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The amount of conjecture in this article is astounding. "3 websites say something is true, so that means something is true." Jawz101 (talk) 16:50, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jawz101, what are you referring to? Because if it's The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post wrote that the promotion of these conspiracy theories was an example of fake news, those "3 websites" are reliable sources, which means it is verified content. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:00, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"If enough for-profit rags repeat the same trash, it's indisputably true." What a fucking nightmare. 73.193.109.117 (talk) 22:56, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you don't like the way mainstream media report news, then you need to get policy changed. TFD (talk) 16:30, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Russian Collusion hoax

No reliable sources provided. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 14:12, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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There is proof that the entire Russian Collision story is a hoax, with 1000's of signed documents by Obama, approving, promoting, and furthering it with documents proving that Hillary Clinton, James Comey and other high ranking Democrat officials were all part of the giant hoax. This article needs to be corrected, removing the "evidence" of (fabricated on a collosal government level) Russian collusion, which is being used in the article as the evidence eliminatinating Seth's intention to expose the DNC and Hillary Clinton. Lady Sapientia (talk) 18:32, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Provide any of that "proof" here. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:33, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.westernjournal.com/obama-order-doctored-russia-report-page-72-gabbards-classified-doc-dump-sure-sounds-like/

Obama was the originator of the hoax, not Hillary. ~2025-43036-63 (talk) 05:00, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seth Rich is not mentioned in the link. So this is not the place for it, if there is one. Andre🚐 05:37, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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