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Daily Beast Story About Spy Chief Allegations Trump Recruited as a Russian Asset in 1987 is disappearing from the internet. (www.dailykos.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by pelespirit to c/politics
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I expected to see this story covered heavily here, but nary a peep, and within hours, it was scrubbed from both the Daily Beast’s site, as well as various other outlets on the internet. There is no retraction on the Daily Beast site, or even any acknowledgment that the story existed, and several republishers have pulled the story as well.

If you go to Google news and search “Trump Krasnov,” you may still find a couple of sites where the story, either in the van Brugen version, or under other bylines, is still up, but they are dropping like flies.

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[–] pelespirit 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I opened up my browser and this showed up on the News at Lemmy.world. I signed in and it disappeared. I went through the process again and it happened again, but I opened it while I wasn't signed in. That is why I'm reposting it. BTW, I'm a subscriber of the news at Lemmy.World.

Daily Beast is owned by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAC_Inc.

In October 2021, IAC announced the acquisition of Meredith Corporation's National Media Group for $2.7 billion. The deal closed December 1, 2021,[74] and the acquired Meredith (and the former Time Inc.) assets merged with IAC subsidiary Dotdash, forming a new entity called Dotdash Meredith.[75]

In August 2022, IAC officially changed its legal entity (IAC/InterActiveCorp) to reflect what it is actually called: IAC Inc. In October, IAC agreed to sell its workforce-as-a-service platform Bluecrew to EmployBridge[76] with IAC remaining a minority shareholder in Bluecrew's business.

Edit: Everything seems to be showing up properly now, signed in or not. Yay?

[–] thelsim 5 points 2 weeks ago

The article is still available through the internet archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250221153932/https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-intelligence-officer-alnur-mussayev-claims-kgb-recruited-donald-trump-under-codename-krasnov/

[–] Estiar 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It sounds truthy enough, but there's nothing to validate it. It's equally possible (or rather I'm almost certain) that this is Russian propaganda designed to split the USA even more. I wouldn't pay much attention to this right now.

That said, he keeps playing into Russian talking points as if he were Dimitri Medvedev himself