Trump rallies his digital army for the next information war - 2019-07-15

Trump rallies his digital army for the next information war July 15, 2019, Caroline Orr, National Observer

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In the summer of 2016, a soon-to-be viral conspiracy theory started circulating on forums like Reddit and 4chan, claiming that the murder of Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich was not the result of a botched robbery, after all, but was actually carried out by a contract killer working for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

The baseless conspiracy theory eventually made its way from the fringes of the internet all the way into the White House, marking the beginning of what would become a defining feature of the Trump presidency.

Now, nearly three years after the conspiracy theory emerged, we may finally know where it came from.

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