Thread by @MrGoldstein7

🧵👇 Zerohedge republished graphics from SEMRush that supposedly show the popularity of various news outlets, including the Washington Post.
zerohedge.com/political/thes…

Focusing to start with on just the Washington Post—which we know is the CIA's own newspaper, written out of Langley—study those charts for a moment. Notice the number for monthly visitors is given as 47,000,000. It was that or 33,000,000.

Year one of the CIA was 1947, so they love that number. Already telling us these numbers are faked and fudged.

According to the first chart, the Post is the 9th most popular source in the US, ahead of ABCNews, the Guardian, BBC, and USAToday. Doesn't feel right already, does it?

That's because it isn't right, and they admit that in the second graph. Notice there how low all the Post's numbers are, compared to say ABCNews. The Post scores 100 in DC, and 36 in Maryland, but in the single digits almost everywhere else.

Whereas ABCNews scores above 50 almost everywhere. The only place which has numbers almost as pathetic as the Post is the LATimes, but the LATimes has only six states in single digits, while the Post has 35.

You will say we have to weight that by population, but it doesn't help, since DC and Maryland have about the lowest populations of any states. The only decent state the Post has in its column is Virginia, but even in Virginia the Post only scores a 29.

So we may deduce the popularity of the Post is overstated by a huge margin in the first graph, confirming our suspicion that the number 47 was just made up.

We can get a thumbnail idea of how inflated that number is by first adding up all the numbers from the Post and the LATimes, and dividing by 51. The Post's number is 11, while the LATimes number is 18.

But it is even worse than that, because the LATimes biggest numbers come in the largest states like California. It does almost as well in Virginia as the Post, and even does well in DC.

So we can estimate that the LATimes is about twice as popular nationwide as the Post. Which would put the Post's number at something like 16 million, not 47 million.

As backup, let's do the same thing for ABCNews. Its average number is 59.5, and we see huge numbers of 100 and 96 in the big states of Pennsylvania and Illinois.

So I estimate ABCNews has at least nine times the viewers of the Post. Which would make the Post's number 4 million, not 47 million.

That is assuming the given numbers for ABCNews and the LATimes are correct, which we see they probably aren't—since they give us different estimates for the Post's correction. This tells me the number for the LATimes is also probably inflated.

Averaging both those corrections gives us something on the order of 10 million for the Post, which still seems high to me. If we assume the LATimes number is also inflated, it puts the Post's number closer to 4 million than to 16 million.

So we have just crunched their own statistics to show they are overestimating their own numbers by around 10 times, and maybe much more.

They also seem to be inflating the popularity of YahooNews. Why would they do that? Because Google doesn't need any help right now, but YahooNews does.

All this tells us that SEMRush must be some sort of CIA front. It isn't hard to confirm that, since they admit they have a headquarters in Limassol, Cyprus. Why would an SEO company come out of Limassol, unless they were Phoenicians?

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