'Putin's chef' Yevgeny Prigozhin admits interfering in U.S. elections
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I'm not saying whether interference occurred or not and I don't know whether CBC knows the answer, either. I'm just seeing CBC's opportunity for manipulating public opinion.
- Why am I hearing this?
- Why am I hearing this now?
Verdict: noise, not signal.
> Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday he had interfered in U.S. elections and would continue doing so in future, the first such admission from a figure who has been formally implicated by Washington in efforts to influence American politics.
> In comments posted by the press service of his Concord catering firm on Russia's Facebook equivalent VKontakte, Prigozhin said: "We have interfered (in U.S. elections), we are interfering and we will continue to interfere. Carefully, accurately, surgically and in our own way, as we know how to do."
> The remark was posted on the eve of the U.S. midterm elections in response to a request for comment from a Russian news site.
>"During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once," Prigozhin said. He did not elaborate on the cryptic comment.
You're hearing it because it's news, and you're hearing it now because said news happened today.