Kremlin Falls For Its Own Fake Satellite Imagery (thedailybeast.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The Turkish downing of the Russian SU-24 jet last November saw a predictable series of statements from each side claiming complete innocence and blaming the other entirely. Social media was a key battleground for both sides — the Turkish and Russian governments, along with their supporters — as each tried to establish a dominant narrative explanation for what had just happened. In the midst of the online competition, a little-observed, funhouse mirror of an online hoax was brilliantly perpetrated, one with consequences likely exceeding the expectation of the hoaxster. The Russian Ministry of Defense was duped by a fake image that Russian state media itself had circulated more than a year earlier, as a way to deny Moscow's involvement in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

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Re:Story is BS

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What else is the regime in Kiev to be called? Even the current (illegal) "President" Petro Poroshenko has publicly admitted that the overthrow of his predecessor, President Yanukovych, was illegal.

'In a remarkable document, which is not posted at the English version of the website of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, but which is widely reported outside the United States, including Russia, Poroshenko, in Ukrainian (not in English), has petitioned the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (as it is being widely quoted in English):
'“I ask the court to acknowledge that the law ‘on the removal of the presidential title from Viktor Yanukovych’ as unconstitutional.”
'The official Ukrainian news-agency, Interfax-Ukraine, headlined this on June 20th, “Poroshenko asking Constitutional Court to recognize law stripping Yanukovych of presidential title as unconstitutional”'.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

As for "Russia Insider" being owned by the Russian government, can you please post details of how you know that to be true? If you don't, I'll assume your statement is unsupported.

It's irrelevant anyway. The reason I read sources such as RI and RT (among many others) is that the Western mainstream media are completely useless as impartial sources for international news. For a variety of reasons they have all been substantially subverted by Western governments - ironically, it is the Western MSM that is effectively government-owned, whereas RI and RT are relatively accurate and objective.

And, whereas you and others persist in calling me a troll, I am beginning to be fairly sure that it is you who are (mostly, at any rate) trolls. You do not seem to be in the least interested in facts, figures, logic, sources, or truth. If anyone dares to disagree with you, you simply insult them in the hope that they will give up in disgust. Well, I shan't. I am sure that many Slashdotters have open minds and want to know the truth, and it is worth putting up with a little childish mudslinging to help them.