How’s this even remotely related to hoopties ?

Yep. And they spring up almost right on cue.

There is. However, media companies are rarely independent, and the corporation that owns it may use the media arm of it’s businesses to ratchet up the profits in other sectors.

They are in these comments even.....

Russia didn’t “invade” Crimea as the American media, and government, likes to say.

Anyone who has commented on articles discussing Russia over the past few years has likely encountered paid Russia-sponsored commenters like the ones discussed in the linked article.

Dos Vedanya Comrad!

I think weaponize is appropriate. Information wins wars.

More articles like this, please.

Christ, do we need this comment on every FA article now? If there is no way to stop it, I wonder if it’s time to consider moving FA to one of the other blogs (maybe Gizmodo) or giving it its own space. At least the others are likely to have a smaller meathead population than Jalopnik does.

Why is there always at least one of you twits asking this question in every FTA post? Can you not read a goddamn URL?

Propaganda can be sometimes hard to handle, therefore you should only visit legitimate and unbiased sources of information.

And of course, as expected, the Putinbots are out in force.

lol. You’re a dipshit.

Good idea. Im sure thats a new idea they’ve not thought of previously.

I’ll let it slide.

Why would they need Trump for that? California is probably already on the target list.

Can you cyber attack something that doesn’t have internet access?

Good luck Yankees. We have the ultimate hack-proof, EMP-proof mainframes in our nuclear research facilities.