Your National Press, Even Harder at Work

I’m not lying: here is the fourth paragraph of a “Yahoo News” article by their National Security Correspondent, Sean D. Naylor, apparently in the belief that Yahoo readers require this background:

Biden is Trump’s Democratic opponent in the upcoming election.

Now mail in your votes, well-informed citizen!

Full context:

Russia working to help reelect President Trump, FBI chief says
Yahoo News | September 17th, 2020 | Sean D. Naylor National Security Correspondent

WASHINGTON — Russia is mounting “very active efforts” to interfere with the U.S. election to benefit President Trump, FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress on Thursday.

Unlike their activities during the 2016 presidential election, the Russians do not seem to be using their cyber capabilities to target the U.S. election infrastructure, according to Wray. Instead, the Kremlin’s approach is one of “malign foreign influence,” with Russia utilizing “social media, use of proxies, state media, online journals, etc.,” he told a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee.

Without mentioning Trump by name, the FBI director said Russia’s actions represent “an effort to both sow divisiveness and discord and … to denigrate Vice President [Joe] Biden and what the Russians see as kind of an anti-Russian establishment.”

Biden is Trump’s Democratic opponent in the upcoming election.

I wonder if Wray’s mention of “state media” meant Russia’s — in which case, who cares, and why is that the FBI’s business? — or America’s — in which case, WTF?

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