Social Media: Is the Trump of Industries Don’t like Twitter, Google and Facebook? Tar them with the Russia brush.

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., Wall Street Journal

Don’t like Twitter, Google and Facebook? Tar them with the Russia brush.

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In contrast to President Obama’s agonizing over whether to call out Mr. Putin in the run-up to the 2016 vote, the State Department in the 1980s routinely published compendiums of Russian “active measures” in the U.S. Hits included a forged letter peddled to the Washington Post from the U.S. Information Agency [JB: see] supposedly detailing its efforts to exaggerate the Chernobyl nuclear accident, a KGB-promoted claim that HIV was cooked up in a CIA lab, and fake letters from the Ku Klux Klan to African athletes at the 1980 Summer Olympics. ...