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To: FJB who wrote (988945)	12/19/2016 10:00:08 AM
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Here We Go=> US Lawmakers Move to Criminalize ‘Fake News’ Propaganda on the Web Dec 19th, 2016 7:36 am by Jim Hoft FAKE NEWS is a problem. And we all know what the biggest Fake News story was this year. Reuters reported on November 8th that Hillary Clinton had a 90% chance of winning. The New York Times reported on November 8th that Hillary had an 85% chance of winning. Five Thirty Eight blog said Hillary had a 71% chance of winning. Pollster Frank Luntz tweeted this out on Election Day. So fake news is a serious problem. And now US lawmakers are going to take action. We Are Change reported: The witch hunt for “fake news” and “Russian propaganda” has been kicked up a notch, after the House passed a bill quietly tucked inside the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, designed to crack down on free speech and independent media. Under “Title V—Matters relating to foreign countries,” the bill seeks to “counter active measures by Russia to exert covert influence … carried out in coordination with, or at the behest of, political leaders or the security services of the Russian Federation and the role of the Russian Federation has been hidden or not acknowledged publicly.” It lists media manipulation as: Establishment or funding of a front group.Covert broadcasting.Media manipulation.Disinformation and forgeries.Funding agents of influence.Incitement and offensive counterintelligence.Assassinations.Terrorist acts. “It is easy to see how this law, if passed by the Senate and signed by the president, could be used to target, threaten, or eliminate so-called ‘fake news’ websites, a list which has been used to arbitrarily define any website, or blog, that does not share the mainstream media’s proclivity to serve as the Public Relations arm of a given administration,” Global Research reported.