Here's a prime example of how a story started as a joke and made it all the way to Fox News reported as
fact.
It started as (1) a parody on a Russian website, then (2) was posted on Facebook, then (3) was reported as legit on Russian TV (propaganda), who added a fake quote from a U.S. Naval officer, then (4) printed as a legit story on the British tabloids "The Sun" and " The Daily Express" (UKIP/Nigel Farage affiliated) then finally (5) reported as factual by the good parrots at Fox News.
The question is whether each party knew that it was bulls**t at every step, the Rightwing Brit press was knowingly circulating Russian propaganda, or if it's like the old kid's game where one person whispers a story to another and then 4 or 5 persons later we end up with something that is totally different than what was first said. The Russian disinformation campaign seems deliberate though, with the fake quote provided.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...=top-news&_r=2
The boys at Fox dropped it like a hot potato when the NYT expose broke.
David Frum @davidfrum
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MSM vs Fox punchline: "After The New York Times asked about the article, it was deleted from the foxnews.com website."
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