![]() You can see our story on this development here. Update, October 18: The subject of this story, Robert Willis, corroborated our reporting and revealed that he worked for Natural News in a blog post this morning. Previously dubbed "Hacker X," he's now ready to reveal who he is-and how he did it. "This was normal for politicians, though… if you say a lie enough times, everyone will believe it." "Russia played such a minor role that they weren't even a blip on the radar," the hacker told me recently. Pundits and governments just might have given Russia too much credit, he says, when a whole system of manipulating people's perception and psychology was engineered and operated from within the US. And he fooled unwary American citizens, including the hacker's own father, into regarding fake news sources more highly than the mainstream media. He devised a strategy that got prominent personalities-including Trump-to retweet misleading claims to their followers. ![]() Through extensive efforts, he built a secret network of self-reinforcing sites from the ground up. Under him was a dedicated team of writers and editors paid to produce deceptive content-from outright hoaxes to political propaganda-with the supreme goal of tipping the 2016 election to Donald Trump. This is the story of the mastermind behind one of the largest "fake news" operations in the US.įor two years, he ran websites and Facebook groups that spread bogus stories, conspiracy theories, and propaganda. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 2374 with
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