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Re:Unsubstantiated Report Has Compromising Information on Trump by alva on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @08:18PM (#13370955)
"includes specific, unverified, and potentially unverifiable allegations of contact between Trump aides and Russian operatives"

"It is not just unconfirmed: It includes some clear errors."

If there is one thing you can get out of Trump's election, it is the methods of very powerful actors being brought into the light. Presumably due to the threat they face, panicking is revealing their structure and nature. This appears to be a full blown war.

edit: Oh and by the way, looks like was a 4chan hoax that started early November. Expect small font corrections over the next week. Thats Fake News for you.

edit edit: 4Chan hoax part was the "golden shower" section, that had been fed to political consultant and journalist Rick Wilson. This was included in the report.

edit edit edit: Quotes I provided were from Buzzfeed who first broke the story, at which point other papers covered. https://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/these-reports-allege-t...

Re:Unsubstantiated Report Has Compromising Information on Trump by akiselev on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @08:53PM (#13371112)
What are the clear errors?

I've been looking up small details like the names of the Russian officials mentioned (since I can easily read the Russian government websites) and names/times line up without any clear error. Details like Mikhail Kalugin's recall from the Washington embassy (easily checked against archives of Russian embassy websites) that weren't mentioned in any newsfeeds, including LexisNexis and other DB searches, are surprisingly accurate.

If this is a hoax, it's an extremely well executed one.

Re:Unsubstantiated Report Has Compromising Information on Trump by alva on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @08:56PM (#13371132)
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/these-reports-allege-t...

Check the disclaimers littered throughout.

Re:Unsubstantiated Report Has Compromising Information on Trump by akiselev on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @09:11PM (#13371200)
There's nothing "littered throughout." There is a few sentences in the middle that say:

It is not just unconfirmed: It includes some clear errors. The report misspells the name of one company, “Alpha Group,” throughout. It is Alfa Group. The report says the settlement of Barvikha, outside Moscow, is “reserved for the residences of the top leadership and their close associates.” It is not reserved for anyone, and it is also populated by the very wealthy.

Those aren't errors. Alfa Group is the spelling the company uses but the Russian names Альфа and Альфа-Банк are most commonly translated as Alpha and Alpha-Bank, including by many of the sources cited by the relevant Wikipedia article. I don't know if you've ever been to Barvikha but there are multiple "settlements" there that are fenced or guarded and where you can only build if you get approval from the local officials. I don't know if any of them are for party insiders but it wouldn't be a stretch considering Barvikha holds one of the official Presidential resorts.

Re:Unsubstantiated Report Has Compromising Information on Trump by maxander on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @08:52PM (#13371106)
Neither of the phrases you quote appear in the article. What are you talking about?

Evidence 4chan had anything to do with it would be interesting, if you can provide it.

Re:Unsubstantiated Report Has Compromising Information on Trump by toehead2000 on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @08:34PM (#13371026)
Do you have a link to something describing the hoax?
Re:Unsubstantiated Report Has Compromising Information on Trump by DefaultUserHN on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:01PM (#13377005)
From the hoaxer himself here...

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5nbqfu/mfw_the_...

Even other news stations are calling out BuzzFeed for publishing #FakeNews.

Re:Unsubstantiated Report Has Compromising Information on Trump by mcphage on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @09:08PM (#13371189)
The methods of very powerful actors being brought to light are... falling for your hoaxes?
Re:Unsubstantiated Report Has Compromising Information on Trump by DefaultUserHN on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:04PM (#13377030)
It's not the powerful actors that are falling for the hoaxes. It is the American people who are falling for the hoaxes.
Re:Unsubstantiated Report Has Compromising Information on Trump by mcphage on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:39PM (#13377307)
American people have always fallen for hoaxes. Hell, even Trump got into politics riding the Birther hoax.