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© Jeff Darcy, Cleveland.com
Et omfattende review af nyhedskilder finder et ubestrideligt mønster i de internationale "russisk hacking" påstande:
  • Mange, hvis ikke alle sådanne påstande, er baseret på 'siger sådan' fra anonyme "embedsmænd" eller selvpromoverende "eksperter".
  • Mange, hvis ikke alle sådanne påstande, er tilbagevist indenfor få dage eller uger.
  • Nyheder om enhver ny påstået "Russisk hacking" er vidtspredt og let at finde.
  • Nyheder om tilbagevisningen af sådanne påstande er kun sparsomt rapporteret (hvis overhovedet) og er sværere at finde.
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Kommentar: Denne artikel er delvis oversat til dansk af Sott.net fra: Undeniable: The Russian hacking pattern
Herunder følger en række påstande om russisk hacking, der senere er blevet gendrevet:


Ukraine United States Germany Germany France Qatar United Kingdom The undeniable patter of "Russian hacking" is that any claim thereof is likely not true and will be debunked in due time.

These remarks on the "Russian hacking" allegation in relation to the U.S. election are therefore quite appropriate:
President Trump again cast a skeptical eye on intelligence community assessments that Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election, saying Thursday while on a visit to Poland that "nobody really knows for sure" what happened.
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Trump also compared the intelligence about Russian interference with the faulty assessment that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in 2002, which provided President Bush with a justification to go to war.

"Guess what, they were wrong, and that led to one big mess," he said.