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<\/a>\nPaul Joseph Watson
\nInfowar.com<\/p>\n
The revelation that the FBI is investigating whether Infowars assisted in helping Russian operatives as part of a secret cyber operation to help Donald Trump win the presidency is the ludicrous culmination of four months of wall to wall leftist hysteria about Moscow \u201chacking\u201d the election.<\/strong><\/p>\n Federal investigators will probe whether Russian operatives created bots to blitz social media with pro-Trump stories that harmed Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign, including links from Infowars, RT, and Breitbart.<\/p>\n \u201cInvestigators examining the bot attacks are exploring whether the far-right news operations took any actions to assist Russia\u2019s operatives. Their participation, however, wasn\u2019t necessary for the bots to amplify their news through Twitter and Facebook,\u201d reports McClatchy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Having failed to stymie our accelerating growth for over a decade, long before \u201cRussian hacking\u201d or \u201cfake news\u201d was even a thing, this partisan investigation is a transparent attempt to silence and censor Infowars by ludicrously impugning us as a conduit for Kremlin propaganda.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also incredibly ironic given that the only evidence of tech outfits interfering in the election to deliberately help a certain candidate implicates Google, Facebook and Twitter in manipulating their own algorithms to aid Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n As we\u2019ve seen from the establishment\u2019s fake news narrative, this is nothing less than a ruse to try to ban legitimate news coverage and dissenting opinion, despite a Stanford University study<\/a> which found that fake news had no impact on the outcome of the presidential election and if anything benefited Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n By declaring Infowars to be little more than a front for Russian bots, with no evidence whatsoever, this provides Facebook, YouTube and Twitter a pretext with which to ban and censor our content.<\/p>\n In reality, it\u2019s these very companies, cheered on by the left, that used techniques not too dissimilar to the claims about Russian bots to game their own algorithms in a desperate attempt to boost Hillary Clinton\u2019s chances.<\/p>\n Two months before the election, psychologist Robert Epstein and SourceFeed\u2019s Matt Lieberman both exposed<\/a> how Google was manipulating search results in relation to Hillary Clinton to ensure \u201cautocomplete suggestions were biased in favour of Clinton\u201d.<\/p>\n Typing in \u201cHillary Clinton is\u201d to Google only returned positive suggested results, whereas when users searched identical terms in other search engines such as Bing or Yahoo, the first results suggested were things like, \u201cHillary Clinton is a liar,\u201d or \u201cHillary Clinton is a criminal\u201d.<\/p>\n This manipulation had the power to \u201cshift as many as 3 million votes,\u201d according to Epstein.<\/p>\n Wikileaks emails also revealed<\/a> that John Podesta, Hillary\u2019s campaign manager, sought to have \u201cdiscreet conversations\u201d with the likes of Apple, Facebook and Google.<\/p>\n Other emails reveal that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wanted to meet<\/a> with the Clinton campaign, while Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg did meet<\/a> with Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills in 2015.<\/p>\n In May 2016, it was reported that Facebook ordered its staff to suppress stories deemed of interest or beneficial to conservatives by manipulating its \u201ctrending\u201d section to block them out.<\/p>\n Facebook staff also told Gizmodo<\/a> that they were instructed to artificially \u201cinject\u201d subjects into the trending section that were not organically trending.<\/p>\n Twitter was also doing its best to bury negative information about Hillary. In February 2016, Vocative revealed<\/a> how the company was censoring hashtags that made the Democratic candidate look bad.<\/p>\n The hashtags #WhichHillary and #WhichHillaryCensored were removed from Twitter\u2019s trends list despite being considerably more active than other hashtags that were allowed to trend.<\/p>\n The mainstream media\u2019s constant barrage of fake news which suggested Hillary was anything up to 98% certain to win the presidency was also a deliberate attempt to manipulate Trump supporters by convincing them their vote was worthless.<\/p>\n All of these examples of tech companies deliberately gaming their algorithms to help Hillary are documented, whereas conspiracy theories about Infowars working with Russian bots are backed up by nothing but hot air.<\/p>\n We are being accused, with zero evidence, of the exact kind of manipulation that Facebook, Google & Twitter oversaw to help Hillary.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also worth remembering that the \u2018Russian bots control Infowars\u2019 conspiracy originated<\/a> from Louise Mensch, who also thinks Putin had Breitbart murdered and was exposed<\/a> in the Wikileaks release of John Podesta\u2019s emails as being a Hillary Clinton sycophant.<\/p>\n If the FBI really wants to get to the bottom of who interfered in the election \u2013 we suggest they start by investigating Google, Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n The only interference Infowars had in the election is to make the better arguments \u2013 for that we are guilty as charged.<\/p>\n Unfortunately for the left, their obsession with baseless, paranoid delusions about vast Russian conspiracies will continue to hinder any kind of real examination as to why they lost \u2013 and that can only be a good thing for conservatives.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n