Alt-media has been addressing the falsities in mainstream media already for years, but now the "fake news" is a buzz word hype that is more talked about and gets more coverage. It's also being used to target alt-media. These are two factors which make it appropriate to talk about as it has the most visibility, and importance to alt-media as well.
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I was just reading this: http://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-ddos-drudge-report-2017-1
Drudge Reports is an Aggregator service. Meaning it links to news articles all over the place.
Yet according to that article it is being called a Russian News service.
I don't actually EVER recall reading a news article written by Drudge Reports. As far as I can tell they simple scour the internet for news articles and list them. They might create click bait titles for them on their main page, but as far as I can tell that is all they do, and have ever done.
Not sure how that could be Russian news...
A DDOS of this level it is probable is coming from a nation state as opposed to a hacking group. A hacking group doing this I could only see one motive, someone with a big enough network of compromised machines getting a nice payday/bounty to do it. Yet even then there has been no evidence of a bot net that big operating on the internet.