Craig Timberg
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Craig Timberg is a journalist for The Washington Post. As of December 2016, he was cited over 80 times by the English Wikipedia, but did not have his own page.[1] Many of these were about technology, including an article he co-wrote in December 2013 headlined "By cracking cellphone code, NSA has ability to decode private conversations".[2]
"Fake news"
On 24 November, 2016 an article with Timberg's name appeared in the Washington Post, entitled "Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say". The story was widely criticised, not least by the sites he alleged were outlets for Russian propaganda. For CounterPunch, Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn commented "concocted his story based on allegations from a vaporous group called ProporNot, run by nameless individuals of unknown origin, whom Timberg (cribbing from the Bob Woodward stylesheet) agreed to quote as anonymous sources."[3]
Propornot
Timberg cites Propornot, describing the site as "a nonpartisan collection of researchers with foreign policy, military and technology backgrounds".
Criticism
Within 10 days of publication, the story had attracted 14,800 comments. Timberg declined to comment further on the article, remarking that "questions about decisions about what the Post publishes and why are properly directed to Marty Baron."[4]
References
- ↑ https://archive.is/67bgW
- ↑ https://archive.is/G4Wc7
- ↑ www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/30/the-cia-and-the-press-when-the-washiangton-post-ran-the-cias-propaganda-network/
- ↑ http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/washington_post_reporter_craig_timberg_wont_discuss_his_20161130
