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HuffPost Deletes Pay-to-Play Puff Piece on Former Trump Business Partner
Read more: HuffPost Deletes Pay-to-Play Puff Piece on Former Trump Business PartnerHuffPost deletes sponsored news story about controversial “Russia-gate” figure/former Donald Trump business partner Felix Sater Last week, I blogged about a coordinated PR campaign seemingly intended to burnish the reputation of controversial Russian-American real estate investor Felix Sater, who collaborated with Trump on a number of high-profile development projects. Now it emerges that U.S. news…
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Oh Betsy!
Read more: Oh Betsy!Did someone from Betsy DeVos’ investment firm try to scrub unfavourable information about members of the DeVos family from online bio? Last month, I blogged that former Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo paid an employee from his own PR firm to scrub Wikipedia of references linking him to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The story was…
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NBT Films: Debunked Again
Read more: NBT Films: Debunked AgainTechdirt reports my post about debunked YouTuber’s copyright complaint against fact-checking website Snopes source Via “Snopes Debunks Fake YouTube Video; Video’s Creator Responds With A Bogus DMCA Notice” by Tim Cushing, Techdirt, December 6, 2017: from the pressing-the-shut-up-button dept Nothing But the Truth Films (NBT) has a credibility problem. Oh, the irony, I would normally…
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Top Trumps Endorse Sater
Read more: Top Trumps Endorse SaterTop Trump Organization executives endorse controversial “Russia-gate” figure Felix Sater on business networking website LinkedIn As the federal investigation into Russia’s alleged election meddling heats up, a controversial Moscow-born real estate investor and former “Senior Advisor to Donald Trump” is back in the spotlight. Felix Sater gained notoriety during the 2016 election when his criminal past became…
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Sekulow Gets Blindsided
Read more: Sekulow Gets BlindsidedTrump-affiliated lawyer Jordan Sekulow’s rambling on-air response to news that former Trump adviser Michael Flynn had been charged with lying to the FBI Amid the American carnage of yesterday’s news that former national security adviser Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI, you might have missed this gem via Trump-affiliated lawyer…
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Faux News about Fox News?
Read more: Faux News about Fox News?Did Fox bury news that former Trump adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI? In October, I helped debunk the claim that Fox News failed to report the recent indictment of former Trump campaign aide Paul Manafort in favour of a story about cheeseburger emojis. Now comes the claim that Fox…
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