<blockquote>'Pretty amazing how badly the Post appears to have mangled this one. You didn't call the Vermont utility regulator before publishing?'
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller)
December 31, 2016</blockquote>
'Few things are more dangerous to the journalistic function than groupthink, and few instruments have been invented that foster and reinforce groupthink like social media, particularly Twitter, the platform most used by journalists. ..'<blockquote>'There was no “penetration of the U.S. electricity grid.” The truth was undramatic and banal. Burlington Electric, after receiving a Homeland Security notice sent to all U.S. utility companies about the malware code found in the DNC system, searched all its computers and found the code in a single laptop that
was not connected to the electric grid.
Apparently, the Post did not even bother to contact the company before running its wildly sensationalistic claims, so Burlington Electric had to
issue its own statement to the Burlington Free Press, which debunked the Post’s central claim (emphasis in original): “We detected the malware in a single Burlington Electric Department laptop
not connected to our organization’s grid systems.”
So the key scary claim of the Post story — that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electric grid — was false. All the alarmist tough-guy statements issued by political officials who believed the Post’s claim were based on fiction.
..
Few things are more dangerous to the journalistic function than groupthink, and few instruments have been invented that foster and reinforce groupthink like social media, particularly Twitter, the platform most used by journalists. That’s a phenomenon that merits far more study, but examples like this one highlight the dynamic.'
- Glenn Greenwald,
..False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid, December 31, 2016</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
'..dismantle the Marxist myth..' - 'Karl Marx, False consciousness''..Russia .. teeming with corrupt parasites .. consuming the bear from within.'</blockquote>