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What if I fly a mile in his airplane? Does that count?
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Aaaaaaand the government has been shut down. What a capstone to a very effective first year as President.
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Cookie Monster wrote:QUOTE (Cookie Monster @ Apr 1 2009, 09:35 PM) But I don't read the forums I only post.
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/2 ... ssia_bots/
By Shaun Nichols in San Francisco 20 Jan 2018
Twitter says it will warn hundreds of thousands of tweeters who deliberately or inadvertently interacted with Kremlin bots during the 2016 US presidential election.
The micro-blogging website said that, during the White House race, some 677,775 people followed accounts controlled by Russian propaganda groups, or liked or favorited their tweets. That's a tiny amount compared to Twitter's estimated 69 million active monthly users in America, and 328 million globally, but we note that the web upstart hasn't said how many people total saw Moscow's retweeted or liked disinformation.
"Consistent with our commitment to transparency, we are emailing notifications to 677,775 people in the United States who followed one of these accounts or retweeted or liked a Tweet from these accounts during the election period," Twitter conveniently announced on Friday afternoon, Pacific Time, when basically no one in the West would be paying any attention.
"Because we have already suspended these accounts, the relevant content on Twitter is no longer publicly available."
These are the same bots that helped swing Donald Trump's 2016 electoral college victory. The profiles, designed to spread discord and confusion in America, operated on both sides of the political spectrum, but many of the most successful accounts favored Trump.
After being pressured by the US government to reveal their role in the social engineering effort, both Facebook and Twitter launched investigations that found they had not only hosted fake accounts, but also profited by running promoted posts paid for by Russian groups seeking to influence the election.
Reuters News Agency
January 19, 2018
In fight over Russia memo, Republicans have unusual ally
journalists Warren Strobel, Jonathan Landay
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers criticizing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into U.S. President Donald Trump’s ties with Russia found themselves on Friday with an unusual - and perhaps unwelcome - ally.
As Republicans called for the release of a classified memorandum that they say shows anti-Trump bias at the Justice Department, a network of Kremlin-controlled Twitter [TWTR.N]accounts swung into action to amplify that demand, according to specialists who monitor online activity sponsored by Moscow.
The use of the hashtag #releasethememo increased 315,500 percent in roughly 24 hours on 600 Twitter accounts known or suspected to be under Kremlin influence, according to the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a project of the nonpartisan German Marshall Fund think tank.
“I’ve never seen anything quite like it,” said Bret Schafer, an analyst at the Alliance.
The data can be seen at: here
There is no evidence that the Republican and Russian-backed attacks on Mueller are coordinated, but the storm underscores the role social media can play in driving political discourse.
The #releasethememo Twitter cloudburst also appears to be a microcosm of what U.S. intelligence officials say are Kremlin efforts to fan political divisions in the United States after having meddled in the 2016 presidential election, according to a declassified January 2017 U.S. intelligence assessment.
Wikileaks, the transparency group that published emails from Democratic Party organizations that U.S. intelligence officials say were stolen by Russian military intelligence during the 2016 campaign, on Friday offered to match a reward of up to $1 million for anyone who gives it the memo.
The Alliance for Securing Democracy says the 600 Twitter feeds it monitors include accounts from actors such as Russian state-run media RT and Sputnik; others that are pro-Russian and amplify government themes; and a third group that is influenced by the first two and “may or may not understand themselves to be part of a pro-Russian social network.”
Moscow has long denied any such meddling.
J.D. Maddox, who worked as a counter-terrorism official at the State Department and CIA, cautioned that the data do not necessarily pinpoint the primary driver of a social media trend.
“The only conclusion you can draw right now is that certain Russian accounts that have previously been associated with pushing anti-American narratives are also pushing this narrative and pushing it effectively,” said Maddox, an adjunct professor of national security at George Mason University.
At issue is a classified memo commissioned by Rep. Devin Nunes, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee who last year said he was removing himself from the Trump-Russia probe.
In a rare joint statement, the committee’s nine Democrats called the document “a misleading set of talking points attacking the FBI” and drawn from “highly classified” documents.
The Republicans, they said, made the memo available to all House members in preparation for a public release “for the political purpose of spreading a false narrative and undermining” Mueller and the FBI.
Republicans have suggested the memo shows the FBI and Justice Department are biased against the president and, along with U.S. intelligence agencies, improperly surveilled members of Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Current and former senior U.S. intelligence officials deny that they conducted any improper surveillance. Democrats on the panel think material in the memo is mischaracterized and taken out of context, said the committee source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Jack Langer, a spokesman for Nunes, did not respond directly to a request for comment on the Russian-linked internet activity surrounding the memo.
“This sounds like yet another ridiculous article from Reuters,” Langer said in an email.
By Shaun Nichols in San Francisco 20 Jan 2018
Twitter says it will warn hundreds of thousands of tweeters who deliberately or inadvertently interacted with Kremlin bots during the 2016 US presidential election.
The micro-blogging website said that, during the White House race, some 677,775 people followed accounts controlled by Russian propaganda groups, or liked or favorited their tweets. That's a tiny amount compared to Twitter's estimated 69 million active monthly users in America, and 328 million globally, but we note that the web upstart hasn't said how many people total saw Moscow's retweeted or liked disinformation.
"Consistent with our commitment to transparency, we are emailing notifications to 677,775 people in the United States who followed one of these accounts or retweeted or liked a Tweet from these accounts during the election period," Twitter conveniently announced on Friday afternoon, Pacific Time, when basically no one in the West would be paying any attention.
"Because we have already suspended these accounts, the relevant content on Twitter is no longer publicly available."
These are the same bots that helped swing Donald Trump's 2016 electoral college victory. The profiles, designed to spread discord and confusion in America, operated on both sides of the political spectrum, but many of the most successful accounts favored Trump.
After being pressured by the US government to reveal their role in the social engineering effort, both Facebook and Twitter launched investigations that found they had not only hosted fake accounts, but also profited by running promoted posts paid for by Russian groups seeking to influence the election.
Reuters News Agency
January 19, 2018
In fight over Russia memo, Republicans have unusual ally
journalists Warren Strobel, Jonathan Landay
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers criticizing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into U.S. President Donald Trump’s ties with Russia found themselves on Friday with an unusual - and perhaps unwelcome - ally.
As Republicans called for the release of a classified memorandum that they say shows anti-Trump bias at the Justice Department, a network of Kremlin-controlled Twitter [TWTR.N]accounts swung into action to amplify that demand, according to specialists who monitor online activity sponsored by Moscow.
The use of the hashtag #releasethememo increased 315,500 percent in roughly 24 hours on 600 Twitter accounts known or suspected to be under Kremlin influence, according to the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a project of the nonpartisan German Marshall Fund think tank.
“I’ve never seen anything quite like it,” said Bret Schafer, an analyst at the Alliance.
The data can be seen at: here
There is no evidence that the Republican and Russian-backed attacks on Mueller are coordinated, but the storm underscores the role social media can play in driving political discourse.
The #releasethememo Twitter cloudburst also appears to be a microcosm of what U.S. intelligence officials say are Kremlin efforts to fan political divisions in the United States after having meddled in the 2016 presidential election, according to a declassified January 2017 U.S. intelligence assessment.
Wikileaks, the transparency group that published emails from Democratic Party organizations that U.S. intelligence officials say were stolen by Russian military intelligence during the 2016 campaign, on Friday offered to match a reward of up to $1 million for anyone who gives it the memo.
The Alliance for Securing Democracy says the 600 Twitter feeds it monitors include accounts from actors such as Russian state-run media RT and Sputnik; others that are pro-Russian and amplify government themes; and a third group that is influenced by the first two and “may or may not understand themselves to be part of a pro-Russian social network.”
Moscow has long denied any such meddling.
J.D. Maddox, who worked as a counter-terrorism official at the State Department and CIA, cautioned that the data do not necessarily pinpoint the primary driver of a social media trend.
“The only conclusion you can draw right now is that certain Russian accounts that have previously been associated with pushing anti-American narratives are also pushing this narrative and pushing it effectively,” said Maddox, an adjunct professor of national security at George Mason University.
At issue is a classified memo commissioned by Rep. Devin Nunes, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee who last year said he was removing himself from the Trump-Russia probe.
In a rare joint statement, the committee’s nine Democrats called the document “a misleading set of talking points attacking the FBI” and drawn from “highly classified” documents.
The Republicans, they said, made the memo available to all House members in preparation for a public release “for the political purpose of spreading a false narrative and undermining” Mueller and the FBI.
Republicans have suggested the memo shows the FBI and Justice Department are biased against the president and, along with U.S. intelligence agencies, improperly surveilled members of Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Current and former senior U.S. intelligence officials deny that they conducted any improper surveillance. Democrats on the panel think material in the memo is mischaracterized and taken out of context, said the committee source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Jack Langer, a spokesman for Nunes, did not respond directly to a request for comment on the Russian-linked internet activity surrounding the memo.
“This sounds like yet another ridiculous article from Reuters,” Langer said in an email.
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Here is how to find a social media bot. Instructions from a twitter employee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64gTjdUrDFQ&t=10m22s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64gTjdUrDFQ&t=10m22s
At one point I seriously considered rethinking my stance towards Radulfr. But then he started posting random youtube videos as evidence. I think maybe I've been too nice.
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Cookie Monster wrote:QUOTE (Cookie Monster @ Apr 1 2009, 09:35 PM) But I don't read the forums I only post.
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Controversial conservative activist allegedly tried to bait protesters with ‘kill cops’ scriptRadulfr wrote:QUOTE (Radulfr @ Jan 20 2018, 04:40 PM)
https://nypost.com/2015/03/17/activist- ... ps-script/
Inside Andrew Breitbart’s and James O’Keefe’s right-wing video fantasy factory
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/james-okeefe-andrew-breitbart-videos/
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Project_Veritas
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