In case you missed it, an anonymous website called ProporNot.com has recently sprung up on the web with a list of supposed Russian propaganda sites. It’s tagline is “Your friendly neighborhood propaganda identification service since 2016!”
There is no WHOIS information about the site other than it was registered through GoDaddy.com. It has only existed since August 2016. The bio on the site claims it is “an independent team of concerned American citizens with a wide range of backgrounds and expertise, including professional experience in computer science, statistics, public policy, and national security affairs,” but the site has refused to identify anyone involved with it.
The list it released includes some 200 websites, The Daily Sheeple included, that it claims are part of a “large-scale information campaign” that “is deceptively injecting Russian propaganda into American public discourse online” and that “this propaganda is undermining our public discourse by providing a warped view of the world, where Russia can do no wrong, and America is a corrupt dystopia that is tearing itself apart.”
We at The Daily Sheeple have never written that “Russia can do no wrong”. We have, however, written extensively about the wrong done by our own government, however, as have many sites on the list.
That is what the press is supposed to do… hold our government accountable. It’s why founding father Thomas Jefferson once said, “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
Most major alternative news sites and information sites are on said list, including Wikileaks, DCLeaks, Global Research, Zero Hedge, Activist Post, Natural News, Washington’s Blog, Drudge Report, and many others. Just like the other so-called “fake news” list widely publicized in the mainstream media, this one is obviously biased, pro-American mainstream establishment, and thus, it’s kind of like the pot calling the kettle black.
It seems as if anyone who writes anything against the American government is automatically being accused of peddling Russian propaganda now. The site doesn’t discuss the fact that outlets like Russia Today report on events that the American mainstream media blacklists, thus leaving the alternative media little choice but to search for information from an outlet that will actually report on them.
There is no proof of who actually runs ProporNot.com. There are no names anywhere on it. Anyone can write a bio that claims a site is run by a team of experts, but that does not automatically make it true.
Worse, though, is that Washington Post wrote a hit piece on all the sites included on ProporNot’s list, claiming the site is literally run by “experts” — without any due diligence or a shred of proof other than the site’s own claims.
Titled, “Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say,” the WAPO story not only upholds the claims of a random, anonymous, and relatively new website, but a website that is formally calling on the FBI to investigate us and other alt news sites on the list for espionage:
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/our-response-to-being-included-on-propornots-mccarthyite-blacklist-of-supposed-russian-propagandists-touted-by-wapo-as-written-by-experts_112016
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