06.01.2017 - 08:40 [ Techdirt ]

Potential New FCC Boss Blames Obama For The Washington Post‘s Botched Russian Utility Hacking Story

But when Eisenach isn‘t busy dreaming about dismantling net neutrality, he can apparently be found writing logically incoherent op-eds over at the Wall Street Journal. In a strange little tirade posted on January 3, Eisenach quite correctly ridicules the Washington Post‘s recent false claim that Russians were busy hacking U.S. utilities. In short, a piece of common malware was found on one PC, and because the Washington Post couldn‘t be bothered to even call the company in question, the paper created a bogus narrative, based entirely on anonymous sources, that casually pushed the country closer to war.