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MSNBC likes to flash a click bait headline and then when you read the article it likely does not support the headline. Take this one: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mueller-has-interviewed-the-cybersecurity-expert-who-said-he-was-recruited-to-collude-with-the-russians/ar-AAtEyV7?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=spartandhp

When you read it you find it refers not to collusion with Russians but instead an effort to obtain and verify the notorious Hillary's emails and verify if she or the DNC has been hacked by anyone, not just the Russians. But, the article does refer to a loser who wrote his own separate article, and they include the link to it, who also used that click bait title to claim he was recruited to "collude" but instead he was asked for help in verifying, you guessed it, if Hillariy's or the DNC's email has been hacked.

So basically, MSNBC doubled down on fake click-bait with one fake news article with another fake news article to support the first fake news article. Well, I suppose if you double down then someone will believe the title and keep it front and center in their mind that somebody was recruited by the Trump organization to collude with the Russians and therefore Trump is bad.

I'd laugh except I feel so stupid reading both articles.

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ORIGINAL: LTE

MSNBC likes to flash a click bait headline and then when you read the article it likely does not support the headline. Take this one: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mueller-has-interviewed-the-cybersecurity-expert-who-said-he-was-recruited-to-collude-with-the-russians/ar-AAtEyV7?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=spartandhp

When you read it you find it refers not to collusion with Russians but instead an effort to obtain and verify the notorious Hillary's emails and verify if she or the DNC has been hacked by anyone, not just the Russians. But, the article does refer to a loser who wrote his own separate article, and they include the link to it, who also used that click bait title to claim he was recruited to "collude" but instead he was asked for help in verifying, you guessed it, if Hillariy's or the DNC's email has been hacked.

So basically, MSNBC doubled down on fake click-bait with one fake news article with another fake news article to support the first fake news article. Well, I suppose if you double down then someone will believe the title and keep it front and center in their mind that somebody was recruited by the Trump organization to collude with the Russians and therefore Trump is bad.

I'd laugh except I feel so stupid reading both articles.

Sigh....

Your link is NOT from MSNBC. It is from MSN.

It refers to the original story from Business Insider. Matt Tait told the Mueller team that he had been recruited by Peter Smith, who self-claimed that he was a GOP operative to VET hacked emails from dark-web sources (i.e. Russian hackers).


If it is true. it implies an intimate knowledge of and most likely collusion with Russian hackers.


Simply calling it fake news doesn't cut it.

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It refers to the original story from Business Insider. Matt Tait told the Mueller team that he had been recruited by Peter Smith, who self-claimed that he was a GOP operative to VET hacked emails from dark-web sources (i.e. Russian hackers).

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Peter Smith killed himself days after an interview with The Wall Street Journal in which he said he sought out Russian hackers to try to retrieve some 33,000 deleted Clinton emails and pass them to Michael Flynn, then a campaign adviser to Donald Trump.

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Yes. The passing to Flynn is the fake part, it implies he is acting on Flynn's instruction. It is a clever way of faking a connection to Trump. One can identify this type of subterfuge because the connector to Trump is never really spelled out but sort of waved at in passing.

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I suspected this would happen sooner or later. The Mueller team is closing in on the truth.

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Yes. The passing to Flynn is the fake part, it implies he is acting on Flynn's instruction. It is a clever way of faking a connection to Trump. One can identify this type of subterfuge because the connector to Trump is never really spelled out but sort of waved at in passing.

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NBC became BSNBC about the time MS bought them. <acronym hell there>

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Microsoft sold their part. It's all owned by NBC/Universal, which is now owned by Comcast.

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MSNBC likes to flash a click bait headline and then when you read the article it likely does not support the headline.

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ORIGINAL: MasterJaguar01

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Microsoft sold their part. It's all owned by NBC/Universal, which is now owned by Comcast.

That is correct. MS sold back in '05