WHY THE FBI'S INFOWARS-RUSSIA INVESTIGATION
IS COMPLETELY LUDICROUS
If the FBI really wants to find out who interfered in the election, they should investigate Google, Facebook & Twitter
BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
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 “hacking” the election.
Federal
investigators will probe whether Russian operatives created bots to
blitz social media with pro-Trump stories that harmed Hillary Clinton’s
campaign, including links from Infowars, RT, and Breitbart.
“Investigators
examining the bot attacks are exploring whether the far-right news
operations took any actions to assist Russia’s operatives. Their
participation, however, wasn’t necessary for the bots to amplify their
news through Twitter and Facebook,”
reports McClatchy.
Having
failed to stymie our accelerating growth for over a decade, long before
“Russian hacking” or “fake news” 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.
It’s
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.
As
we’ve seen from the establishment’s 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 which found that fake news had no impact on the outcome of the presidential election and if anything benefited Hillary Clinton.
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.
In
reality, it’s 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’s
chances.
Two months before the election, psychologist Robert Epstein and SourceFeed’s Matt Lieberman both
exposed
how Google was manipulating search results in relation to Hillary
Clinton to ensure “autocomplete suggestions were biased in favour of
Clinton”.
Typing in “Hillary
Clinton is” 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, “Hillary
Clinton is a liar,” or “Hillary Clinton is a criminal”.
This manipulation had the power to “shift as many as 3 million votes,” according to Epstein.
Wikileaks emails also
revealed
that John Podesta, Hillary’s campaign manager, sought to have “discreet
conversations” with the likes of Apple, Facebook and Google.
Other emails reveal that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
wanted to meet with the Clinton campaign, while Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg did
meet with Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills in 2015.
In
May 2016, it was reported that Facebook ordered its staff to suppress
stories deemed of interest or beneficial to conservatives by
manipulating its “trending” section to block them out.
Facebook staff also
told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially “inject” subjects into the trending section that were not organically trending.
Twitter was also doing its best to bury negative information about Hillary. In February 2016,
Vocative revealed how the company was censoring hashtags that made the Democratic candidate look bad.
The
hashtags #WhichHillary and #WhichHillaryCensored were removed from
Twitter’s trends list despite being considerably more active than other
hashtags that were allowed to trend.
The
mainstream media’s 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.
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.
We are being accused, with
zero evidence, of the exact kind of manipulation that Facebook, Google
& Twitter oversaw to help Hillary.
It’s also worth remembering that the ‘Russian bots control Infowars’ conspiracy
originated from Louise Mensch, who also thinks Putin had Breitbart murdered and was
exposed in the Wikileaks release of John Podesta’s emails as being a Hillary Clinton sycophant.
If
the FBI really wants to get to the bottom of who interfered in the
election – we suggest they start by investigating Google, Facebook and
Twitter.
The only interference Infowars had in the election is to make the better arguments – for that we are guilty as charged.
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 – and that can only be a good thing for
conservatives.