several sites. Quoting NPR:
The sites include NationalReport.net, USAToday.com.co, WashingtonPost.com.co. All the addresses linked to a single rented server inside Amazon Web Services. That meant they were all very likely owned by the same company.
This story is utterly strange because it mirrors on a civilian level, right down to the names, exactly what the CIA, Amazon, and WaPo were doing, at the exact same time they were doing it.
Make of that what you will, but I think it was a "keyword smokescreen," basically an avalanche of red herrings injected into the news-sphere that makes a story disappear from search engines without actually censoring it. Another example of this was the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) materializing in the weeks leading up to the Bundy conflict with the Bureau of Land Management (also BLM). Basic searches for "BLM occupation" resulted in stories about hood-rats blocking traffic. "Oregon wildlife refuge occupation" would get you all the info you could possibly need on careers with the Oregon forestry services. And so on.
TLDR: WaPo is CIA.
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Vic_V ago
Im glad you noticed the search engine terms to make stuff disappear. Sometimes I feel like im the only one to notice that
tossyokeys ago
I'm glad someone was able to understand what I was trying to explain. Its a really hard concept to communicate. I've heard a few other anons on the chans mention this, but it seems to go over most people's heads.
Chimaira92 ago
This is why I fucking love voat.
I thought I was alone on this thing!
Gorillion ago
US guy, yeah? Main image was him standing alone in a vast expanse, bent over. Turns out he was throwing up the banana the reporter had given him because it was too rich for his starved and dehydrated stomach to handle, and they'd taken off to either get aerial shots or fetch proper help. Was it a two-seater heli or something? Very old story but I remember it. The banana thing stuck in my mind.
Chimaira92 ago
Yes, that's it.
He was given an interview straight away and 2 minutes in asked if they could get going. The interview lasts over 15 minutes including him staggering around, drinking from a dirty water source (fresh, cold water bottles on the helicopter), he "earned" his banana like he's some sort of performing monkey.
The banana made him ill so they drop him off and took aerial shots, used at the beginning of the news story to imply that's how they originally spotted him. Picked him back up after getting the shots, flew him an hour away instead of 5 minutes from a base because the News reporter was at the one an hour away.
Just so much bullshit it's astounding why people still watch Channel 9 here in Australia. Any MSM news for that matter.
tossyokeys ago
Wow, that story was brutal. I can see why certain people would want it buried. Very impressed with the guy from Media Watch though. Maybe things are different in Australia, but we don't seem to have hard-hitting reporters in the US anymore. It feels like the media is a national union or something. Reporters don't seem to speak critically of each other for fear of their own bad practices being exposed, or being fired.
Chimaira92 ago
I believe that story got burried the same week trump criticised CNN as fake news too.
Even though its old it speaks volumes as to what the media will do for a story and how fake they can be.