As the fall of 2016 wore on, it became clear that the “fake news” theme was an orchestrated one, consistently framed as having had an effect on the outcome of the November election.
Two additional data points serve to put this in enough context for the time being.
The weird purpose of Project Birmingham was to achieve exactly that: make fake news about Roy Moore go viral on social media. It was billed afterward as an “experiment.”
And a key reason all this not only matters but looks tied together, centers on a report accepted by the U.S. Senate on “Russians and fake news” in the 2016 election cycle.
In April 2018, Haney had hired Michael Cohen, one-time personal attorney to Donald Trump, to help him complete the purchase of the nuclear plant.
* On 31 October 2016, BuzzFeed was paid an additional $25,000 by another Democratic PAC, Americans for Responsible Solutions (the PAC run by Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly).