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TV's Frink
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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18-May-2017, 1:38 PM

Jetrell Fo said:

Here’s a headline I’m sure most of you will love, even I giggled a bit.

“FBI Uncovers Evidence That 62 Million Trump Voters are All Russian Agents!” I guess this means you guys woke up in Russia the day after the election.

😃

Oops! Since you didn’t provide any attribution, I Googled it, and here’s the very first thing that came up.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/may/17/blog-posting/fake-story-about-trump-voters-being-russian-agents/

A satirical story that said every American who voted for Donald Trump works for the Russian government appeared to have started as a parody on a neo-Nazi website.

“FBI uncovers evidence that 62 million Trump voters are all Russian agents!” read the headline on a May 15, 2017, post on USPoliticsInfo.com. The post was flagged by Facebook users as possibly being fake, as part of the social media site’s efforts to crack down on fake news.

The story is full of absurd details that make it obvious it’s a joke. It said that anonymous FBI sources had revealed the 62 million voters were employed by Russian intelligence (Trump garnered more than 62.9 million votes in the presidential election, almost 2.9 million less than Hillary Clinton).

The story also said Wikileaks was run by Vladimir Putin and conservative media personality Alex Jones’ real name was Alexi Jonesov. An unnamed FBI agent further said in the article that “it is highly possible that the Russians used a space-beam from a satellite to control their brains from a facility in St. Petersburg, and moved their bodies like puppets to the polls to check the Trump box” during the election.

The same story or portions of it also appeared on several other websites.

Most of the time, these fake news sites share the story without any attribution at all. But after some digging, we found that the original fake post came from the white supremacist website DailyStormer.com.

I’m not laughing yet.