(Kayleigh McEnany type), same as how Putin exploits women
on RT/Sputnik/etc, as sales technique- like a beer commercial
NYT:
The conservative cable network One America News (OANN) has a minuscule audience, attracts few readers on the web and has struggled to break into the television mainstream.
But thanks to one powerful viewer in the White House, the network’s influence — and its conspiracy theories — are echoing in the highest reaches of American politics.
President Trump, responding to a One America News segment, floated a baseless theory on Tuesday that a 75-year-old man in Buffalo who was knocked to the ground by the police — and hospitalized after bleeding from his head — was “an ANTIFA provocateur” who had tried to interfere with
law enforcement.
“@OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed,” the president wrote on Twitter. “Could be a setup?”
There is no evidence to support the claims about the man, Martin Gugino, a longtime peace activist who has been affiliated with human-rights groups and the Catholic Worker movement.
But One America News aired a segment that presented the false theory as reported news, as opposed to a baseless conspiracy. The segment would probably have faded into obscurity had Mr. Trump not chosen to amplify it to his nearly 82 million Twitter followers.
The One America News correspondent who narrated the segment, Kristian Rouz, is a Russian native who has also worked for Sputnik, a Kremlin-controlled news outlet, which was first reported by The Daily Beast.
Sputnik has been accused by intelligence services of contributing to
Russia’s efforts to interfere in American elections...
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