'Science'? NBC Still Hyping Slanted Studies That 'Russian Propaganda' Helped Trump Win
By Tim Graham | July 6, 2019 11:16 PM EDT
On July 4, The Wall Street Journal posted an article headlined "Trump, Social Science, and Media Bias." Richard Hanania, a research fellow at Columbia University, asserted "Mr. Trump’s media critics often accuse him of ignoring inconvenient facts, while they grant academics and other scholars the status of arbiters of truth and falsehood... Unfortunately, the media’s antipathy towards Mr. Trump has caused bias to infect social-science reporting."
They still can't stop urging Americans to believe that the 2016 election was tainted by Russian tampering. They can't accept the results as real.
Look no further than NBC's Ken Dilanian, who wrote the latest Keep Hope Alive article titled "New study shows Russian propaganda may really have helped Trump." He championed a study by Damian Ruck of the University of Tennessee that he claimed "demonstrates that Trump's gains in popularity during the 2016 campaign correlated closely with high levels of social media activity by the Russian trolls and bots of the Internet Research Agency, a key weapon in the Russian attack." Hanania took this apart:
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https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2019/07/06/hanania
