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Russian Hackers Targeted More Than 200 Journalists Globally (apnews.com)
The Associated Press: Russian television anchor Pavel Lobkov was in the studio getting ready for his show when jarring news flashed across his phone: Some of his most intimate messages had just been published to the web. Days earlier, the veteran journalist had come out live on air as HIV-positive, a taboo-breaking revelation that drew responses from hundreds of Russians fighting their own lonely struggles with the virus. Now he'd been hacked. The Associated Press found that Lobkov was targeted by the hacking group known as Fancy Bear in March 2015, nine months before his messages were leaked. He was one of at least 200 journalists, publishers and bloggers targeted by the group as early as mid-2014 and as recently as a few months ago. The AP identified journalists as the third-largest group on a hacking hit list obtained from cybersecurity firm Secureworks, after diplomatic personnel and U.S. Democrats. About 50 of the journalists worked at The New York Times. Another 50 were either foreign correspondents based in Moscow or Russian reporters like Lobkov who worked for independent news outlets. Others were prominent media figures in Ukraine, Moldova, the Baltics or Washington.
Let's not forget that the Bush Administration was manufacturing the lies in the first place. They wanted the war in the first place.
They stumbled onto the information given out by the informant called "Curveball" and ran with it despite skepticism from the various Intelligence agencies.
Information that proved to be false. Also, they found journalists who were willing to go along with them or wouldn't look to closely at the lies.
All contradictory journalism was condemned. Unfortunately for war supporters, they didn't have the term "fake news" to use.
We are now still enduring the consequence of that rush to war. In a hundred years, historians may well view the 2nd Iraq War as the lead up
to America's decline and fall as a superpower.
And Vladimir Putin is trying to help hurry that decline along!