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Not sure how I feel about this report as a whole. It starts out fair enough going after this Charles Bausman person for regurgitating poorly-disguised Jews-are-bringing-down-Mother-Russia rhetoric, and Doctorow for endorsing his bad ideas, but from there the article goes off against fairly mainstream people and persons simply because they have at some point been in touch with Doctorow, who is apparently the link between ACEWA and the alt right. So the connection is Alt Right / Nazism -- Russia Insider/Bausman -- Doctorow -- ACEWA / Stephen F. Cohen, and then from there the rest of the targets of the piece are all fairly mainstream/left-leaning, if oft-problematic, news sites and commentators. There is even a chart linking all of them together using a web traffic tracker that clusters all of the people reading Russia Insider, and a number of those sites are frankly, important: CounterPunch, the Nation, the Intercept, etc. Others are apparently Iranian/Hezbollah-run state-sponsored channels. The rest are conspiracy theory websites. It reminds me of how when I would buy books about Palestine online, Amazon would recommend other books based on what other customers had purchased, and unfortunately many of these recommendations were Nazi literature. The inevitable result of niche content that does not have a large audience is that even the slightest thing can throw off a web algorithm, so it only takes a few people to screw with something like that. I think it would make more sense for them to criticize some of the individual groups and websites that are continuing to host or sponsor Nazi rhetoric or Putin apologism instead of going all out against the entire dissident internet ecosystem the way they did. They are painting with quite a broad brush. Amith R. Gupta On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Shocking investigative report on Stephen F. Cohen's Putinite lobby group, > Consortium News and the alt-right. > > https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/02/08/far-right- > influence-pro-kremlin-media-and-political-networks > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
