On 1/9/23 7:29 PM, ScottW wrote:
On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 2:08:09 PM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
On 1/9/23 12:49 PM, ScottW wrote:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/09/russian-trolls-twitter-had-little-influence-2016-voters/
Stephen is the exception as he needs gov't protection from influence.
https://www.chron.com/politics/texas/article/Russians-duped-Texans-into-fake-rallies-in-Houston-12326774.php
So you went to a rally...did it affect your vote?
Just proof Russians had some influence. Go poll the rally attendees.
I suppose I should go look at your WaPo link...
Not journalism. Downplays Russian influence by limiting it to only
Twitter. Note it doesn't take into account Facebook activity or weeks of
"but her emails" coverage that commenced after Russian hacking.
and the OG
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/20th-anniversary/laughed-jade-helm-five-years-ago-we-should-have
Blind link.
You can infer the subject from the key words "Jade Helm" in the URL.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/jade-helm-conspiracy-russian-bots/
It was batshit insane — so insane it spurred Texas' conservative
lieutenant governor and Vietnam veteran David Dewhurst to tell his
fellow conservatives in an open letter that “suspicion of our fellow
troops must stop.” (“Unfortunately,” he wrote, “some Texans have projected their legitimate concerns about the competence and
trustworthiness of President Barack Obama onto these noble warriors.
This must stop.”)
And now, according to one of America's top intel chiefs, it turns out
the whole Jade Helm 15 freakout was a ruse — a ruse spurred by a Russian online influence campaign.
Retired Air Force general Michael Hayden, who ran the National Security
Agency and then the CIA over the span of a decade, told MSNBC yesterday
that “Russian bots and the American alt-right media convinced most –
many – Texans that Obama planned to round up political dissidents, and
it got so much traction that the governor of Texas had to call up the to observe the federal exercise to keep the population calm.”
The Russian disinformation campaign was so successful, Hayden said, that
they used it as proof of concept for bigger, splashier trolling of the
U.S. electorate.
“At that point I’m figuring the Russians are saying: ‘We can go big time,’” he told MSNBC. “And at that point I think they made the
decision: we’re going to play in the electoral process.”
End quote.
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