While a handful of state-funded sites are included on the list, both the Washington Post and PropOrNot have come under withering criticism for engaging in McCarthyism by including dozens of respected sites like Naked Capitalism, Truthout, Truthdig, Consortium News and, initially, CounterPunch, on the list. (CounterPunch has since been removed and Naked Capitalism's lawyer has sent a scorching letter to the Washington Post demanding a retraction and an apology.) The widely read Paul Craig Roberts also landed on the blacklist. Roberts is a former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Economic Policy under President Ronald Reagan, a former Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal and a former columnist at BusinessWeek. He held Top Secret clearance when he worked for the U.S. government.
Wall Street On Parade closely examined the report issued by PropOrNot, its related Twitter page, and its registration as a business in New Mexico, looking for "tells" as to the individual(s) behind it. We learned quite a number of interesting facts.
As part of its McCarthyite tactics, PropOrNot has developed a plugin to help readers censor material from the websites it has blacklisted. It calls that its YYYCampaignYYY. In that effort, it lists an official address of 530-B Harkle Road, Suite 100, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505. That's one of those agent addresses that serve as a virtual address for the creation of limited liability corporations that want to keep their actual principals secret. The address has dozens of businesses associated with it. There should also be a corresponding business listed in the online archives of the business registry at the Secretary of State of New Mexico. However, no business with the words Propaganda or PropOrNot or YYY exist in the New Mexico business registry, suggesting PropOrNot is using a double cloaking device to shield its identity by registering under a completely different name.
PropOrNot's Twitter page provides a "tell" that its report may simply be a hodgepodge compilation of other people's research that was used to arrive at its dangerous assertion that critical thinkers across America are a clandestine network of Russian propaganda experts. Its Tweet on November 7 indicates that the research of Peter Pomerantsev, a Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute in London, who has also been cooperating on research with the Information Warfare Project of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington, D.C., inspired its efforts.
Read the rest on Wall Street on Parade.
Fake News = Propaganda
Always has been that way, usually govt run, and this is no secret, as Congress has authorized numerous funds over the past decade just for pro-American slate on the internet, especially in our military ops in the Middle East. Israel is big on this as well, paying students et al to twist and distort the data and talk/chatter on the net... if it isn't pro-pyschopath, then it is considered anti-Israel... same here in the States and the rest of our colonies in Europe and Japan.
The real threat of the Donald is his style of 'negotiation'... taking extreme positions first and waiting for the opposition to compromise before jumping in to accept the deal.... 'The Art of the Deal'... Trump style... which isn't classic 'diplomatic protocol', but then neither is the whole love of 'pizza' in the Beltway, London, Rome etc.
Still no data on who's behind PropOrNot... but it's obviously the usual suspects overseen by the usual intel operators... this game has been old and boring for at least the last couple of decades, and it isn't any wonder that so few are paying attention to the MSM... who are mostly reliant upon the WW2-Depression age generation that is dying off along with their 'news' sources... and most of them are now in retirement/nursing homes, so they really aren't paying attention to the tv/radio are they? The MSM hasn't expanded into the internet age very well..... 'old dogs' again, have trouble learning new tricks, as this 'fake news' BS illustrates.