Disinfo Democrat Who Hatched Russian "False Flag" Pimped Own Propaganda On Hamilton68
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Quote:MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-24/disinfo-democrat-who-hatched
Disinfo Democrat Who Hatched Russian "False Flag" Pimped Own Propaganda On Hamilton68
A Democratic operative who hatched a Russian "false flag" scheme against Republican Roy Moore in last year's Alabama special election promoted his own propaganda on the dubious "Hamilton 68" website - which purports to track Russian "bot" activity, yet refuses to disclose how they do it.
Jonathon Morgan - who was paid $100,000 by liberal billionaire Reid Hoffman to orchestrate a Russian "flase flag" during the hotly contested election between Republican Roy Moore and Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, was exposed last week by the New York Times for creating thousands of fake "Russian bot" accounts to follow Moore and make it appear as though the Kremlin supported his campaign.
Jonathon Morgan, Roy Moore, Reid Hoffman
"We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet," reads an internal report on the Alabama effort obtained by the Times, which aimed to experiment "with many of the tactics now understood to have influenced the 2016 elections."
One month before the Alabama special election, Morgan promoted his own dirty work as a "trending" topic on Hamilton 68.
Perhaps most alarming is that Morgan wrote a comprehensive new report on Russian disinformation released by the Senate Intelligence Committee last week.
Some more thoughts on Democratic disinformation campaign from Jeff Gisea:
[series of tweets, go to ZH]
Meanwhile, perhaps a longshot - but what if...
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-24/disinfo-democrat-who-hatched
Disinfo Democrat Who Hatched Russian "False Flag" Pimped Own Propaganda On Hamilton68
A Democratic operative who hatched a Russian "false flag" scheme against Republican Roy Moore in last year's Alabama special election promoted his own propaganda on the dubious "Hamilton 68" website - which purports to track Russian "bot" activity, yet refuses to disclose how they do it.
Jonathon Morgan - who was paid $100,000 by liberal billionaire Reid Hoffman to orchestrate a Russian "flase flag" during the hotly contested election between Republican Roy Moore and Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, was exposed last week by the New York Times for creating thousands of fake "Russian bot" accounts to follow Moore and make it appear as though the Kremlin supported his campaign.
Jonathon Morgan, Roy Moore, Reid Hoffman
"We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet," reads an internal report on the Alabama effort obtained by the Times, which aimed to experiment "with many of the tactics now understood to have influenced the 2016 elections."
One month before the Alabama special election, Morgan promoted his own dirty work as a "trending" topic on Hamilton 68.
Perhaps most alarming is that Morgan wrote a comprehensive new report on Russian disinformation released by the Senate Intelligence Committee last week.
Some more thoughts on Democratic disinformation campaign from Jeff Gisea:
[series of tweets, go to ZH]
Meanwhile, perhaps a longshot - but what if...
-russian-false-flag-pimped-own-propaganda-hamilton68
Oh, wow. Things might be getting wonky here. The post I tried to quote got edited in mid-quote.
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Factual Reporting: MIXED
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Factual Reporting: MIXED
Country: Bulgaria
World Press Freedom Rank: Bulgaria 45/180
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What does the "World Press Freedom Rank" mean?
CNN and Vox and Fox News all have "USA 45/180". Mother Jones doesn't even seem to have one.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by reaverfan:
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE
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Factual Reporting: MIXED
Country: Bulgaria
World Press Freedom Rank: Bulgaria 45/180
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Bulgaria? Why pick Bulgaria?
In any case ... Here, son, maybe you'll "believe" THIS source ...
Quote:It did more than "imitate Russia, but read further ...
Secret Experiment in Alabama Senate Race Imitated Russian Tactics
Quote:RUSSIA!RUSSIA!RUSSIA!
As Russia’s online election machinations came to light last year, a group of Democratic tech experts decided to try out similarly deceptive tactics in the fiercely contested Alabama Senate race, according to people familiar with the effort and a report on its results.
The secret project, carried out on Facebook and Twitter, was likely too small to have a significant effect on the race, in which the Democratic candidate it was designed to help, Doug Jones, edged out the Republican, Roy S. Moore. But it was a sign that American political operatives of both parties have paid close attention to the Russian methods, which some fear may come to taint elections in the United States.
One participant in the Alabama project, Jonathon Morgan, is the chief executive of New Knowledge, a small cyber security firm that wrote a scathing account of Russia’s social media operations in the 2016 election that was released this week by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
An internal report on the Alabama effort, obtained by The New York Times, says explicitly that it “experimented with many of the tactics now understood to have influenced the 2016 elections.”
The project’s operators created a [fake] Facebook page on which they posed as conservative Alabamians, using it to try to divide Republicans and even to endorse a write-in candidate to draw votes from Mr. Moore.
It involved a scheme to link the Moore campaign to thousands of Russian accounts that suddenly began following the Republican candidate on Twitter, a development that drew national media attention.
“We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet,” the report says.
Quote:Except ... they ran it during an election against the opposing party. Jeez, what liars.
Mr. Morgan said in an interview that the Russian botnet ruse “does not ring a bell,” adding that others had worked on the effort and had written the report. He said he saw the project as “a small experiment” designed to explore how certain online tactics worked, not to affect the election.
Quote:Or roughly 20X the amount that FB said that "Russia" spent, on a much larger campaign ....
Mr. Morgan said he could not account for the claims in the report that the project sought to “enrage and energize Democrats” and “depress turnout” among Republicans, partly by emphasizing accusations that Mr. Moore had pursued teenage girls when he was a prosecutor in his 30s.
“The research project was intended to help us understand how these kind of campaigns operated,” said Mr. Morgan. “We thought it was useful to work in the context of a real election but design it to have almost no impact.”
The project had a budget of just $100,000
Quote:As opposed to the Presidential campaign, which cost approximately $6.8 BILLION ... but who's counting?
in a race that cost approximately $51 million
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including the primaries, according to Federal Election Commission records.
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Disinfo Democrat Who Hatched Russian "False Flag" Pimped Own Propaganda On Hamilton68
A Democratic operative who hatched a Russian "false flag" scheme against Republican Roy Moore in last year's Alabama special election promoted his own propaganda on the dubious "Hamilton 68" website - which purports to track Russian "bot" activity, yet refuses to disclose how they do it.
Jonathon Morgan - who was paid $100,000 by liberal billionaire Reid Hoffman to orchestrate a Russian "flase flag" during the hotly contested election between Republican Roy Moore and Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, was exposed last week by the New York Times for creating thousands of fake "Russian bot" accounts to follow Moore and make it appear as though the Kremlin supported his campaign.
Jonathon Morgan, Roy Moore, Reid Hoffman
"We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet," reads an internal report on the Alabama effort obtained by the Times, which aimed to experiment "with many of the tactics now understood to have influenced the 2016 elections."
One month before the Alabama special election, Morgan promoted his own dirty work as a "trending" topic on Hamilton 68.
Perhaps most alarming is that Morgan wrote a comprehensive new report on Russian disinformation released by the Senate Intelligence Committee last week.
Some more thoughts on Democratic disinformation campaign from Jeff Gisea:
[series of tweets, go to ZH]
Meanwhile, perhaps a longshot - but what if...
-russian-false-flag-pimped-own-propaganda-hamilton68
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Originally posted by THGRRI:
I think this needs its own thread. SIG pulls most of her information that she posts here from this blog and stupidly defends it as a reputable source. As she continues to do so I will regenerate this thread to remind all it is a corrupted blog designed to create havoc rather than informing.
Below are the names of those behind zero hedge. Don't miss what I've highlighted in red below. This folks is why comrade troll SIG loves to quote zero hedge.
In addition, Lokey said he faced constant pressure to frame stories in-line with a particular world-view, which he described as “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladmir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”
All of this matches SIG's playbook here and Putin's globally; exactly.
The men behind zero hedge
Colin Lokey, a 32-year-old former Seeking Alpha director
Daniel Ivandjiiski, a 37-year-old Bulgarian-born former hedge fund employee who was barred for insider trading in 2008
Tim Backshall, a 45-year-old credit derivatives strategist
Despite its populist tone, Lokey told Bloomberg he recently left Zero Hedge because he didn’t see eye-to-eye with the others when it came to editorial vision.
“Zero Hedge ceased to serve that public service years ago,” Lokey said. “They care what generates page views. Clicks. Money.”
In addition, Lokey said he faced constant pressure to frame stories in-line with a particular world-view, which he described as “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladmir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”
Lokey claims Zero Hedge’s focus on traffic and revenue is hypocritical, but Ivandjiiski sees things differently.
Finally, Zero Hedge addressed the accusations of systematic bias in its content.
“We are certainly ok with being the object of other’s conspiracy theories, in this case completely false ones since we have never been in contact with anyone in Russia, or the US, or any government for that matte
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Signym: “Russia = good. Obama = idiot. Bashar al-Assad = benevolent leader. John Kerry = dunce. Vladimir Putin = greatest leader in the history of statecraft.” That sounds like your formula. It is Zero Hedge’s formula.
Each post on Zero Hedge is written under the pseudonym Tyler Durden, Brad Pitt’s character from “Fight Club,” a workingman’s nihilist. Lokey revealed to Bloomberg last week that Durden was actually three men: two wealthy financial analysts, Daniel Ivandjiiski and Tim Backshall, and Lokey, a recent M.B.A. from East Tennessee State University—their hired hand.
By his own account, Lokey was writing as many as fifteen posts a day, among them most of the political pieces. The gig had a certain formula, he told Bloomberg: “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry= dunce. Vladimir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.” For Zero Hedge, Syria was a special obsession, a sign of the essential strength of authoritarian regimes and the weakness of democracies. (“Putin Is Winning the Final Chess Match with Obama,” one Zero Hedge article claimed last fall.) The pace of the propaganda was too much for Lokey; last month, he checked himself into a hospital, believing he was on the verge of a panic attack. The populism seemed false to him. “Two guys who live a lifestyle you can only dream of are pretending to speak for you,” he wrote. The “unmasking” that Bloomberg promised in its headline was really two, one inside the other. Remove the Tyler Durden mask and there were Backshall and Ivandjiiski, two successful bankers pushing populism. Remove the mask again and there was Lokey, pretending to be them. “This isn’t a revolution,” Lokey wrote. “It’s a joke.”
www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/is-the-alt-right-for-rea
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:The same story, SECONDRATE, was in the NEW YORK TIMES. Does the NEW YORK TIMES spread Russian propaganda?
Originally posted by second:
Signym: “Russia = good. Obama = idiot. Bashar al-Assad = benevolent leader. John Kerry = dunce. Vladimir Putin = greatest leader in the history of statecraft.” That sounds like your formula. It is Zero Hedge’s formula.
I noticed that since you couldn't refute the CONTENT of the articles, you (once again!) resort to
1) attacking the poster (me)
2) lying, by completely misrepresenting me and attempting to smear me with RUSSIA!!(Yanno, like the Dem operative did. Maybe tha's what YOU are? An operative?)
3) attacking one source (and ignoring the other!)
In reality, SECOND, THIS is what I'm saying ...
SECOND = liar, deranged, libeler
THUGR = idiot, troll, libeler
GSTRING = liar, troll, libeler
REAVERFAN = troll, libeler, idiot
Jeez, SECOND, this is CHRISTMAS for god's sake! Can't you stop being an asshole just for one day???
Apparently not!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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But yanno, no matter whether you attack me or not, or attack ZeroHedge or not, there is that article in the New York Times (YOUR paper of record) saying the same thing:
A Democratic operative attempted to influence a campaign by creating "Russian" bots and planting them on social media.
So, refute THAT, if you can.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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Quote:Why bother refuting it? As the NYTimes article said: “It was weird. The whole thing was weird.” The weirdness had as much affect on the election as a UFO sighting, although I have heard of people quitting their jobs and giving away all their possessions because the arrival of space aliens on UFOs signaled the End of the World. Do you really think this is that Big Deal, Signym? Are you getting ready to give away all your possessions over a single story in the New York Times?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
But yanno, no matter whether you attack me or not, or attack ZeroHedge or not, there is that article in the New York Times (YOUR paper of record) saying the same thing:
A Democratic operative attempted to influence a campaign by creating "Russian" bots and planting them on social media.
So, refute THAT, if you can.
www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jones-russia.html
Maybe I was being too subtle, Signym. I will be blunter: you have shrugged off thousands of stories about Trump, Russia, election interference with a "No Evidence" and "No Collusion". I'm not switching political parties over one story about Senator Doug Jones and election interference.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:
Signym: “Russia = good. Obama = idiot. Bashar al-Assad = benevolent leader. John Kerry = dunce. Vladimir Putin = greatest leader in the history of statecraft.” That sounds like your formula. It is Zero Hedge’s formula.
Each post on Zero Hedge is written under the pseudonym Tyler Durden, Brad Pitt’s character from “Fight Club,” a workingman’s nihilist. Lokey revealed to Bloomberg last week that Durden was actually three men: two wealthy financial analysts, Daniel Ivandjiiski and Tim Backshall, and Lokey, a recent M.B.A. from East Tennessee State University—their hired hand.
By his own account, Lokey was writing as many as fifteen posts a day, among them most of the political pieces. The gig had a certain formula, he told Bloomberg: “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry= dunce. Vladimir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.” For Zero Hedge, Syria was a special obsession, a sign of the essential strength of authoritarian regimes and the weakness of democracies. (“Putin Is Winning the Final Chess Match with Obama,” one Zero Hedge article claimed last fall.) The pace of the propaganda was too much for Lokey; last month, he checked himself into a hospital, believing he was on the verge of a panic attack. The populism seemed false to him. “Two guys who live a lifestyle you can only dream of are pretending to speak for you,” he wrote. The “unmasking” that Bloomberg promised in its headline was really two, one inside the other. Remove the Tyler Durden mask and there were Backshall and Ivandjiiski, two successful bankers pushing populism. Remove the mask again and there was Lokey, pretending to be them. “This isn’t a revolution,” Lokey wrote. “It’s a joke.”
www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/is-the-alt-right-for-rea
l
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Sigs a troll SECOND. You've, as others, have pointed this out many times and her posts provide the best evidence of this.
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What to learn from that event?
Democrats feel free to BLAME RUSSIA for all of their own failings, to the point where they will plant false content and label it as "Russian". That's called a "false flag" ... something the CIA excels at btw.
If there was "no effect" on a statewide election, after this group spent $100,000 on this project, how much effect do you think "Russians" would have had after spending $4,700 on FB in a nationwide election?
Because of the ability to create false accounts, it's very easy for ANY entity to swoop in and blizzard a platform. You will notice that the fake FB account appeared and disappeared very quickly.
SECOND and THUGR close their eyes and plug their ears to even the POSSIBILITY that Democrats engage in such nefarious activities ... even tho Dems and Repubs have been engaging in "dirty tricks" for decades.
Because they have no substantive rebuttal, they will resort to their usual assholeness, even tho it's CHRISTMAS for god's sake! because they're ideologically-possessed.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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