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wonderyak on Aug 30, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. "backed plan to launch chemical attack on Syr...

Really? A Daily Mail story for which the source is Infowars?

intslack on Aug 30, 2013 [–]

The "source" was a german hacker:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130507122447/http://www.cyberwa...

WayneDB on Aug 30, 2013 | [–]

No, the source was the set of documents that he released.

~200MB worth of documents to be approximately exact. Are they fake? Who do we trust and why? Every "fact" we're given comes second hand.

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