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| Trump urges Senate to probe American ‘Fake News Networks’ | Trump urges Senate to probe American ‘Fake News Networks’ |
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| While the Senate Intelligence Committee is investigating Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 US election, President Donald Trump has urged the body to look into American media to see why “so much of our news is just made up-FAKE!” | While the Senate Intelligence Committee is investigating Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 US election, President Donald Trump has urged the body to look into American media to see why “so much of our news is just made up-FAKE!” |
| “Why Isn't the Senate Intel Committee looking into the Fake News Networks in OUR country to see why so much of our news is just made up-FAKE!” Trump tweeted Thursday morning, the day after the Senate Intelligence Committee updated reporters about its months-long investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the US election. | |
| While the committee has yet to come up with any “findings,” congressional investigators are now focused on a new aspect of the alleged meddling – “the Russians’ use of social media platforms,” – committee chairman Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) and its ranking member, Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia), told reporters. | |
| READ MORE: $100k ‘Russian’ Facebook ads are a drop in the bucket, pretext to discredit Trump – senator | |
| “The Russia hoax continues, now it’s ads on Facebook. What about the totally biased and dishonest media coverage in favor of Crooked Hillary?” Trump tweeted on September 22, after the social media giant said it found 3,000 ads on “divisive” social issues which were “likely” run from Russia. | |
| “The greatest influence over our election was the Fake News Media ‘screaming’ for Crooked Hillary Clinton,” Trump added. | |
| The US president has long complained about major US media outlets being against him during and after the election. He labeled a number of them, including the Washington Post, The New York Times and CNN, “fake news.” |