A "news" story recently appeared on this mysterious site, USA News Today, claiming that Wikileaks was about to release an email that showed Clinton paid off Republicans last July to "push the Clinton agenda":
New information from Wikileaks is about to shake up the political world. Those in question are “Republicans in name only” or “RINOs.” An email from John Podesta to Huma Abedin that was released as document number 1078645 is about to turn the speculation that certain prominent Republicans who opposed Donald Trump into the truth that they were, in fact, not just disloyal to Trump and the party but were on Hillary Clinton’s payroll.
The email, sent in July of this year, describes how funds were being diverted from Clinton’s campaign to the Super PACS of Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, and John Kasich.
Strangely, there was no direct link to the Wikileaks Podesta email in question. There is also no information on this supposed news site about who its writers and editors are. When I searched Wikileaks for email 1078645, no such email ID was found.
The "news" story quoted the email directly:
“JB, CF, and JK PACS will be noticeably silent for the rest of the campaign. Each will receive a significant allowance from advertising budget. HRC is in the loop and has talked to all three personally. Eyes only.”
Yet key word searches pulled from this alleged direct quote also turned up no matches in Wikileaks.
BEWARE. This looks like an attempt to smear both Republicans and Wikileaks. Watch out for USA News Today. Always vet sources.
Perhaps those with more technical acumen than me can see who this site is registered to? This may be part of the same elaborate disinformation campaign that dreamed up the "Russians hacked the election" narrative and is warning Russians can plant CP on computers.
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B3nd3r ago
go to https://www.whois.net/
put the domain in the search field, receive info
Inspecto-Malarkium ago
Thanks! Yep, looks like Fake News:
SandorClegane ago
Randomly saw a link to this place on FB, just so you guys know this specifically is the same group that owns US Uncut. (spammer of all those fake post-election hate crimes) That particular Macedonian is a hardcore Berner. Obsessive about manufacturing things to harm Clinton in some way no matter the angle. (I hate that shit because there's so much real shit out there about her already, thanks a lot fagort!) US Uncut caters to Berners, this site caters to, well, this group.
Similar to that one that interviewed with WSJ and other msm sites to help build their narrative, he's a "leftist-no-matter-the-cost" even if that means drowning his own allies' credibility. In that guy's case if it was something that reflected poorly on Trump and got him money, he ran it. Just exchange Trump for Clinton for this guy's series of sites.
See CS' comment below for help on spotting these, also throw a couple of the shameless "we-report-anything" known sites, from dailybeast to WaPo into google, when you see a strange looking quote. If the quotes also don't appear there they're probably fake. Generally speaking be suspicious of anything launched 2014 onwards. If it's something that wouldn't make the MSM/clickbaiters (stuff like CIA movement, or foreign coups and the like) go hop to an older left-ideological focused site like Counterpunch or FPIF.org and see if it's mirrored there.
One thing that also helps is that there's very often a lot of incestuous link-partying going on (think Gawker) so if you notice a whole bunch of places with ads leading you in a circle, that's a nice indicator too. (Since it's usually plaintext adblock shouldn't block them.) Basically if the 'news site' styles its refs to partners like a generic blogging platform it's a fakeout.