A message from embassy trolls.
From Russia with love, as it rolls.
AP checked: Is it true?
April fool! We fooled you!
They fooled AP’s “fake news” controls!
The automated switchboard at the Russian embassy had yesterday this recorded message:
“You have reached the Russian Embassy. Your call is very important to us.”
“To arrange a call from a Russian diplomat to your political opponent, press 1.”
” To use the services of Russian hackers, press 2.”
” To request election interference, press 3, and wait until the next election campaign”
The Associated Press reports—because, apparently, AP felt the need to check—it was able to confirm the recording was meant as a “joke.”
Yes, AP has fact checkers. They used at least nine to fact check Sarah Palin’s book, “Going rouge”, but no one was the slightest interested in fact checking first candidate, then president Obama, his words were not to be fact checked, at least not by AP.
And they do not understand what is a joke.
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