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Dear Common Dreamer,<BR>
I wanted to share with you a news release that we sent out this morning.<BR>
Common Dreams has just published an article on our investigation into a case of massive manipulation of the comments under our articles.<BR>
I hope you can take the time to read <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/hambaconeggs" target="_blank">"The Double Identity of an "Anti-Semitic" Commenter."</a><BR>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/hambaconeggs" target="_blank"><img width="500" height="262" alt="Pouring Poison into the Internet" src="http://action.commondreams.org/images/pouring_poison_final.jpg"></a></p>
August 20, 2014<br>
10:30 am EDT<BR>
<h4><u><b>NEWS RELEASE</b></u></h4>
<h3><b>The Double Identity of an "Anti-Semitic" Commenter:</b><br>
<b>Smearing a Progressive Website to Support Israel<br>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A Common Dreams investigation has discovered that more than a <u>thousand inflammatory anti-Semitic</u> comments following its news stories over the past two years were written with a deceptive purpose <u>by a Jewish Harvard graduate in his thirties</u> irritated by the website's discussion of issues involving Israel.</span></span><BR>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This commenter successfully <u>drove away hundreds of donors</u> from Common Dreams, a nonprofit dependent on reader generosity.</span></span><BR>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">He also posted <u>1,400 times as a black, pro-white anti-Semite</u> on the white-supremacist website Vanguard News Network, where he encouraged the malevolence of the neo-Nazi Frazier Glenn Miller, <u>who is accused of killing three people</u> in Kansas he believed were Jews.<br>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The article has just been posted at: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/hambaconeggs" target="_blank">http://www.commondreams.org/hambaconeggs</a></span></span><BR>
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