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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Same as it ever was - no change for Russian hacking in upcoming 2020 election:
https://wapo.st/35XSFbF
"Facebook takedowns show new Russian activity targeted Biden, praised Trump
The company disabled a network of accounts that posed at times as locals in swing states to post on divisive political issues and the upcoming presidential election
By
Tony Romm and
Isaac Stanley-Becker
Oct. 21, 2019 at 6:46 p.m. EDT
Facebook on Monday said it removed a network of Russian-backed accounts that posed as locals weighing in on political issues in swing states, praising President Trump and attacking former vice president Joe Biden — illustrating that the familiar threat of Russian interference looms over the next U.S. presidential race.
Facebook said the network bears the hallmark of the same Kremlin-backed group that interfered in the 2016 election by sowing social discord, seeking to boost Trump and attacking Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The new disinformation campaign appears to follow the same playbook.
This time, a coordinated group of Russian accounts that appears to show some links to the Internet Research Agency largely took to Facebook’s photo-sharing app, Instagram, to post content this year about U.S. politics and memes targeting Democratic presidential contenders.
The operation demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of the schisms within the Democratic Party as it labors to choose a nominee to face Trump in 2020. One Russian account, which portrayed itself as a black voter in Michigan, used the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag to hammer Biden for gaffes about racial issues. Some of the accounts boosted one of his rivals on the left, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
The Russian network was the subject of one of four takedowns Facebook announced Monday; it also disabled three misleading campaigns originating in Iran. Researchers said the efforts demonstrated how those seeking to interfere in U.S. politics continue to exploit radioactive topics, including racial and religious fault lines. And they said it offered fresh evidence that foreign actors are pursuing new platforms that rely on a steady stream of images, making detection more difficult despite Facebook’s heightened investments in election security."
Oh well... It's called the Internet man. The only way to lock that down is to tie every single post and activity directly to individual people and go full blown Orwellian police state on the internet. Is that what you want?
In the mean time, the French have been rigging the election against Donald Trump.
Oh. Wait...
That was Mitt Romney's sockpuppet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/21/mitt-romney-pierre-de
lecto-twitter-slate/
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“Why are we talking about Pierre Delecto,” one person asked.
“WTH is a Pierre Delecto & why is everyone going crazy about it?” another wanted to know.
On Sunday, Twitter users lost their collective minds when they learned that Pierre Delecto wasn’t a bot or a random Romney superfan, but an account run by the Republican senator himself. As Delecto, Romney, who has become one of President Trump’s most vocal GOP critics, used the account to like critical tweets about the president, while also occasionally defending himself against detractors. By early Monday, the unusual pseudonym was a trending moment on Twitter and had been mentioned in more than 47,000 tweets.
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Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Same as it ever was - no change for Russian hacking in upcoming 2020 election:
https://wapo.st/35XSFbF
"Facebook takedowns show new Russian activity targeted Biden, praised Trump
The company disabled a network of accounts that posed at times as locals in swing states to post on divisive political issues and the upcoming presidential election
By
Tony Romm and
Isaac Stanley-Becker
Oct. 21, 2019 at 6:46 p.m. EDT
Facebook on Monday said it removed a network of Russian-backed accounts that posed as locals weighing in on political issues in swing states, praising President Trump and attacking former vice president Joe Biden — illustrating that the familiar threat of Russian interference looms over the next U.S. presidential race.
Facebook said the network bears the hallmark of the same Kremlin-backed group that interfered in the 2016 election by sowing social discord, seeking to boost Trump and attacking Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The new disinformation campaign appears to follow the same playbook.
This time, a coordinated group of Russian accounts that appears to show some links to the Internet Research Agency largely took to Facebook’s photo-sharing app, Instagram, to post content this year about U.S. politics and memes targeting Democratic presidential contenders.
The operation demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of the schisms within the Democratic Party as it labors to choose a nominee to face Trump in 2020. One Russian account, which portrayed itself as a black voter in Michigan, used the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag to hammer Biden for gaffes about racial issues. Some of the accounts boosted one of his rivals on the left, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
The Russian network was the subject of one of four takedowns Facebook announced Monday; it also disabled three misleading campaigns originating in Iran. Researchers said the efforts demonstrated how those seeking to interfere in U.S. politics continue to exploit radioactive topics, including racial and religious fault lines. And they said it offered fresh evidence that foreign actors are pursuing new platforms that rely on a steady stream of images, making detection more difficult despite Facebook’s heightened investments in election security."
Yep, to true G. I'm pretty sure these big social media companies are going to be regulated like main stream media. After all, it called social media. It can't happen soon enough for me.
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Originally posted by THG:
Yep, to true G. I'm pretty sure these big social media companies are going to be regulated like main stream media. After all, it called social media. It can't happen soon enough for me.
Of course you can't wait.
You're an authoritarian jackboot thug.
You would have made an excellent Nazi in the mid 40's.
But seriously. Nobody is worried about your type.
If and when you morons manage to bleach and sanitize the mainstream social media sites, and Mika gets her wish that Morning Joe will control what everyone thinks, everyone with half a brain will have already jumped ship to alternative media sites that are already on the rise.
I'm just fine with two Internets.
You can have the millennials who are mostly going to stay over there. Gen Z will be following Gen X to the cool side.
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I'll remember you posted that cartoon when you hate on her next week.
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"You Could Fit All the Voters Who Cost Clinton the Election in a Mid-Size Football Stadium"
Shit, you could fit all the people who cost Clinton the election in one chair.
She was the one who ran such a lousy campaign it was that close over many, many states.
MEANWHILE, we still have the electoral college because GUESS WHAT!! it's written in the Constitution. Get over it ... unless you really like being anti-American.
The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.
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Tomorrow's another big day for Trump. 10 am streaming live on C-span, can a sitting president be indicted? Looks like he can so far. The sitting judge says Trumps assertion he could not was repugnant. Look it up. Trumps lawyers appeal tomorrow, federal district court.
tick tock
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Here's the actual court document, since you can't even be bothered to provide a link to a Legacy Media article that boils a 75 page document down to a one sentence sound byte with a big word like repugnant in it.
https://games-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/d396
4ebc-adb2-4ff9-9364-9fda4b4ae025/note/9c4663de-c5c5-495e-ace4-757acc13e0de.pdf#page=1
Who is Victor Marrero?
- 78 year old Senior Judge of the US Court for the Southern District of New York, originally from Puerto Rico.
- Appointed by Bill Clinton in October of 1999.
- Preceded by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
At the end of the day, I don't even disagree with the assertion that a sitting president cannot be indicted. Unlike our rabid lefty partisans here, I can recognize how bending the laws today to get what you want will lead to the next guy or gal bending them even further until one of them breaks the whole damn thing off.
That being said, however, let's not kid ourselves that this particular Judge was ever going to side with Trump on anything, however benign it may have been.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
"You Could Fit All the Voters Who Cost Clinton the Election in a Mid-Size Football Stadium"
Shit, you could fit all the people who cost Clinton the election in one chair.
She was the one who ran such a lousy campaign it was that close over many, many states.
MEANWHILE, we still have the electoral college because GUESS WHAT!! it's written in the Constitution. Get over it ... unless you really like being anti-American.
The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.
Even the Legacy Media is turning against Hillary.
I'm starting to have my doubts that she will be a late entry into the race. It's not good when the Clinton News Network is taking jabs at her over her comments on Tulsi.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/politics/tulsi-gabbard-hillary-clinton-
russia/index.html
This is just one of quite a few articles and videos from CNN on the topic. They've gone as far as to actually say the words "conspiracy theorist" when referring to Clinton here.
And as far as I can find, none of the other Democrat candidates still in the race agree with Clinton's tweet either. Sanders and Buttigieg have both come out defending Gabbard.
But, overall, the Democrats are scared. They know they have nothing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/politics/democratic-candidates-2
020.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
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Anxious Democratic Establishment Asks, ‘Is There Anybody Else?’
Party leaders who are fatalistic about Democrats’ chances in 2020 are musing about possible late entrants to the race. Sherrod Brown? Michelle Obama?
This has even given AOC the opportunity to make the tweet of her short political career:
https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1186633016807964673
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If ~2 years and 20+ candidates aren't enough for ya, I don't know what to tell you.
Priceless.
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Follow jacks link and read pg. 68. Trump loses. Judges says Trump does not have immunity from prosecution. Jacks a moron. He posted proof of what I posted. Thanks moron...
https://games-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/d396
4ebc-adb2-4ff9-9364-9fda4b4ae025/note/9c4663de-c5c5-495e-ace4-757acc13e0de.pdf#page=1
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