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"Over the period of our monitoring we have found over 1,000 mass media reports that described elections or mentioned them indirectly, but these were not just informational reports. Foreign mass media have deliberately engaged in propaganda, in Russian and on Russian territory," head of the commission, Senator Andrey Klimov, was quoted as saying Wednesday by TASS.Most of these reports originated from the US mass media, Klimov noted.
"They [US media] published over a half of the total number of reports, and also mass media from Great Britain, France and Germany. Over the campaign period for one positive report we counted 55 reports or articles that were deeply negative."Klimov also said that 12 Russian-language outlets belonging to western mass media directly violated Russian law when they released propaganda targeting Russian voters.
"Most of them are organizations that get their funding in the United States, usually through the US State Department as they are parts of the so-called BBG [Broadcasting Board of Governors]."Western journalists had attempted to sully President Vladimir Putin's reputation, promoted candidates that had the weakest voter support and also slandered the electoral process, according to Klimov.
"In respect of Karl Marx, I think he must be turning in his grave to see what the country that was founded on many of his precepts is doing in the name of supporting Syria by condoning the use of chemical weapons on Syrian territory."
Comment: It will be all about what is in the regulatory board's idea of programming (MSM) or deprogramming (Alt. News) to make the determination (for the entire populace) on what is considered 'fake news'.