MSM Silent After Google Election Meddling Bombshell; Video Scrubbed From YouTube

Well, since the liberal media does the same thing, they aren’t likely to denounce it and it is embarrassing to publicly praise trampling the 1st Amendment when that is supposed to be your business.

In socialist states, what the public hears and can say is strictly controlled.

October 21, 2020 – Facebook: Russian trolls are back. And they’re here to meddle with 2020

People linked to the Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin-backed troll group indicted by the United States for its alleged interference in the 2016 US presidential election, are laying the groundwork to do the same in 2020, new information released by Facebook on Monday suggests.

Profiles originating in Russia had since the beginning of this year been building a network of accounts on Instagram designed to look like groups in swing states, the company said. Instagram is owned by Facebook (FB).

Although the accounts posed as Americans from all sides of the political spectrum, many were united in their opposition to the candidacy of former Vice President Joe Biden, according to Graphika, a social media investigations company that Facebook asked to analyze the accounts. The Russian trolls who used social media to interfere in the 2016 election employed a similar tactic, going after Hillary Clinton from the right and also trying to spread a perception on the left that Clinton was not liberal enough and that liberals and African Americans especially shouldn’t bother voting for her.

The accounts Facebook revealed Monday, 50 of which were on Instagram and one of which was on Facebook, were designed to look like they were advocating on a broad range of issues across American life.

Accounts with usernames like @black.queen.chloe and @michigan_black_community_ looked like they were run by black activists. There were also pro and anti-Trump accounts, and accounts posing as feminists, LGBTQ rights advocates, and environmentalists. Other account names included @stop.trump2020, @bernie.2020__, @iowa.patriot, and @feminist_agenda_, according to Graphika.

Facebook said the accounts combined had more than 250,000 followers, more than half of which were based in the U.S. Facebook did not disclose how many of those followers were real and how many might have been fake or bot accounts designed to make the main accounts look more legitimate. Facebook says it has removed the accounts.

“It looked like there was a systematic focus on attacking Biden from both sides,” Graphika director of investigations Ben Nimmo, who analyzed the accounts, told CNN Business.

Nimmo also observed attacks on other candidates, including Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, but said those attacks seemed more the result of “character building” in which the accounts were sharing content to bolster their respective personas — for instance, liberal-looking accounts attacked Trump, while conservative-looking accounts posted negative content about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

“Among the accounts focused on black activism, there was strong support for Bernie Sanders along with a moderate amount of content opposing Kamala Harris,” Graphika said in its analysis. “Education reform and student debt relief were two of the most commonly mentioned reasons for supporting Sanders, while Harris’s record as a California DA was mentioned as a reason to oppose her candidacy. Mixed in with these was a small amount of content attacking Joe Biden, primarily due to gaffes related to his previous handling of racial issues.”

Nimmo said the accounts sent just under 75,000 posts, the majority of which were not directly related to the 2020 election, but to broader political and social issues in the US.

Facebook said Monday those behind the operation had taken steps to conceal their identities and locations. The company did not publicly say how it had determined the accounts were linked to the Internet Research Agency but said it had shared details with law enforcement.

The campaign mostly recycled existing memes and posts from real American news organizations and political groups.

“This wasn’t Russians targeting Americans with Russian content, this was Russians targeting Americans with American content,” Nimmo said.
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@Deplorable Me, #4:

Democrats have been caught running bot operations and setting them up to appear to be run by Russians.

Actually, Jonathon Morgan, CEO of the social media research firm New Knowledge, set up a small bot operation based on the Russian model as an experiment to study their methodology’s effectiveness. The reason you know about it is because Morgan then went public by telling the Washington Post what had been done.

Morgan clearly demonstrated the very real vulnerability of our election process to carefully targeted social media manipulation. If he helped to knock Roy Moore off his silly little horse in the process, consider that collateral damage.

In spite of the demonstration, and in spite of the same conclusions by our nation’s own intelligence community and House and Senate investigations, people still refuse to acknowledge that Russian election meddling had anything at all to do with the outcome of the 2016 election. We’re being left open for the same sort of attack in 2020.

@Deplorable Me, #6:

The reason we know is he got caught.

His test Facebook page was suspended by Facebook along with a number of other pages. Facebook didn’t reveal the page owners’ names. Morgan himself revealed that his was among them, and explained what he had done in detail. What he said is summarized in the article below. His firm also produced an in depth report on the Russian election meddling operation which was presented to the U.S. Senate, a link to which is provided in the article.

December 23, 2018 – Jonathon Morgan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

The right, of course, is trying to stand the story on its head as part of their effort to discredit the idea that Russian election meddling even occurred. This has become a standard disinformation tactic that they are using constantly in an effort to keep afloat the Trump administration, which is taking on water faster than their media tools can bail it out. The sooner it goes under, the better.

Today Trump has been making references to the “phony emoluments clause”. There’s nothing the least bit phony about it. It can be found in Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 8 of the U.S. Constitution.