zero hedge

---

8/17?/20 just showed up as launch pt for some BS conspir; Biden ukraine derach just made it new again, ron johnson boosting?

MERRI OK

NOTE WUHAN LAB AND MACRON DOC FORGERY STD RUSSIA TECHNIQUES

SEE KARO SPOX

SHILLENBERGER morano CHINESE HOAX?

ALT RT

SWAMP INCUBATOR ECHO ESCAL POSO DON JR MEME GEN GATEWAY PIZZA

GAI

---

---

FBI

10 2020

LA

acoSTA TOLD EPS IS ALLIED INTEL AGY; DERS AND EPS TALK --> MOSSAD WD CALL FOR DEBRIEF; EPS CLOSE TO BARAK AND TRAINED AS SPY UNDER HIM; BARAK THOT BB CRIM; EPS COOPEDTED MOSSAD AGENT;

DRUKOVA DAY ONE VENTURES STEAL TECH

CHABAD PUTIN JEW OLIG; RABBI SCHEERSOM; KSH STAKE IN CADRE NOT DISCL; JK MOVED RUSS $; CHABAD LAUNDER

CRAIG HOROWITZ ARTL 2004; KEN KURSON KNOWS;

KISSENGAR CHS KUSH INTRO TO CUI TUANAKAI CHIN AMB; ANBANG NEGOT 666 5TH AVE

M COHEN BEV HILL HSE UNDER MKT

RENDA REX TILLERSON NY POST SMEARS // STATE DEPT

LEON BLACK BWTR ARMS HU TRFFICK; CEO APOLLO 50M TO EPS 184M LOAN TO JK // 666

ELLIOT BROIDY PLED LANDER; PLAYBOY MODEL; JOEL MOWBRAY --> JEW; REP ED ROYCE, WIFE LOBBYIST;

GAWKER DISINFO 2016? --> ZERO HEDGE

---

---}:

Arabella Archives - The Automatic Earth

Arabella is the mothership of over 200 NGOs.

Trump Calls For RICO Charges Against Soros; Gates Foundation Severs Ties (ZH)}:

The “dark money” network operated by Arabella Advisors has reportedly lost one of its top funding sources: a leftist billionaire’s foundation. Equally significant in the news cycle this morning, President Trump stated on Truth Social that George Soros and his radical leftist son, Alex Soros, “should be charged with RICO because of their support of violent protests.” A New York Times report indicates that the Gates Foundation has halted funding to nonprofit funds managed by Arabella, choosing instead to work directly with some partners rather than through intermediaries. In its internal announcement, dated June 24 and sent to some Gates employees who oversee grant programs, foundation officials did not mention politics. Instead, they cited a desire to engage more directly with grant recipients and cut back on the use of intermediaries like Arabella entities.

*> Trump: "George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America." pic.twitter.com/KBxuyAaisF

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 27, 2025

“Teams are increasingly working directly with programmatic partners — organizations that are deeply embedded in the communities we serve and closely aligned with our mission,” the note reads. “As we look ahead, this is a chance to build deeper, more durable relationships with those partners — and to reinforce the kind of legacy we want to leave behind.” -NYT” Tracing the Arabella network’s donors is tricky. But according to the NYT, the Gates Foundation has plowed $450 million into the network since 2008, which in turn funneled money into other nonprofit entities, ranging from radical leftist climate groups to abortion initiatives, and even supporting the permanent protest-industrial complex against President Trump.

https://twitter.com/seamusbruner/status/1933626755358863457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1933626755358863457%7Ctwgr%5E1e0fde66960c2c75df873fe2087d2cf266f22afb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fgates-foundation-cuts-ties-arabella-advisors-linked-funding-radical-leftist-causes}:

With President Trump back in the White House and investigations focusing on corruption across the Democratic Party’s funding and nonprofit infrastructure, as well as ActBlue investigations, the risks for Bill Gates’ progressive NGO empire have never been greater. The move to cut ties could have happened even sooner, according to two people, one close to the foundation and one with knowledge of Arabella’s internal operations. Over the last few years, Arabella has become a target of conservative watchdogs because of its work with groups that funnel money toward progressive causes. With President Trump back in the White House, the political risks have only mounted. -NYT Peter Schweizer and Seamus Bruner of the Government Accountability Institute recently revealed a report that detailed how the rogue anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ front group, waging a permanent protest against all things Trump, “bagged $114.8 million from the Arabella dark money network.”*

The Gates Foundation told NYT that the move to sever ties with Arabella was “a business decision that reflects our regular strategic assessments of partnerships and operating models.” NYT’s report on Arabella comes hours after NBC News confirmed Gates met with Trump at the White House on Tuesday afternoon. More details from the report: • Some nonprofits are distancing themselves from Arabella to keep Gates funding. • Several groups have started exiting Arabella’s New Venture Fund (NVF), which serves as a fiscal sponsor for 170+ projects and has funneled billions into progressive causes. • While Gates once accounted for a significant share of NVF funding, in 2023 its contribution was only 2%. Still, losing Gates threatens Arabella’s influence and revenue streams.

:{:{Read more …}:

---

---

omfg

an 5 25

During a White House press briefing on Monday, a journalist from the far-right website ZeroHudge, seated in the newly designated "new media" section, posed an unusual question to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt regarding the Department of Justice's handling of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Cosgrove referenced the conspiracy theory known as the "Clinton body count," which suggests that numerous individuals connected to the Clintons have died under suspicious circumstances. He specifically mentioned the death of Mark Middleton, a former Bill Clinton aide, who was found dead on a Clinton Foundation property. Cosgrove then inquired when the Justice Department would release additional files pertaining to Epstein's case, particularly those that might reveal connections to intelligence agencies or blackmail activities.

Leavitt responded by directing him to the Department of Justice for a timeline.

READ MORE:A dangerous new lie is being peddled by Trump's toadies

Social media users — including journalists and political commentators — expressed surprise at the question, noting that individuals with a history of promoting conspiracy theories now have access to the White House press room.

IFrame Content

IFrame Content

IFrame Content

Political analyst Mehdi Hasan wrote on the social platform X while reacting to Cosgrove's question: "Difficult to summarize just how abnormal and weird and insane this is. There is no ‘Imagine if Biden…’ or ‘Imagine if Obama…’ equivalent scenario you can even come up with."

HuffPost's White House correspondent S.V. Date wrote: "White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt invites conspiracy theorist Zerohedge to the 'new media' seat and their 'reporter' asks about the Clinton "body count" and Jeffrey Epstein's ties to intel agencies, including Israel's. Congrats, America. Good job."

User Kathy Young wrote: "So this 'journalist's' actual purpose there was not to ask questions of the press secretary, it was to peddle an insane conspiracy theory and zing the Washington Post."

READ MORE:'Betrayed': Alarm sounded as GOP 'plotted behind closed doors to hurt even more families'

Political podcaster Tim Miller said: "This is too insane to capture in a tweet. The guy doesn't stop rambling. It's like they pulled an addled random with a bullhorn from Lafayette Square and brought them into the briefing room with a sheaf of printed out WorldNetDaily articles."

Journalist Brian Frydenborg wrote: "The White House Press room under Trump 2.0: a farce."

Political commentator Rachel Bitecofer wrote: "Back to the beginning of when Republicans started to go crazy with 'the Clintons are mass murderers' stuff from the 90s."

"We are witnessing the North Koreaization of the American media in real time," wrote a user.

"I feel bad for the real journalists in the room," wrote another.

"The 'new media' correspondent in the White House today is conspiracy theorist and @zerohedge correspondent Liam @cosgrove_iv. Leavitt's job is pure entertainment, not news," remarked an X account.

---

---

https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/incompetence-biology-professor-expertly-debunks-right-wing-silicon-valley-guys-bogus-article-claiming-coronavirus-spread-is-being-exaggerated/

no lnx

‘Incompetence’: Biology professor expertly debunks right-wing Silicon Valley guy’s bogus article claiming coronavirus spread is being exaggerated

Image via Shutterstock.

Written by Alex Henderson March 23, 2020

On March 21, Medium.com published an article by Silicon Valley resident Aaron Ginn claiming that the mainstream media’s reporting on the coronavirus pandemic is wildly exaggerated and that COVID-19 isn’t spreading to the degree that the media are reporting. Medium has since removed Ginn’s article, which was republished on Zero Hedge — and which biology professor Carl T. Bergstrom vigorously debunks in an in-depth Twitter thread.

“This thread could be far longer than it is,” Bergstrom writes, “but I’m doing my best to only discuss the most glaring flaws.”

In his article, Ginn wrote that “hysteria” was driving the discussion over coronavirus and went on to use so-called “data” to make his argument. But Bergstrom, in his thread, explains why Ginn’s arguments are both misleading and dangerous.

Ginn claimed that “COVID-19 is spreading, but probably not accelerating.” According to Bergstrom, “The author discusses the apparent decline in daily growth rate irrespective of control measures. He begins with some truism about small numbers being easy to move; this is irrelevant in the face of the exponential growth that he stresses.”

1. I hate to invest precious time on taking apart the atrocious @aginnt article pictured below, but it is getting too much traction here and even in traditional media.

This thread could be far longer than it is, but I’m doing my best to only discuss the most glaring flaws. pic.twitter.com/EFA7ATQRbX

— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) March 22, 2020

Bergstrom goes on to write that Ginn “fails to see that this drop in apparent growth rates is heavily driven by left censoring and shifts in testing strategy. Testing started at different times in different countries, was influenced by case density, and early-on, tests individuals in all stages of disease.”

Ginn wrote, “Cases globally are increasing — it is a virus, after all — but beware of believing metrics designed to intentionally scare like ‘cases doubling.’ These are typically small numbers over small numbers and sliced on a per-country basis.”

Bergstrom, in response, tweets, “That the virus can cross national boundaries does nothing to negate the importance of spatial structure and within-country analysis.”

Bergstrom adds, “I hate to ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence, but using this lie to sweep away the disaggregated data is such utter nonsense that I wonder how a Silicon Valley guy could make this claim by mistake.”

6. The author discusses the apparent decline in daily growth rate irrespective of control measures. He begins with some truism about small numbers being easy to move; this is irrelevant in the face of the exponential growth that he stresses in literally the previous sentence. pic.twitter.com/ZTGRlzEsZr

— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) March 22, 2020

9. Disaggregating data is essential to provide context, especially for transmission processes. That the virus can cross national boundaries does nothing to negate the importance of spatial structure and within-country analysis. Aggregating data obscures critical patterns. pic.twitter.com/UsD5a37kxK

— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) March 22, 2020

9. Disaggregating data is essential to provide context, especially for transmission processes. That the virus can cross national boundaries does nothing to negate the importance of spatial structure and within-country analysis. Aggregating data obscures critical patterns. pic.twitter.com/UsD5a37kxK

— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) March 22, 2020

Ginn used the “bell curve” to make his argument that “hysteria” is driving the conversation on coronavirus. But Bergstrom asserts, “This is unsubstantiated bullshit. If the bell-curve were a ‘law of nature,’ it shouldn’t necessarily apply to the vast range of human responses that people take to stop epidemics. Yet this assertion is supported with data from places where interventions slowed things down.”

Ginn writes that “93% of people who (think) they are positive aren’t.” And Bergstrom responds, “This is just misleading. Being tested is not the same as thinking you are positive. Did your doctor ever order a rapid flu test or strep culture or a chest x-ray for pneumonia? When you did, did you think YOU were positive? Same deal with COVID19, esp in places like S. Korea.”

14. This is unsubstantiated bullshit. IF the bell-curve were a “law of nature”, it shouldn’t necessarily apply to the vast range of human responses that people take to stop epidemics. Yet this assertion is supported with data from places where interventions slowed things down. pic.twitter.com/ASrkdKzj6p

— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) March 22, 2020

==

---

original china hoax reply

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-03/un-official-admits-global-warming-agenda-really-about-destroying-capitalism

./.Figueres admitted that the Global Warming conspiracy set by the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, of which she is the executive secretary, has a goal not of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity, but to destroy capitalism. She said very casually:

“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”

She even restated that goal ensuring it was not a mistake:

“This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”...

---

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/265895292191248385?lang=en

Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "The concept of global warming ...

Nov 6, 2012 - The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. ... (((Michael Levine)))‏ @MichaelWHill 6 Nov 2012

---

https://www.mediamatters.org/trump-impeachment-inquiry/far-right-trump-defenders-blast-russia-aligned-ukrainian-lawmakers

as  testimony was underway during the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, far-right defenders of the president rapidly spread false and unsubstantiated information in an attempt to bolster a Republican-backed conspiracy theory about Hunter Biden and Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company that previously had Biden on its board of directors.

On November 20, Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland testified before the House Intelligence Committee and provided further support for the central premise of the impeachment inquiry. Sondland confirmed that he believed Trump directed an effort to hold up security assistance to Ukraine unless the country announced an investigation into his political adversaries. Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and others close to the president have repeatedly pushed the evidence-free claim that, as vice president, Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to fire a prosecutor because that prosecutor was investigating Burisma, where his son worked at the time. (In fact, the prosecutor in question was corrupt, and no Burisma investigation was being carried out at the time when Biden was tasked with advancing the broadly held Western foreign policy goal of pressuring Ukraine to fire the prosecutor.)

While the hearing was underway, conspiracy theory website ZeroHedge published an article claiming that Burisma founder Nikolai Zlochevsky had been indicted by Ukraine’s prosecutor general, and that evidence indicated that Hunter Biden and other Burisma board members had received money embezzled by Burisma from Ukrainian citizens.NBC News reported that the claims in the ZeroHedge article were “incorrect,” as Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky has not been indicted, but that “didn’t stop allies of President Donald Trump from widely disseminating the false account of an indictment, seizing on some truthful elements while wildly extrapolating others.” According to a report from Reuters, Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Ruslan Ryaboshapka, did announce on November 20 an escalation into his investigation of Zlochevsky to include suspicion of embezzlement, but he “did not provide evidence or details” or mention Biden. Reuters added that the investigation is “is effectively on hold” because “the Ukrainian authorities cannot determine Zlochevsky’s whereabouts.”

According to NBC News, the claim that Burisma’s founder had been indicted was shared by tens of thousands of users on Twitter during the first hour after it was published. Social media analysis tool CrowdTangle showed that by the morning of November 21, the ZeroHedge story had been shared on Facebook pages with a total of nearly 5.5 million followers. The story also began to trend on Reddit’s toxic “r/The_Donald” subreddit. In particular, the story was initially popularized on Twitter by an account purporting to be a news organization, @BreakingNLive, that was suspended from the platform later in the day.

The false story reached Trump’s inner circle on Twitter, with Donald Trump Jr. liking a tweet promoting the ZeroHedge article sent by Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec. (Posobiec appears to have subsequently deleted the tweet.) On YouTube, the indictment claim is being promoted by Red Pill News, a channel verified by YouTube that has 176,000 subscribers, and a channel belonging to far-right congressional candidate Joey Saladino, which has 252,000 subscribers.

Beyond Posobiec, the ZeroHedge claims were pushed on social media by other prominent far-right conspiracy theorists including Jerome Corsi, Bill Mitchell, and cartoonist Ben Garrison. Proponents of the far-right pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory were also behind the social media push. As NBC News reported, “One minute before the ZeroHedge article was published, the anonymous account that inspired the QAnon conspiracy theory — generally known as 'Q' — linked to the same” article that formed the basis of the claims promoted at ZeroHedge. Major QAnon accounts, including @Jordan_Sather_ and @EyesOnQ subsequently promoted the ZeroHedge article. NBC’s Ben Collins reported that “Q” later made a post complaining about the suspension of @BreakingNLive.

Beyond social media, the claims first popularized by ZeroHedge were also featured on disreputable right-wing conspiracy theory websites Infowars and The Gateway Pundit as well as smaller such platforms including The Federalist Papers, WayneDupree.com, [your]News, The Daily Coin, and MAGA Daily Report. (Hannity and Fox “straight news” program Fox News @ Night later covered the Reuters report as well, while featuring pictures and a discussion of Hunter Biden.)

:{The source of ZeroHedge’s story appears to be an article from Interfax-Ukraine that repeated unsubstantiated claims about illegal payments from Burisma to Biden made by Ukrainian Members of Parliament :{ Andriy Derkach a}:nd Oleksandr Dubinsky at a press conference they held at the news agency, where they did not offer evidence to back their claims.:{ Interfax-Ukraine’s parent company is a Russian business, Interfax, that was recently praised by Vladmir Putin as making “a major contribution to strengthening the authority and prestige of journalism.}:” Derkach’s claim about the payments isn’t new. As Time reported, in recent months Derkach has repeatedly made public statements alleging improper payments from Burisma to Biden. Those statements failed to catch on in the way the statements made at the press conference on Wednesday did. Other Ukrainian lawmakers have accused Derkach -- who does not belong to a political party and, according to Time, “studied in the early 1990s at Russia’s top intelligence academy” -- of advancing the interests of Russia, which is currently waging a war against Ukraine.

According to Kyiv Post, Derkach has made separate accusations about Biden receiving improper payments in an offshore account while providing “no evidence to support these accusations.” According to Ukraine experts interviewed by NBC News, Derkach and Dubinsky are “not credible” and likely held the press conference to boost Trump.}:

==

https://www.mediamatters.org/maga-trolls/fake-news-and-alt-right-are-pushing-forged-documents-aid-marine-le-pen-frances-election

Forged documents originating on 4chan alleging that French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was evading taxes spread online thanks to an ecosystem that includes social media, “alt-right” outlets, and fake news purveyors. The campaign was seemingly aided by Russian-linked entities, and it subsequently reached Macron’s opponent, who aired the claim in a public debate.

Macron is competing in a May 7 runoff against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. On May 3, hours before a scheduled debate between Macron and Le Pen, an anonymous user on 4chan posted documents purporting to show that Macron used a shell company to dodge taxes. Users on the forum responded that the documents should be sent to “independent journalists” and “the alternative media” like “Cernovic (sic), Breitbart, and so on,” and encouraged each other to “spam” the documents “on social media” such as Twitter to get “it trending.” They also said to “send it to Le Pen.” The documents soon spread on Twitter, with many of the Twitter accounts promoting them appearing to have connections to Russia, according to a Belgian researcher. The claim was promoted by “alt-right” media figures such as Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec.

That these figures would attempt to smear Le Pen’s opponent is not surprising given that Le Pen is widely admired by much of the “alt-right” and closely tied with Russia.

Along with Twitter, 4chan’s campaign was picked up by forums on 8chan and Reddit; “alt-right” fringe outlets The Gateway Pundit, Got News, Zero Hedge, and Daily Stormer; and fake news purveyor Before It’s News.

The 4chan-based documents eventually reached Le Pen herself. During her debate with Macron, she said, “I hope that we will not find out that you have an offshore account in the Bahamas.”Le Pen later backed down on her claim, and Macron filed a legal complaint against her for the statement.Multiple outlets have reported that the documents were fake, with The Telegraph noting that they were “widely denounced ascrudeforgeries.” Additionally, following Le Pen's accusation, the French prosecutor's office has opened an investigation regarding “suspicions of fake news being spread to influence Sunday's presidential vote.”

The case is yet another example of the way the misinformation ecosystem involving the “alt-right” and fake news purveyor:{s amplifiesfringe falsities and lies (and even Kremlin-connected conspiracy theories). The network has often succeeded in pushing those false claims into more traditional conservative and mainstream outlets and, thus, the public realm.}:

---

an 919

no lnx

Who fed Donald Trump his bogus Ukraine conspiracy theories?

Written by David Atkins / Washington Monthly September 30, 2019

One of the more bizarre elements of Donald Trump’s self-inflicted Ukraine scandal is his seemingly genuine belief that some nefarious Democratic scheme is hidden on Ukrainian computers. And one of the most important questions we should be asking is where he got that information.

First, some context: while most of attention has focused on the White House’s hamfisted attempt to gather dirt on the Biden family and its apparently widespread (and illegal) misuse of classification to hide politically damaging and legally incriminating information, there is also another sideplot: his conspiracy theory that Clinton’s missing emails, and perhaps other nefarious things, are somehow being stored on Ukrainian servers. This is a reference to what is known as the “Crowdstrike” conspiracy theory, a very fringe right-wing conspiracy theory so bizarre it barely makes it way onto onto Fox News. Rachel Sandler breaks it down at Forbes thus:

Silicon Valley-based CrowdStrike was hired in 2016 by the DNC to investigate the origins of the hack. The company didn’t give the DNC’s physical server to the FBI, which has been seized on by conspiracy theorists as evidence of a cover up.

According to the theory, which has been prominent on right-wing blogs and news websites and repeated by Trump and former campaign consultantRoger Stone, Democrats and CrowdStrike concocted evidence to frame Russia for the hack in order to discredit Trump’s win in 2016.

The supposed evidence of Russia’s innocence relies on the belief that a DNC server has been hidden in Ukraine, possibly by CrowdStrike’s cofounder Dmitri Alperovitch.

That belief may stem from a statement by President Trump in a 2017 interview with the Associated Press, in which he questioned why the FBI didn’t look at the DNC server, that CrowdStrike is owned by “a very rich Ukrainian.” Alperovitch is actually a Russian-born American citizen.

The theory is, of course, totally bogus. It’s also an attempt to absolve Russia of its culpability in the hacking of the DNC:

Ultimately, the president seems to be alluding to an idea that alt-right commentators and pro-Russia sympathizers have pushed for years: that CrowdStrike was wrong about Russia hacking the DNC—and, moreover, that CrowdStrike intentionally blamed Russia for political reasons. CrowdStrike’s findings have, of course, been repeatedly affirmed by the intelligence community, the Justice Department, members of Congress, and the office of Robert Mueller. Last year the government indicted a dozen Russian intelligence officers for their role in the hacking plot…

These straw-grasping claims and distortions of fact are fuel for the fire of disinformation. Further, the notion that there is some missing “server,” and that the server might exist somewhere—like in Ukraine—has no basis in reality. The DNC’s network consisted of many servers and computers which either had be put out to pasture, rebooted, or rebuilt to rid them of malware and intruders. As the DNC explained in a 2018 lawsuit filed against the Russian government, it had to “decommission more than 140 servers, remove and reinstall all software, including the operating systems, for more than 180 computers, and rebuild at least 11 servers” as a result of the hacking.

The unanswered question in all this is how Donald Trump came to believe in this nonsense, and why he continues to believe it. His own employees and administration official tried again and again to disabuse him of these notions, but he refused to give them up:

President Trump was repeatedly warned by his own staff that the Ukraine conspiracy theory that he and his lawyer were pursuing was “completely debunked” long before the president pressed Ukraine this summer to investigate his Democratic rivals, a former top adviser said on Sunday.

Thomas P. Bossert, who served as Mr. Trump’s first homeland security adviser, said he told the president there was no basis to the theory that Ukraine, not Russia, intervened in the 2016 election and did so on behalf of the Democrats. Speaking out for the first time, Mr. Bossert said he was “deeply disturbed” that Mr. Trump nonetheless tried to get Ukraine’s president to produce damaging information about Democrats.

Rudy Giuliani has been significantly involved in the obsession over Ukraine, as his bizarre spiels on cable news networks have amply demonstrated.Most recently he claimed to have been attempting to prove that Donald Trump (and, by extension, the Russians) was “framed by the Democrats”–a notion that Trump recently promoted on twitter.

But it seems unlikely Giuliani has been Donald Trump’s primary conspiracy theory conduit. Rather, he seems to have been roped into it by Trump, and enjoys the cable news limelight.

One might think that Trump got the information from random corners of the internet. But the problem there is that the president barely knows how to use a computer, and has to have articles printed out for him and put on his desk.

So who was feeding him these conspiracies? Why did he continue to believe them even as his own intelligence services and White House staff were attempting to disabuse him of them?

We still don’t know. But we deserve to find out.

David Atkins is a writer, activist and research professional living in Santa Barbara. He is a contributor to the Washington Monthly’s Political Animal and president of The Pollux Group, a qualitative research firm.

---

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/politics/trump-ukraine-conspiracy.html

How a Fringe Theory About Ukraine Took Root in the White House

President Trump has promoted a false conspiracy theory involving Democrats, an obscure security firm and the 2016 election — including on a call with the Ukrainian president that has led to an impeachment inquiry.

/The New York Times

By Scott Shane

Oct. 3, 2019

In an April 2017 interview with The Associated Press, President Trump suddenly began talking about the hack of the Democratic National Committee a year earlier, complaining that the F.B.I. had not physically examined the compromised server.

“They brought in another company that I hear is Ukrainian-based,” the president said.

“CrowdStrike?” the surprised reporter asked, referring to the California cybersecurity company that investigated how Russian government hackers had stolen and leaked Democratic emails, disrupting Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

“That’s what I heard,” Mr. Trump resumed. “I heard it’s owned by a very rich Ukrainian; that’s what I heard.”

More than two years later, Mr. Trump was still holding on to this false conspiracy theory. In his July call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, he summed it up in a sort of shorthand— at least according to the White House memorandum, labeled “not a verbatim transcript.”

“I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say CrowdStrike … I guess you have one of your wealthy people …,” the president said. It is unclear whether the ellipses indicate that words were omitted or that Mr. Trump’s voice was trailing off.

Then he added one novel detail: “The server, they say Ukraine has it.”

Now, Mr. Trump’s call for Ukraine to look into his CrowdStrike story forms the background to the House impeachment inquiry, which is focused on the second request he made: that Mr. Zelensky investigate Mr. Trump’s possible 2020 opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Mr. Trump has placed a concoction of disprovable claims, of the kind usually found on the fringes of the web, squarely in the middle of American politics and diplomacy.

The tale of the supposedly hidden server may have appealed to Mr. Trump because it undercut a well-established fact that he has resented and resisted for three years: The Russian government interfered in the 2016 election to help him win, an effort thoroughly documented by American intelligence agencies and amply supported by public evidence.

By contrast, there is no evidence to support the president’s vague suggestion that Ukraine, not Russia, might be responsible for the hacking, or that CrowdStrike somehow connived in it. But his alternate history has provided a psychological shield for the president against facts that he believes tarnish his electoral victory.

Mr. Trump has long called for better relations with Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia and brushed aside complaints about its conduct. So there is a certain symmetry to his suggestion that Ukraine, Russia’s opponent and the victim of its territorial grab, may somehow have framed Russia for the 2016 election activity.

“Ukraine is the perfect scapegoat for him, because it’s the enemy of Russia,” said Nina Jankowicz, a fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington who regularly visits Ukraine and is writing a book called “How to Lose the Information War.”

She noted that a number of Ukraine-linked stories, some of them distorted or exaggerated, have been pulled together by Mr. Trump’s supporters into a single narrative.

For example, there is the idea, promoted by the president’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, that Ukraine’s government actively sabotaged Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign. A Ukrainian-American lawyer who consulted for the D.N.C. looked into the finances of Paul Manafort and spoke with Ukrainian embassy officials. But there appears to have been no organized Ukrainian government effort to intervene — certainly nothing comparable to the activities of Russian intelligence agencies ordered by Mr. Putin.

It is true that a Ukrainian legislator helped publicize documents on Mr. Manafort’s multimillion-dollar payments from a Ukrainian political party, leading to his resignation as Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman. But the claim of Mr. Manafort’s wrongdoing turned out to be justified. He is now serving seven and a half years in prison for financial fraud and other crimes.

In May, Mr. Trump recalled the American ambassador to Kiev, Marie L. Yovanovitch, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016, telling others she was scheming against his administration. She has denied it.

And Mr. Trump has repeatedly charged that Mr. Biden, who handled Ukrainian affairs as vice president, tried to get a prosecutor fired for investigating a Ukrainian energy company that paid his son, Hunter, handsomely as a board member despite a lack of experience in Ukraine. In fact, multiple countries were pressing for the firing of the prosecutor, who they thought was turning a blind eye to corruption.

“Now it seems like all of these conspiracy theories are merging into one,” Ms. Jankowicz said. She studies disinformation, she said, but Mr. Trump produced one claim she’d never come across.

“I do this for a living, and I’d never heard anyone say the servers were in Ukraine,” she said.

Twitter removed a video posted by Mr. Trump that showed a meme of Nickelbacker’s lead singer, edited as an attack on Joe Biden.

In the 27 months between Mr. Trump’s two citations of the CrowdStrike-Ukraine conspiracy theory,it has survived despite many denials from CrowdStrike, the F.B.I. and people directly involved in the investigations. It has survived despite the fact that the D.N.C. put one of its hacked servers on display — not in Ukraine but in its Washington offices beside the filing cabinet pried open in 1972 by the Watergate burglars(and a photo of the two artifacts ran on The Times’s front page). It has survived despite the indictment prepared last year by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, laying out in extraordinary detail the actions of 12 named Russian military intelligence officers who hacked the D.N.C. and other election targets.

The speculation springs from what Mr. Trump has called a “big Dem scam”— the false notion that the F.B.I. never really investigated the D.N.C. hack. In fact, according to people directly involved, CrowdStrike was in regular contact with the bureau in spring 2016 as it examined dozens of servers used by both the D.N.C. and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

It is true, as Mr. Trump has often tweeted, that F.B.I. agents never took physical possession of the Democrats’ servers. But CrowdStrike supplied the F.B.I. with digital copies of the servers so that the bureau could assess the Russian malware infecting them. The Mueller investigation later confirmed CrowdStrike’s findings.

Still, the president has clung to the theory linking CrowdStrike, Ukraine and the D.N.C. servers despite the repeated efforts of his aides to dissuade him, Thomas Bossert, his former homeland security adviser, said on Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “The D.N.C. server and that conspiracy theory has got to go,” he said. “If he continues to focus on that white whale, it’s going to bring him down.”

To go in search of the roots of Mr. Trump’s CrowdStrike-Ukraine conspiracy theory is to travel the internet’s most peculiar provinces and the darkest threads on Twitter and Facebook. On 4chan and pro-Trump spaces on Reddit, on websites like ZeroHedge.com and Washington’s Blog, you can find plenty of speculation about evil manipulation by CrowdStrike and secret maneuvers by Ukrainians — often inflamed by Mr. Trump’s own statements.

Until the president’s statements, however, even internet speculation did not attribute CrowdStrike’s ownership to a rich Ukrainian or suggest that the D.N.C. servers were hidden in Ukraine.

George Eliason, an American journalist who lives in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists fought Ukrainian forces, has written extensively about what he considers to be a “coup attempt” against President Trump involving American and Ukrainian intelligence agencies and CrowdStrike. He said he did not know if his writings for obscure websites might have influenced the president.

“CrowdStrike and Ukrainian Intel are working hand in glove,” he wrote in an email. “Is Ukrainian Intelligence trying to invent a reason for the U.S. to take a hardline stance against Russia? Are they using CrowdStrike to carry this out?”

Mr. Eliason and other purveyors of Ukraine conspiracies often point to the Atlantic Council, a research group in Washington, as the locus of the schemes. The Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk has made donations to the council and serves on its international advisory board; Dmitri Alperovitch, CrowdStrike’s co-founder, who was born in Russia and came to the United States as a child, is an Atlantic Council senior fellow.

That connection seems slender, but it may be the origin of Mr. Trump’s association of a wealthy Ukrainian with CrowdStrike.

Pro-Trump media leaped last week to defend the president’s Ukraine theories. Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show that Mr. Trump’s “reference to CrowdStrike, mark my words, is momentous,” though he did not say why.

And Russian state news outlets are always ready to cheer on Mr. Trump’s efforts to point the blame for the 2016 hack away from Moscow. On Sept. 25, after the White House released its memo on the Zelensky call,Russia’s Sputnik news website ran a story supporting Mr. Trump’s remarks.

The Sputnik article cited Mr. Eliason’s writingsand suggested that CrowdStrike might have framed Russia for the D.N.C. hack — if it occurred at all. It quoted a Twitter account called “The Last Refuge” declaring: “The D.N.C. servers were never hacked.”

All this mythmaking about the 2016 hack frustrates Robert Johnston, who was the lead investigator for CrowdStrike on the D.N.C. inquiry. Mr. Johnston, a former Marine and Cyber Command operator, said he could make no sense of Mr. Trump’s assertions.

“It doesn’t connect with anything in my experience,” he said. “I’d be interested in the president of Ukraine’s impression.”

Mr. Johnston, now chief executive of the cybersecurity company Adlumin, said he was weary of the conspiracies surrounding what he considered a straightforward conclusion. Having seen the digital fingerprints of Russian intelligence in earlier hacking cases, he felt there was little doubt about the identity of the perpetrators.

“I don’t know how you get to this point,” Mr. Johnston said of the fantasies Mr. Trump has promoted. “This is a story that just won’t die.”

A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: How Tale of Sabotage Took Root in Oval Office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/politics/trump-ukraine-conspiracy.html

---

==

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/05/05/fake-news-and-alt-right-are-pushing-forged-documents-aid-marine-le-pen-frances-election/216305

Forged documents originating on 4chan alleging that French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was evading taxes spread online thanks to an ecosystem that includes social media, “alt-right” outlets, and fake news purveyors. The campaign was seemingly aided by Russian-linked entities, and it subsequently reached Macron’s opponent, who aired the claim in a public debate.

Macron is competing in a May 7 runoff against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. On May 3, hours before a scheduled debate between Macron and Le Pen, an anonymous user on 4chan posted documents purporting to show that Macron used a shell company to dodge taxes. Users on the forum responded that the documents should be sent to “independent journalists” and “the alternative media” like “Cernovic (sic), Breitbart, and so on,” and encouraged each other to “spam” the documents “on social media” such as Twitter to get “it trending.” They also said to “send it to Le Pen.” The documents soon spread on Twitter, with many of the Twitter accounts promoting them appearing to have connections to Russia, according to a Belgian researcher. The claim was promoted by “alt-right” media figures such as Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec.

That these figures would attempt to smear Le Pen’s opponent is not surprising given that Le Pen is widely admired by much of the “alt-right” and closely tied with Russia.

Along with Twitter, 4chan’s campaign was picked up by forums on 8chan and Reddit; “alt-right” fringe outlets The Gateway Pundit, Got News, Zero Hedge, and Daily Stormer; and fake news purveyor Before It’s News.

The 4chan-based documents eventually reached Le Pen herself. During her debate with Macron, she said, “I hope that we will not find out that you have an offshore account in the Bahamas.” Le Pen later backed down on her claim, and Macron filed a legal complaint against her for the statement. Multiple outlets have reported that the documents were fake, with The Telegraph noting that they were “widely denounced as crude forgeries.” Additionally, following Le Pen's accusation, the French prosecutor's office has opened an investigation regarding “suspicions of fake news being spread to influence Sunday's presidential vote.”

The case is yet another example of the way the misinformation ecosystem involving the “alt-right” and fake news purveyors amplifiesfringe falsities and lies (and even Kremlin-connected conspiracy theories). The network has often succeeded in pushing those false claims into more traditional conservative and mainstream outlets and, thus, the public realm.

==

https://www.mediamatters.org/zero-hedge

Zero Hedge began in 2009 as a financial blog focused on market analysis, but has since pushed many right-wing conspiracy theories.

---

no lnx, below

https://www.mediamatters.org/maga-trolls/facebook-promoting-conspiracy-theory-website-zero-hedge-trending-topics

Facebook is promoting conspiracy theory website Zero Hedge in Trending topics

WRITTEN BY ALEX KAPLAN

:{:{PUBLISHED 01/26/18}:

Sarah Wasko / Media Matters

Facebook has repeatedly featured the blog Zero Hedge -- which is known for trafficking in conspiracy theories and misinformation -- on its pages for news Trending topics. And at least once in the past week, the blog was the featured news source for a story on the Trending topics section of the news feed.

Facebook has recently claimed it is taking steps to combat the spread of fake news and misinformation on its platform, which proliferated around and after the 2016 election cycle. One of the key moments leading to Facebook’s misinformation problem was its decision in August 2016 to fire its “news curators” and put the Trending topics section under the control of an algorithm. The appearance of Zero Hedge as a news source in that section shows the algorithm is still struggling with curating credible news sources.

:{Zero Hedge was initially launched as a financial blog in 2009 and has repeatedly trafficked in the same ecosystem as The Gateway Pundit and Infowars. The latter two are conspiracy theory websites that, along with :{4chan’s “politically incorrect” message board (commonly referred to as /pol/}:), are well known for spreading misinformation.

INSERT: TAKEN DOWN? EPSTEIN CONVINCED TO REBOOT?!

Infowars and Gateway Pundit have become so notorious that even some conservatives have spoken out against them. Zero Hedge sometimes pushes conspiracy theories from Gateway Pundit, and Infowars has also often taken stories from Zero Hedge to push conspiracy theories. Infowars figures have also taken part in some of the same conspiracy theories as Zero Hedge.}:

Some of the false or dubious claims Zero Hedge has indulged in together with those websites include:

promoting forged documents from 4chantargeting then-French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron;

NOTE STD RUSSIAN DISINFO

pushing conspiracy theories that the white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, VA, consisted of paid actors and that the organizer was actually a liberal spy;

suggesting that the Clintons murdereda former Haitian government official;

claiming formerAttorney General Loretta Lynch was “busted” for secretly using an alias to communicate with DOJ officials, despite her action being both precedented in government and already public knowledge.

saying anti-Trump protesters were bused into cities after the 2016 election.

claiming that the Defense Department was organizing a “national blackout” drill on the day anti-fascist groupantifawas supposedly planning to hold a violent protest (it wasn’t);

pushing a conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama was secretly behind a Hawaii federal judge’s ruling that blocked President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban;

claiming that 4chan had made up what is now known as the “pee tape” portion of the Trump dossier; and

suggesting that a Bernie Sanders activist had been murdered in some kind of coverup.

Additionally, Zero Hedge has pushed multiple false stories from fake news website YourNewsWire and from fake news website True Pundit. It also pushed the conspiracy theory known as Pizzagate, and repeatedly promoted conspiracy theories surrounding slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich.

Despite Zero Hedge’s history of misinformation, between January 22 and January 26, different Facebook Trending topics pages featured it as a news source, including pages about:

Former Attorney General Lynch

Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to Israel

Supposed missing text message exchanges between two FBI employees

The European Union sanctioning technology company Qualcomm

Billionaire George Soroscriticizing the tech giants

On January 24, the Trending topics section on the main news feed featured the blog as its top story about the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD), a think tank that tracks Russian influence online. That Zero Hedge article criticized ASD for noting that Russian-linked accounts were pushing #ReleaseTheMemo, a campaign to get a memo written by House Republicans released that allegedly discredits the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s campaign.

This is not the first time that Facebook has prominently promoted the blog; in October, the social media platform’s crisis response page for the Las Vegas, NV, mass shooting featured a link to an article from a site called antimedia.orgthat was a reprint of a Zero Hedge post.

The risk of sites like Zero Hedge finding a platform in Facebook’s Trending news stories section became clear with Facebook’s announcement that it will rely on users to determine which sites are trustworthy: If users have been seeing a source trending often, they will be more likely to trust it when asked.

Facebook’s misinformation problem will continue to persist if it keeps giving a boost to outlets like Zero Hedge that regularly peddle misinformation. While the platform has made announcements in recent weeks that it claims will lessen the impact of misinformation on the news feed, the continuing problems of the Trending topics section promoting dubious websites as legitimate news sources are just as important. Nearly two years since it fired humans to curate its Trending topics, this section -- and the website as a whole -- continues to fail its users.

THE LATEST

What Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand about “free expression”

10/18/19 3:52 PM EDT

Fox News defends Trump after chief of staff Mick Mulvaney admits quid pro quo with Ukraine

10/18/19 3:06 PM EDT

A seventh GOP-aligned Jeanine Pirro event has been mysteriously canceled

10/18/19 1:41 PM EDT

Media coverage of Trump's attacks on Somali refugees shows that his racist incitement has become normalized

10/18/19 11:10 AM EDT

Fox White House correspondent: Pence and Pompeo “took a diplomatic baseball bat” to Erdogan “and basically bludgeoned him into a cease-fire”

10/18/19 10:36 AM EDT

IN THIS ARTICLE

MAGA Trolls

MAGA-Trolls-MMFA-Tag.png

0 COMMENTS

Related

A new baseless conspiracy theory about Rep. Ilhan Omar can be traced back to far-right message boards

09/09/19 2:26 PM EDT

How bots and far-right figures spread a lie about Beto O'Rourke and the Odessa shooting

09/04/19 1:52 PM EDT

Rudy Giuliani pushed the Seth Rich conspiracy theory. He also keeps amplifying QAnon accounts.

---

lnx

Facebook has repeatedly featured the blog Zero Hedge -- which is known for trafficking in conspiracy theories and misinformation -- on its pages for news Trending topics. And at least once in the past week, the blog was the featured news source for a story on the Trending topics section of the news feed.}:

Facebook has recently claimed it is taking steps to combat the spread of fake news and misinformation on its platform, which proliferated around and after the 2016 election cycle. One of the key moments leading to Facebook’s misinformation problem was its decision in August 2016 to fire its “news curators” and put the Trending topics section under the control of an algorithm. The appearance of Zero Hedge as a news source in that section shows the algorithm is still struggling with curating credible news sources.

Zero Hedge was initially launched as a financial blog in 2009 and has repeatedly trafficked in the same ecosystem as The Gateway Pundit and Infowars. The latter two are conspiracy theory websites that, along with 4chan’s “politically incorrect” message board(commonly referred to as /pol/), are well known for spreading misinformation. Infowars and Gateway Pundit have become so notorious that even some conservatives have spoken out against them. Zero Hedge sometimes pushes conspiracy theories from Gateway Pundit, and Infowars has also often taken stories from Zero Hedge to push conspiracy theories. Infowars figures have also taken part in some of the same conspiracy theories as Zero Hedge.

Some of the false or dubious claims Zero Hedge has indulged in together with those websites include:

• promoting forged documents from 4chan targeting then-French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron;
• pushing conspiracy theories that the white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, VA, consisted of paid actors and that the organizer was actually a liberal spy;
• suggesting that the Clintons murdered a former Haitian government official;
• claiming former Attorney General Loretta Lynch was “busted” for secretly using an alias to communicate with DOJ officials, despite her action being both precedented in government and already public knowledge.

• saying anti-Trump protesters were bused into cities after the 2016 election.
• claiming that the Defense Department was organizing a “national blackout” drill on the day anti-fascist group antifa was supposedly planning to hold a violent protest (it wasn’t);
• pushing a conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama was secretly behind a Hawaii federal judge’s ruling that blocked President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban;
• claiming that 4chan had made up what is now known as the “pee tape” portion of the Trump dossier; and
• suggesting that a Bernie Sanders activist had been murdered in some kind of coverup.

Additionally, Zero Hedge has pushed multiple false stories from fake news website YourNewsWire and from fake news website True Pundit. It also pushed the conspiracy theory known as Pizzagate, and repeatedly promoted conspiracy theories surrounding slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich.

Despite Zero Hedge’s history of misinformation, between January 22 and January 26, different Facebook Trending topics pages featured it as a news source, including pages about:

---

DUCK 3 26

Zero Hedge is a financial blog and news aggregator known for its bearish market sentiment and libertarian views. It often covers economic issues, geopolitics, and trading, but has also been criticized for promoting conspiracy theories and fringe rhetoric.

Wikipedia[ oilprice.com](https://oilprice.com/contributors/ZeroHedge-/)

Overview of Zero Hedge

Zero Hedge is a financial blog and news aggregator that was launched on January 9, 2009. It is known for its far-right libertarian stance and often adopts a bearish outlook on financial markets. The site is owned by ABC Media Limited, a Bulgarian company, and its content is primarily authored by Daniel Ivandjiiski, who writes under the pen name "Tyler Durden."

Content and Themes

Financial Focus

• Zero Hedge is recognized for its critical analysis of financial markets, often highlighting issues like high-frequency trading and market manipulation.

• The site has been labeled a "permabear," meaning it consistently predicts negative market trends, which some critics argue has led to missed opportunities during market recoveries.

Political Commentary

• Over time, Zero Hedge expanded its content to include political commentary, often featuring conspiracy theories and fringe rhetoric.

• The site has been associated with pro-Russia positions and has faced bans from social media platforms for spreading misinformation.

Controversies

• Zero Hedge has faced legal issues, including a $140,000 settlement for copyright infringement involving articles from The Wall Street Journal.

• The site has been banned from various platforms, including Twitter and Google Ads, due to violations of content policies, although some bans were later lifted.

Audience and Influence

• Despite controversies, Zero Hedge has a significant readership, particularly among financial professionals and traders.

• It is often cited for its unique perspectives on economic issues, although its reliability is debated among critics and supporters alike.

Wikipedia The New Republic

---

NO TALK Zero Hedge - Wikipedia

Zero Hedge (or ZeroHedge)^[a] is a far-right^[13] libertarian^{[14][15][16][17}] financial blog and news aggregator.^[14][15][18] Zero Hedge has a bearish market sentiment in its investment outlook and analysis, often deriving from a strict adherence to the Austrian School of economics and credit cycles.^[19] It has been described as a financial "permabear".^[20][21]

Over time, Zero Hedge expanded into non-financial political content,^[b] including conspiracy theories and fringe rhetoric,^[3][23] and has advanced radical right,^[15][24] alt-right,^[25][26][27] and pro-Russia positions.^{[1][28][29][30}] Zero Hedge's non-financial commentary has led to multiple site bans by global social media platforms, although a 2019 Facebook ban^[31][32] and a 2020 Twitter ban were later reversed.^[15][33]

Zero Hedge's in-house content is authored by its owner Daniel Ivandjiiski under the pen name "Tyler Durden".^[22] The motto of the site is posted in the masthead of every page: "On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero". The quote is from the book and film Fight Club,^[34] which is in turn a paraphrase the quote "In the long run we are all dead" by John Maynard Keynes.

History and authorship

See also: Daniel Ivandjiiski

Zero Hedge's first post appeared on 9 January 2009 at 4pm,^[35][2] and the domain was registered on 11 January 2009 under the name Krassimir Ivandjiiski of ABC Media Ltd, the father of Daniel Ivandjiiski, who founded Zero Hedge.^[36] According to American City Business Journals in 2012, the website "publishes financial news and opinion, aggregated and original" from several writers "who purportedly hail from within the financial industry."^[37]

In September 2009, news reports identified Daniel Ivandjiiski, a Bulgarian-born, U.S.-educated,^[c] former hedge-fund trader, who was barred from the securities industry in September 2008 for earning US$780 from an insider trade by FINRA,^[38] as the founder of the site, and reported that "Tyler Durden" was simply a pen name for Ivandjiiski.^[2][39] FINRA rulings show Ivandjiiski worked for 3 years at New York investment bank, Jefferies & Co.,^[40] as well several hedge funds, the last of which was Wexford Capital LLC, a fund led by former Goldman Sachs traders.^[41] One site contributor, who spoke to New York magazine in an interview arranged by Ivandjiiski, said "up to 40" people could post under the "Tyler Durden" pseudonym.^[2] The same New York magazine article, published on 27 September 2009, stated that Ivandjiiski's father was Krassimir Ivandjiiski,^[2] a Bulgarian publisher and editor of the pro-Russia right-wing conspiracy theory website Strogo Sekretno ("Top Secret"),^[1] and monthly publication Bulgarian Confidential, since 1994.^[d][1]

The domain zerohedge.com is registered in Bulgaria to a company called ABC Media Ltd, managed by Krassimir Ivandjiiski.^[1] In a 29 April 2016 Bloomberg article "Unmasking Zero Hedge",^[22] the authors writing as "Tyler Durden" were revealed as Ivandjiiski, then age 37, Tim Backshall, age 45 (a credit derivatives strategist),^[43] and Colin Lokey, age 32 (a Seeking Alpha staff writer).^[44] Lokey, the newest member, who joined in 2015, publicly revealed himself and the other two, when he left the site in April 2016.^[45] Ivandjiiski confirmed the three men "had been the only Tyler Durdens on the payroll" since Lokey joined in 2015.^[22] Lokey said he was paid $6,000 per month, and received a bonus of $50,000, earning over $100,000 in 2015.^[22] According to Ivandjiiski, the blog generates revenue from online advertising (as there is no subscription service).^[22]

In March 2020, Bulgarian litigation between Krassimir Ivandjiiski and U.S. journalist Seth Hettena revealed further details about the Ivandjiiski family and the site's ownership.^[1]

In August 2020, Zero Hedge paid $140,000 to Dow Jones & Company to settle copyright-infringement allegations after Zero Hedge allegedly posted 37 editorials and articles from The Wall Street Journal without permission.^[46]

Access to White House press corps

In April 2025, during the 2025 stock market crash, Zero Hedge was admitted to the White House press corps.^[47]

In May 2025, a reporter from Zero hedge was given the opportunity to ask the first question at a press briefing, in which he asked a question regarding the Clinton body count conspiracy theory.^[48][49][50]

According to an article:

The White House has officially opened its doors to a website accused of spreading Russian propaganda. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt welcomed Zero Hedge's Liam Cosgrove to the new media seat Monday—who predictably proceeded to relay conspiracy theories when given an opportunity to ask the first question at the morning press briefing... Cosgrove asked two questions... The second was about an old conspiracy theory resurfaced by the president himself. 'So, over the weekend, President Trump posted [on] Truth Social, a video highlighting what most people call the 'Clinton body count,' Cosgrove said. 'Which is the strange number of suicides that seem to happen in Clinton circles—'^[51]

Site bans

On 12 March 2019, Bloomberg reported that Facebook had banned users from sharing Zero Hedge posts three days earlier.^[31] MarketWatch, noting that Zero Hedge is a "frequent critic of Facebook", reported that the ban was lifted later that day with Facebook saying that the ban was a "mistake with our automation to detect spam".^[32] Business Insider, describing Zero Hedge as "a favorite of City and Wall Street traders, known for its anti-establishment and bearish slant on financial topics", noted that Donald Trump Jr. and Nigel Farage raised objections to Facebook's censure of Zero Hedge.^[52]

Australian telecom company Telstra temporarily denied access to Zero Hedge and other websites on 20 March 2019 as a result of the Christchurch mosque shootings.^[53][54][55]

On 20 January 2020, Zero Hedge's Twitter account, which then had 670,000 followers, was "permanently suspended" from Twitter for violating its platform manipulation policy.^[14][56][57] Bloomberg News reported that Zero Hedge had been informed by Twitter that the suspension was as a result of an article titled: "Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?", in which they doxed a Chinese virologist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.^[24][15] On 12 June 2020, Twitter reinstated the account after an appeal from Zero Hedge and stated that the suspension was an error.^[33]

On 17 June 2020, Zero Hedge was banned from the Google Ads platform after Google claimed that Zero Hedge violated its content policy that "explicitly prohibit[s] derogatory content that promotes hatred, intolerance, violence or discrimination based on race from monetizing" on stories related to George Floyd protests.^[58][59][60] Google lifted the ban in July 2020, after the management of Zero Hedge began moderating comments.^[61][62]

Zero Hedge revealed on 17 June 2020 that PayPal had, like Google, deplatformed the site,^[63] and they would only be able to accept cryptocurrency payments in the future.^[64]

Manifesto and views

At its creation in January 2009, Zero Hedge published a manifesto on the objectives of the site.^[65]

Financial views

[FLAG]

Zero Hedge promotes the Austrian School, the belief that economic cycles are really credit cycles, and that the quantitative easing ("QE") by global central banks is a temporary and artificial asset-price support scheme which makes the credit cycle even more extreme.^[19] As a result of this view, Zero Hedge supports assets that are outside of the central banking system, including precious metals,^[66][67] and cryptocurrency. The site is strongly against Keynesian economics.^[68][non-primary ^source ^needed]

Critics of Zero Hedge label the site a "permabear", whose views missed the global recovery since 2013.^[21] Zero Hedge maintains financial views/theories which are considered conspiratorial, and/or hard-to-prove or unprovable.^[69][20] Notable views include:^[e]

1. Price manipulation by high-frequency trading ("HFT"). The belief that investment banks/funds use HFT/"dark pools" to manipulate prices;^[f]
2. Precious metals manipulation. The belief that investment banks manipulate precious metals prices to suit their derivative books;^[g]
3. Plunge-protection-team ("PPT"). The belief that central banks intervene in markets on a frequent, almost daily basis, to support prices;^[h]
4. U.S banks front running the U.S. FED. The belief that U.S. investment banks, most profitable of all global investment banks, have knowledge of PPT trades;^[i]
5. Market illiquidity. The belief that market liquidity, when HFT and PPT flows are taken out, is low, implying prices are artificial;^[j]
6. Chinese fraud. The belief that Chinese economic data is made-up, and that many Chinese companies are fraudulent (called "fraudcaps" by the site);^[k]
7. Manipulation of house prices. The belief that central bankers, Mark Carney as most typical,^[l] use houses as stimulus, by loosening mortgage terms.^[m]

Zero Hedge has published detailed research from Wall Street investment banks and institutions, on securities, which has been picked up by the financial media.^[70][71][72] Sometimes, the research is about other investment banks.^[73] It has also been a source of breaking news in the general capital markets industry.^{[74][66][75][76}] In Zero Hedge's early years, it was associated with exposing the unknown world of High-frequency trading ("HFT"), and the HFT techniques that Zero Hedge claimed amounted to market manipulation.^[66][77]

Political views

The 29 April 2016 "Unmasking Zero Hedge" article by Bloomberg quoted former website staffer Colin Lokey as saying: "I can't be a 24-hour cheerleader for Hezbollah, Moscow, Tehran, Beijing, and Trump anymore. It's wrong. Period. I know it gets you views now, but it will kill your brand over the long run. This isn't a revolution. It's a joke." Lokey told Bloomberg that he was pressured to frame issues in a way he felt was "disingenuous", summarizing its political stances as "Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladimir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft."^[22] Lokey provided chat transcripts in which Ivandjiiski refers to America's "silent majority" as "beastly", while Backshall acknowledges life in the U.S. is bad "outside of my bubble".^[22] Wallace-Wells observed that the site demonstrated a pro-Russia bias, stating the site had a "pointed" Russophilia.^[28]

In a series of articles in June–July 2017, the Financial Times, covering an event organized by one of the site's bloggers,^[n] said that, "It probably didn't help that Zero Hedge was also used as a lead-in for a 2016 New Yorker piece about the alt-right, despite its financial focus and a political bent that is more Drudge than Richard Spencer."^[29] In January 2020, when the site was removed from Twitter, BuzzFeed News described Zero Hedge as "pro-Trump" and "far-right",^[24] while reporting on the removal, The Washington Post said of Zero Hedge: "In recent years, the blog has amplified right-wing conspiracy theories on a range of topics".^[15]

Alleged Russian influence

In March 2020, American journalist Seth Hettena wrote an opinion-piece in The New Republic titled "Is Zero Hedge a Russian Trojan Horse?", and provided details on the links between Krassimir Ivandjiiski (the site publisher's Bulgarian father), and Soviet-era activities in propaganda, revealed during litigation initiated by the father against Hettena in the Bulgarian courts.^[1] Hettena commented that Zero Hedge has become "a forum for the hateful, conspiracy-driven voices of the angry white men of the alt-right. Racists, anti-Semites, extreme right-wingers, and conspiracy nuts were an underserved audience, and, as it turns out, a profitable one."^[1]

In February 2022, intelligence officials from the United States claimed that Zero Hedge has amplified Russian propaganda by publishing articles written by Russian state-run media.^{[78][79][80][81][82}]

Reception

Launch to 2014

In August 2009, under the pseudonym Tyler Durden, Ivandjiiski was interviewed on Bloomberg Radio on HFT.^[41] Following a series of pieces accusing Goldman Sachs of using high-frequency trading to profit via the New York Stock Exchange, Zero Hedge's readership grew rapidly.^[83][84][39] In September 2009, journalist Joe Hagan wrote that Zero Hedge's founder was "a zealous believer in a sweeping conspiracy that casts the alumni of Goldman Sachs as a powerful cabal at the helm of U.S. policy."^[2] In October 2009, the site was characterized as conspiratorial by financial journalists Justin Fox and Felix Salmon.^[39] However, Justin Fox, also described Ivandjiiski as "a wonderfully persistent investigative reporter" and credited him for successfully turning high-frequency trading "into a big political issue," but also termed most of the writing on the website as "half-baked hooey," albeit with some "truth to be gleaned from it."^[39]

In his book, Griftopia (2010), Matt Taibbi cited Zero Hedge as having accurately assessed the level of corruption in the banking industry.^[85] In January 2011, Zero Hedge was quoted in the Columbia Journalism Review regarding a JPMorgan-Ambac lawsuit: "JPM committed fraud through misrepresentation, then wilfully and maliciously traded against the entities it had sold misrepresented securities to."^[86]

In March 2011, Time magazine ranked Zero Hedge as 9th, in its 25 Best Financial Blogs,^[69] with nominator, Paul Kedrosky of Bloomberg News stating that "So while I don't read Zero Hedge regularly—it's too bearish, too conspiratorial and too much of an intellectual monoculture—I like knowing that it exists. Any time I'm feeling like things might just turn out O.K. on planet Economic Earth, I know where to turn to be disabused of that stupid idea." Susanne Craig of The New York Times described Zero Hedge in October 2011 as "a well-read and controversial financial blog."^[87]

In December 2012, Bank of America, which had been criticized by the site in the past, blocked its employees' access to Zero Hedge from BOA servers.^[37]

2014 to 2018

In September 2014, the site was described by CNN as offering a "deeply conspiratorial, anti-establishment and pessimistic view of the world".^[20] In November 2014, Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance at the University of Houston, stated: "I have frequently written that Zero Hedge has the MO of a Soviet agitprop operation, that it reliably peddles Russian propaganda: my first post on this, almost exactly three years ago, noted the parallels between Zero Hedge and Russia Today."^[88][89] In September 2015, economist Paul Krugman described Zero Hedge as a scaremongering outlet that promotes fears of hyperinflation and an "obviously ridiculous" form of "monetary permahawkery."^[90] In November 2012, Krugman had noted that Bill McBride of Calculated Risk, an economics blog, has treated Zero Hedge with "appropriate contempt".^[91] Krugman has been the subject of hundreds of articles on the website (almost all negative).^[92]

In April 2016, as part of its expose from the Colin Lokey interview, "Unmasking the Men Behind Zero Hedge, Wall Street's Renegade Blog", Bloomberg Markets stated that since its founding in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis, "Zero Hedge has grown from a blog to an Internet powerhouse. Often distrustful of the 'establishment' and almost always bearish, it's known for a pessimistic worldview. Posts entitled 'Stocks Are in a Far More Precarious State Than Was Ever Truly Believed Possible' and 'America's Entitled (And Doomed) Upper Middle Class' are not uncommon."^[22] In a May 2016 follow-up opinion piece, Noah Smith of Bloomberg News wrote: "Zero Hedge has become known as a source of cutting-edge news, rumors and gossip about the financial industry, as well as a haven for gold bugs, foes of the Federal Reserve and critics of high-frequency trading"; and also that: "But I've realized that the website is also something else—a kind of support group for financial industry workers who are worried about their own economic future in the face of sweeping changes in technology, regulation and demand".^[66]

Post–2018

On 20 November 2019, NBC News reported Zero Hedge as the initial source of a "misleading claim about the head of the Ukrainian energy company at the heart of the House impeachment inquiry", which went viral during the impeachment hearings. NBC said that "ZeroHedge apparently misconstrued the original Russian article from the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency, which did not mention an indictment. The Interfax-Ukraine News Agency operates as part of Interfax, a Russian news outlet".^[30]

In January 2020, after Zero Hedge had been removed from Twitter, The Washington Post said that, "Zero Hedge launched in 2009, mostly featuring news and commentary about financial markets from a libertarian perspective. In recent years, the blog has amplified right-wing conspiracy theories on a range of topics."^[15]

Litigation

GEROVA Financial

On 27 March 2012, Daniel Ivandjiiski was named as a co-conspirator in a civil complaint regarding a "complaint for damages and equitable relief".^[93] The complainant, Noble Investments, a seed money investor in GEROVA Financial Group, alleged that Dalrymple Finance had, with Zero Hedge and others,^[o] engaged in a short and distort stock manipulation scheme, by publishing negative reports on GEROVA in January 2011.^[94][95][96] The complaint stated that, amongst other charges, the defendants made damaging accusations that major shareholders, the Galanis family, and GEROVA senior executives, were involved in a "pump and dump" scheme; it also made ad hominem attacks on both Daniel Ivandjiiski, and his then alleged father, Krassimir Ivandjiiski.^[p]

Dalrymple replied: "Writing research on quoted companies and distributing that research to financial media outlets, is neither illegal and is a daily legitimate activity on Wall Street". The complaint did not progress and there was no SEC investigation. GEROVA Financial's share collapsed in 2011, and never recovered.[citation ^needed] On 24 September 2015, the SEC charged several senior GEROVA executives and a few major investors in GEROVA with a "stock fraud scheme",^[97][98] for which several, including the former company chairman and president, Gary Hirst, received jail sentences in 2017.^[99][100]

See also

• Krassimir Ivandjiiski
• Daniel Ivandjiiski
• Marc Faber
• John Hussman

Notes

---

MEDIUM

A pseudonym, a persona, and a pitch-black market mood

Zero Hedge launched in 2009 and quickly stood out for its end-times tone on markets and its fixation on credit cycles, bailouts, and central banks. The site’s posts appeared under the name “Tyler Durden,” borrowed from Fight Club, which added mystique — and plausible deniability. Early reporting traced the site’s origins to Daniel Ivandjiiski, a Bulgarian-born former Wall Street analyst who had embraced anonymity and a taste for confrontation online. [1] In 2008, before Zero Hedge appeared, U.S. regulator FINRA barred Ivandjiiski from the securities industry over a $780 insider-trading profit — an obscure case that later colored public perception of the blog’s anti-establishment voice. [2]

Unmasking “Tyler”

For years, readers wondered whether “Tyler” was one person or a writers’ room. In April 2016, a splashy Bloomberg investigation answered that question: three men were on the payroll — Ivandjiiski (publisher/founder), Tim Backshall (a credit-derivatives strategist), and Colin Lokey (a U.S.-based writer who’d recently joined). The piece described how the trio collaborated behind the single Durden byline. [3] Backshall himself had built a reputation in credit long before Zero Hedge; an interview a decade earlier noted he “hails from the south of London,” placing his roots in the United Kingdom even as he worked in U.S. markets. [4] Lokey later alleged editorial pressure toward a populist, often geopolitical slant; the site disputed those claims, but the episode shed light on internal dynamics and cemented the idea of Zero Hedge as both brand and persona. [5]

Influence and audience

By the mid-2010s, Zero Hedge had become must-read contrarian fare for traders and skeptics. The site mixed original analysis with aggregation, and its headlines traveled fast — through financial Twitter, trading chat rooms, and cable business TV. That reach made its framing powerful: when Zero Hedge pounded away at themes like quantitative easing, debt doom loops, or political intrigue, those narratives tended to ripple.

Flashpoints and scandals

The site’s mix of finance and politics produced frequent controversy. On January 31, 2020, Twitter suspended the @zerohedge account after the site published an article naming a Chinese scientist and suggesting a lab origin for COVID-19; the platform cited its rules against “platform manipulation” and noted doxxing concerns. [6] In June 2020, after an appeal, Twitter reinstated the account and said the earlier suspension was “an error.” [7] Two years later, on February 15, 2022, The Associated Press reported that U.S. intelligence officials accused Zero Hedge of amplifying content from Kremlin-linked outlets during the run-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; officials did not allege the site knowingly collaborated with Russian intelligence, and Zero Hedge denied the claims. [8]

Country of origin — and the people behind the mask

The individuals most closely tied to Zero Hedge come from different places but converged around markets. Ivandjiiski is Bulgarian-born and U.S.-educated; he became the site’s driving force and public defender after being named in press reports. [1][2] Backshall, who had a long résumé in credit analytics, is originally from the United Kingdom (south London) and later worked in California — an analyst’s background that helped the site’s fixed-income credibility. [4] Lokey, based in the United States and formerly at Seeking Alpha, wrote a significant share of political content during his tenure and ultimately revealed the team’s identities to Bloomberg. [3][5] Their relationship was essentially a small, tight editorial shop publishing under one mask — a convenience for speed and a deliberate aesthetic choice that made Zero Hedge read like a single, unfiltered voice.

Legacy

As a piece of internet finance history, Zero Hedge illustrates how a strong editorial persona, relentless posting cadence, and a clear worldview can punch far above a site’s headcount. It also shows the risks: anonymity invites both candid market talk and controversy, and the line between sharp skepticism and incendiary rhetoric is thin. Whether loved for its market calls or loathed for its provocations, Zero Hedge helped define the post-crisis era’s combative financial discourse — one Tyler Durden post at a time. [1][3][5]

References

[1] Joe Hagan, “The Dow Zero Insurgency,” New York Magazine, September 25, 2009. https://nymag.com/guides/money/2009/59457/

[2] FINRA, “Disciplinary and Other FINRA Actions — October 2008” (bar of Daniel K. Ivandjiiski), October 2008. https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/DisciplinaryAction/p117220.pdf

[3] Tracy Alloway and Luke Kawa, “Unmasking the Men Behind Zero Hedge, Wall Street’s Renegade Blog,” Bloomberg, April 29, 2016. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-29/unmasking-the-men-behind-zero-hedge-wall-street-s-renegade-blog

[4] Jonathan Shazar, “Tim Backshall’s Trading Ideas,” Institutional Investor, February 28, 2006. https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2btfr1n9mtbl3rtt8yvi8/innovation/tim-backshalls-trading-ideas

[5] Ellen Cranley, “Finance blog Zero Hedge was banned from Twitter for Wuhan coronavirus misinformation. It’s not the first time the publication has raised eyebrows,” Business Insider, February 1, 2020. https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-zero-hedge-finance-blog-that-spread-coronavirus-misinformation-2020-2

[6] Jay Peters, “Markets blogger Zero Hedge suspended from Twitter after doxxing a Chinese scientist,” The Verge, January 31, 2020. https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21117663/twitter-zero-hedge-suspended-platform-manipulation-policy-doxxing-coronavirus

[7] Kim Lyons, “Twitter reinstates Zero Hedge account saying its earlier suspension was ‘an error’,” The Verge, June 13, 2020. https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/13/21290118/twitter-reinstates-zerohedge-coronavirus

[8] Nomaan Merchant, “US accuses financial website of spreading Russian propaganda,” Associated Press, February 15, 2022. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-coronavirus-pandemic-health-moscow-media-ff4a56b7b08bcdc6adaf02313a85edd9

---

DUCK 3 26

Zerohedge

https://www.zerohedge.com

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

• ### Contributors Markets are grinding lower, not crashing, as hedge unwinds and flow-driven buying keep cushioning the downside despite heavy selling. Until a true macro shock hits, expect a slow bleed with tightening conditions and rising geopolitical risks building beneath the surface.
  • ### Donate Donate - ZeroHedge
  • ### Join Premium ONLY $30/MONTH Premium Articles: Dive into subscriber-only content, market analysis, and insights that keep you ahead of the game. Access to our Private X Account, The Market Ear analysis, and Newsquawk Ad-Free Experience: Enjoy an uninterrupted browsing experience.
  • ### The Market Ear ONLY $30/MONTH Premium Articles: Dive into subscriber-only content, market analysis, and insights that keep you ahead of the game. Access to our Private X Account, The Market Ear analysis, and Newsquawk Ad-Free Experience: Enjoy an uninterrupted browsing experience.
  • ### SpotGamma SpotGamma - ZeroHedge
  • ### Manifesto About the zero hedge manifesto our mission: to widen the scope of financial, economic and political information available to the professional investing public. to skeptically examine and, where necessary, attack the flaccid institution that financial journalism has become. to liberate oppressed knowledge.

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Zero_Hedge

Zero Hedge - Wikipedia

Zero Hedge (or ZeroHedge) [a] is a far-right [13] libertarian [14][15][16][17] financial blog and news aggregator. [14][15][18] Zero Hedge has a bearish market sentiment in its investment outlook and analysis, often deriving from a strict adherence to the Austrian School of economics and credit cycles. [19]

Medium

https://medium.com › @DailyCryptoHistory › the-zerohedge-origin-story-b862ea526749

The Zero Hedge Origin Story - Medium

Sep 3, 2025The Zero Hedge Origin Story A pseudonym, a persona, and a pitch-black market mood Zero Hedge launched in 2009 and quickly stood out for its end-times tone on markets and its fixation on credit …

MSN

https://www.msn.com › en-us › politics › government › white-house-welcomes-controversial-blog-zero-hedge-to-press-pool › ar-AA1CHciP

White House Welcomes Controversial Blog Zero Hedge to Press Pool - MSN

The controversial financial news website Zero Hedge, which was accused of spreading Russian propaganda by US intelligence officials in 2022, was admitted to the White House press pool Thursday ...

Media Bias/Fact Check

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com › zero-hedge

ZeroHedge - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check

4 days agoZeroHedge's content has been classified as "alt-right" and has been criticized for presenting conspiracy theories. In review, ZeroHedge publishes pro-right wing/Trump articles such as Pat Buchanan: "Trump Calls Off Cold War II." As well as fake news stories regarding liberals: Anti-Trump Protesters Bused Into Austin, Chicago.

Wikiwand

https://www.wikiwand.com › en › Zero_Hedge

Zero Hedge - Wikiwand

Zero Hedge is a far-right libertarian financial blog and news aggregator. Zero Hedge has a bearish market sentiment in its investment outlook and analysis, often deriving from a strict adherence to the Austrian School of economics and credit cycles. It has been described as a financial "permabear".

indicators4traders.com

https://indicators4traders.com › glossary › what-is-zero-hedge

What is: Zero Hedge - Indicators 4 Traders

Zero Hedge is a popular and controversial blog that covers economics, finance, and investing. It is known for its provocative headlines, in-depth research, and alternative perspectives on the markets.

Zerohedge

https://www.zerohedge.com › about

About | Zero Hedge

Zero Hedge is a financial, economic and political news site that uses pseudonymous speech to challenge the mainstream media. Learn about our manifesto, our history, our legal rights and our privacy policy.

Forbes

https://www.forbes.com › sites › joewalsh › 2022 › 02 › 15 › us-reportedly-accuses-financial-blog-zero-hedge-of-publishing-russian-propaganda

U.S. Reportedly Accuses Financial Blog Zero Hedge Of ... - Forbes

Feb 15, 2022Controversial financial website Zero Hedge denied allegations from U.S. intelligence officials Tuesday that it has spread Russian propaganda.

USA Today

https://www.usatoday.com › story › money › business › 2022 › 03 › 01 › us-links-zero-hedge-russia-propaganda › 6926397001

US linking Zero Hedge to Russia propaganda another phase in war

Mar 1, 2022US intelligence officials accusing Zero Hedge for amplifying Russian propaganda signals news tactics to fight against Russia in the information wa

---

Zero Hedge | Media Matters for America

https://www.mediamatters.org › zero-hedge

1.

Zero Hedge began in 2009 as a financial blog focused on market analysis, but has since pushed many right-wing conspiracy theories.

Zero Hedge - Search | Media Matters for America

https://www.mediamatters.org › shows-and-publications › zero-hedge

1.

Here are the conservative media outlets and figures pushing the outlandish theory that Christine Blasey Ford misidentified her attacker. 09/21/18 2:20 PM EDT.

Zero Hedge - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Zero_Hedge

2.

Zero Hedge or ZeroHedge is described as a "markets-focused" blog, that presents both .... Lokey told Bloomberg that he was pressured to frame issues in a way he felt was "disingenuous," .... Dalrymple replied: "Writing research on quoted companies and distributing that research to financial media outlets, is neither illegal ...

History and authorship · ‎Manifesto and views · ‎Traffic statistics · ‎Critical reception

Zero Hedge - Media Bias/Fact Check

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com › zero-hedge

2.

Sources in the Conspiracy-Pseudoscience category may publish unverifiable information that is not always supported by evidence. These sources may be ...

NYU Cancels Course On 'Far-Right' Taught By ... - Zero Hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com › news › nyu-cancels-course-far-right-taught-...

1.

May 30, 2019 - New York University has dumped a journalism class taught by a former 'fact checker' for Media Matters and the New Yorker, after just two ...

Are Media Matters And George Soros Behind ... - Zero Hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com › news › are-media-matters-and-george-soros-...

1.

Sep 19, 2018 - A nearly two-year-old document reportedly issued by 'Media Matters for America' lays out a plan for “defeating Trump” and Republicans over ...

Why 9/11 Matters In 2019 | Zero Hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com › political › why-911-matters-2019

1.

Sep 11, 2019 - A narrative as crucial as that needs to be closely examined, but the mainstream media has not only failed to perform this function, it has ...

No Matter Who Wins In 2020, There Will Be Blood | Zero Hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com › political › no-matter-who-wins-2020-there-...

1.

Sep 19, 2019 - The machinations of an illiberal left, on display in its ever-increasing violence accompanied by the ululations of a propagandist media in ...

Media Breakdown: Years Of Leftist Proselytizing ... - Zero Hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com › news › media-breakdown-years-leftist-prosel...

1.

Apr 4, 2019 - The media's leftist bias has been around for decades – but there's no hiding it now...

Spooks Turned Spox: US Media Now Filled With ... - Zero Hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com › political › spooks-turned-spox-us-media-fill...

1.

Oct 5, 2019 - ... turned mainstream media pundits and analysts, to say nothing of the ... former deputy national security advisor, and now CNN global affairs ...

===