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Friday, October 09, 2026

"The bill will follow Americans beyond the fighting itself," an opinion piece in the Port St. Joe Star, a tiny Florida weekly newspaper, warned of the Iran war last month. The article ran under the byline Ervin Hoskins, which has also appeared on articles critical of the war in larger publications including Daily Kos and Middle East Monitor, which together have more than 3 million followers on Facebook.

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But ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Thursday that Hoskins's purported work was generated using its chatbot by users based in Iran as part of an "influence campaign." The campaign placed about 100 fake articles across at least 20 news outlets, the company said.

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Wasn't the Washington Post one of those newspapers that disseminated fabricated info during the run-up to Bush's Iraq invasion?

Yup.

WAPO and the NYT- spreading anti-American pro-Israel propaganda for over a quarter century.

#1 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-10-09 09:41 AM | Reply

www.afp.com

www.hindustantimes.com

www.cnn.com

www.nbcnews.com

The rush to attack the source is expected.

#2 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-10-09 10:03 AM | Reply

"The rush to attack the source is expected"

Schnitzkrieg, you seem to have confused the SOURCE of news with those who DISSEMINATE the news. I'm rather UN-surprised that you didn't catch that. The source is the US government and pro-Israel agents. The usual gang of idiots, which includes most of the MSM, just catapult the propaganda. Useful idiots such as yourself, who take everything at face value, simply take that one step further.

Whatever small potatoes generated by Iran is being eclipsed 10,000-fold by "ally"Israel. The ethnosupremacist, genocidal state of Israel is the number one meddler in American foreign affairs. That continued influence is the greatest threat America is currently facing.

#3 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-10-09 10:29 AM | Reply

You attacked WAPO not the source. Thank you for playing.

#4 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-10-09 11:47 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

"You attacked WAPO not the source. Thank you for playing.

Then why did you state: "The rush to attack the source is expected."

Please don't tell me your that stupid without telling me you're that stupid.

Anyway, your fundamental lack of comprehension aside, the ethnosupremacist, genocidal state of Israel is the number one meddler in American foreign affairs. That continued influence is the greatest threat America is currently facing. If there wasn't that Zionist turd state infesting America with its psychopathic worldview, Iran would simply be a Shia version of Pakistan- just another cold ally against Russian influence in southwestern Asia.

#5 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-10-09 12:21 PM | Reply

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