Reply With Quoteevince (02-15-2018)
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Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting
Each new breaking news situation is an opportunity for trolls to grab attention, provoke emotions, and spread propaganda. The Russian government knows this. Fake-news manufacturing teenagers in Macedonia know this. Twitter bot creators know this. And thanks to data-gathering operations from groups like the Alliance for Securing Democracy and RoBhat Labs, the world knows this.
In the wake of Wednesday’s Parkland, Florida school shooting, which resulted in 17 deaths, troll and bot-tracking sites reported an immediate uptick in related tweets from political propaganda bots and Russia-linked Twitter accounts. Hamilton 68, a website created by Alliance for Securing Democracy, tracks Twitter activity from accounts it has identified as linked to Russian influence campaigns. As of morning, shooting-related terms dominated the site’s trending hashtags and topics, including Parkland, guncontrolnow, Florida, guncontrol, and Nikolas Cruz, the name of the alleged shooter. Popular trending topics among the bot network include shooter, NRA, shooting, Nikolas, Florida, and teacher.
https://www.wired.com/story/pro-gun-...land-shooting/
ONE-N-DONE, YOU GOT PLAYED; Time To Play-On
Remember ... ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES ... So STFU Bitch
evince (02-15-2018)
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Our Russia Fixation Is Devolving Into an Assault on Political DiscourseAlliance for Securing Democracy
A new project by the German Marshall Fund claims to track the influence of foreign propaganda—but warps reality to accommodate an alarming new Russophobia.
The ASD, which according to a GMF spokesperson is “funded by a group of American private individuals and small family foundations,” is, in reality, an alliance between longtime Republican neocons and Democratic war hawks such as William Kristol, David Kramer, former CIA acting director Michael Morell, Hillary Clinton foreign-policy adviser Jake Sullivan and former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.
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How will it achieve this goal? By tracking 600 Twitter accounts which are said to be furthering Russian influence in the United States.
The specific criteria GMF uses when deeming an account “meaningfully linked” to Russian “disinformation campaigns” was left unstated. And GMF will not name the 600 accounts on its radar because, “We prefer to focus on the behavior of the overall network rather than get dragged into hundreds of individual debates over which troll fits which role.”
By following the activity of the 600 accounts, the GMF website is able to track the top and trending domains over a 48-hour period. So far, the site has listed mainstream news outlets like TheAtlantic.com and conservative sources like TheDailyCaller.com and FoxNews.com alongside Russian-funded outlets like RT.com and SputnikNews.com on its watch list.
The import of GMF’s project is clear: Reporting on anything that might put the United States in a bad light is now tantamount to spreading Russian propaganda.
Perhaps this shouldn’t be at all surprising. After all, the January 6 declassified intelligence report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Russia’s alleged campaign to influence the outcome of the election asserted that RT’s reporting on Occupy Wall Street and fracking helped tilt the election to Donald J. Trump.
The import of GMF’s project is clear: Reporting on anything that might put the US in a bad light is now tantamount to spreading Russian propaganda.
Projects like Hamilton 68 are the opposite of what one would expect in an open society like the United States: In essence, it seeks to police and narrow the scope of acceptable political discourse. The implicit message is that Americans should ignore unpleasant news so long as it comes from foreign outlets, regardless of the veracity of the story.
That the well-regarded German Marshall Fund has succumbed to the Russophobia now so in vogue across the political spectrum is cause for both sadness and concern.
https://www.thenation.com/article/ou...cal-discourse/
*such horseshit is enflamed and sold by Russiaphobia*
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The ASD might embrace the “Russian panic” and today’s project is “Reporting on anything that might put the US in a bad light is now tantamount to spreading Russian propaganda.” But tomorrows message will evolve into Reporting on anything that might put the US in a bad light will be tantamount to false, subversive, or seditious. (comments)
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Meanwhile, in far-off Ukraine
15 February 2018
Russia was behind a devastating cyber attack on Ukraine’s banks, government and power grid, the Foreign Office has said.
Cyber experts at the National Cyber Security Centre say the GRU Russian military intelligence agency was almost certainly responsible for the NotPetya attack in June 2017.
The Foreign Office last night said the attack had masqueraded as criminal ransomware, but had in fact been a deliberate attack on the Ukrainian state.
The accusation against Russia comes after Gavin Williamson, the Defence Secretary, told The Daily Telegraph a Russian attack on Britain’s national infrastructure could kill thousands.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018...oreign-office/
Huh, the Trumpsters explained this. Been going on for decades - happens all the time - nothing to see here, folks.
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Kill guns, then there will be peace....Originally Posted by Bourbon
-- The Left
Free speech is cool as long as it jibes with our program.
-- The Left
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ROFL...of course "da Russians" -NOT plain old criminal ransomware.The Foreign Office last night said the attack had masqueraded as criminal ransomware, but had in fact been a deliberate attack on the Ukrainian state.
for what purpose?
The Ukraine Crimea annexation is a done deal;
now it's the war in Donbass that pits Ukrainian militias against Russian separatists.
It's basically a border war. Kviv wants to extend it's authority east -Putin wants to keep Donbass a Russian speaking enclave with economic ties to Russia.
so..WHY would the FSU be interested in Ukraine's banks??
would not it be much more logical that the ransomware was just that and not some secret Russian plot?
*It's more Russiaphobia on display*
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..WAPO published a similar claim that was debunked as fake newsMr Williamson said last month that Russia was spying on British energy supplies with a view to disrupting them, possibly by cyber attack...That attack has been blamed on hackers linked to North Korea but it is Russia which Whitehall is most concerned about.
Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical grid security, officials say
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electric grid. Authorities say there is no indication of that so far. The computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.cd7e35aafab8
Gestapo Joe is a China Ho
As of morning, shooting-related terms dominated the site’s trending hashtags and topics, including Parkland, guncontrolnow, Florida, guncontrol, and Nikolas Cruz, the name of the alleged shooter. Popular trending topics among the bot network include shooter, NRA, shooting, Nikolas, Florida, and teacher.
Fucking anti-gun Ruskkies.
Of course, they want us disarmed you stupid liberal pigs.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
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it aint the Russkies BD..they could give a shit about US guns
Fucking anti-gun Ruskkies.
Of course, they want us disarmed you stupid liberal pigs.
The ASD, which according to a GMF spokesperson is “funded by a group of American private individuals and small family foundations,” is, in reality, an alliance between longtime Republican neocons and Democratic war hawks such as William Kristol, David Kramer, former CIA acting director Michael Morell, Hillary Clinton foreign-policy adviser Jake Sullivan and former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.
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Dick Morris tells this story about Bill Clinton and Yeltsin: “When I worked for Clinton, Clinton called me and said, ‘I want to get Yeltsin elected as president of Russia against Gennady Zyuganov, who was the communist who was running against him. Putin was Zyuganov’s major backer.…
“We, Clinton and I, would go through it and Bill would pick up the hotline and talk to Yeltsin and tell him what commercials to run, where to campaign, what positions to take. He basically became Yeltsin’s political consultant.
“I think that Putin resented that, hated it, thought that it was an inappropriate intervention by Bill Clinton and I think he’s determined to take his revenge out on Hillary Clinton.”
dukkha (02-15-2018)
Gestapo Joe is a China Ho
Could be, Noise.
I just wanted to point out ... that there wasn't anything .... anything about pro-gun tweets in the OP. That hashtags like guncontrolnow are actually anti-gun
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
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Putin had complained about US meddling -and I'm sure he blamed the Clinton who were behind the IMF loans that were uesd to campaign for Yeltsin
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the OP is garbage..it's fake news put out by a bunch of neoconsCould be, Noise.
I just wanted to point out ... that there wasn't anything .... anything about pro-gun tweets in the OP. That hashtags like guncontrolnow are actually anti-gun
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