Matt Drudge slammed The Washington Post for a story published Friday that analyzed Drudge Report, his news aggregation site, for what the paper called regularly linking to “Russia propaganda” during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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“I’ve linked to @washingtonpost over 10,000X in 25 years of doing DRUDGEREPORT,” Drudge wrote to his 546,000 followers.
“I currently give them 37% of their referral traffic, according to http://similarweb.com. It’s a brutal business. Not even a thank you. Instead: YOU’RE A RUSSIAN OPERATIVE!”
The Post analysis cites conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars, RT (formerly known as Russia Today) and Sputnik News as three sites Drudge frequently links to on his site.
“DrudgeReportArchives captures an image of the Drudge Report every two minutes, as it has for 16 years,” the analysis reads.
“We ran a script that checked the first update to Drudge Report after 9 a.m. on every day of the past decade, counting the number of times Drudge linked to Infowars, RT or Sputnik. Over that period, excluding the two standing links to Infowars, we tallied more than 1,000 links to those sites.”
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Drudge fires back at Washington Post over report on him linking to Russian propaganda https://t.co/SAi4Wbyya7 pic.twitter.com/iSTPqyf7pV
— The Hill (@thehill) November 13, 2017
Drudge did not respond to the allegation.
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