Was Facebook Pressured Into Finding ‘Something’ to Implicate Russia?

Robert Parry of Consortium News just published an extremely important article picking apart The Washington Post’s latest attempt to convince readers that Russia influenced the 2016 U. S. election. In this case, by purchasing a measly $100,000 of Facebook ads.
The Washington Post, which has a history of falsely claiming certain dissent-minded websites work for the Kremlin, is owned by billionaire Amazon founder and CIA partner Jeff Bezos. When it comes to Russia hysteria, the paper is in a class of its own.
What follows are some key excerpts from Parry’s piece, WPost Pushes More Dubious Russia-bashing. You should read the entire thing and share.
Some people are calling the anti-Russian hysteria being whipped up across the U. S. mainstream news media a new ‘golden age of American journalism,’ although it looks to me more like a new age of yellow journalism, prepping the people for more military spending, more ‘information warfare’ and more actual war.
I know that some people feel that the evidence-lite and/or false allegations about ‘Russian meddling’ are the golden ticket to Trump’s impeachment. But the unprofessional behavior of The New York Times, The Washington Post and pretty much the entire mainstream media regarding Russia-gate cannot be properly justified by the goal of removing Trump from office.

This post was published at Liberty Blitzkrieg on Sep 26, 2017.