(January 11, 2017 at 1:25 pm)Aegon Wrote: Oh give me a break.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/no-that-t...chan-hoax/
Quote:The supposed “proof” for the 4chan genesis theory was a November 1 post on 4chan’s /pol/ board in which an anonymous user claimed he gave Republican “Never Trump” operative Rick Wilson a fake story about Trump and Russian spies.
That’s certainly vague to begin with, but note the date: November 1. Mother Jones was reporting on the memo as early as October 30. In a tweet, MJ’s David Corn confirmed that the memo published by Buzzfeed was the same one he received… before the supposed trolling.
More to the point, everything we know about the memo’s source from CNN and The New York Times contradicts the notion that it could possibly be 4chan or Wilson. According to those outlets:
-The intelligence community knows who the source is, and considers him generally reliable
-The author of the memo is ex-British intelligence, with extensive Russian contacts
-The intelligence community also knows his cources and considers them”credible”
-Some of the memos were circulating as early as the summer of 2016
Some /pol/lacks (uh, their term, not mine) have gotten around these inconvenient facts by claiming Wilson used independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin as an intermediary. But again, McMullin is ex-CIA, not MI6.
Wilson himself came out and bluntly said he wasn’t Buzzfeed’s source. “I’ll settle it this way; if — arguendo — I had been their source, I hereby release the authors of the story, its editors, and BuzzFeed generally from any off-the-record/background protections of anonymity I would have asked for,” he said. Since Buzzfeed hasn’t subsequently come out and named Wilson as their source, it seems likely it wasn’t him.
The Nov 1st 4chan post was 4chan reacting to the media believing the info they were previously fed.
Dumb article is dumb.
Either way, the 'no evidence it is 4chan' argument is kind of ironic, seen as there's no evidence for any of this bullshit in the first place.
