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The “They” is?
Russian Trolls and Bots shaping the American “Social Media landscape”.
They're Back -- or more to the point, They never really left:
Putin’s Trolls Used the Texas Church Massacre to Sow More Chaos
How the Kremlin keeps exploiting Twitter to attack America.
by Denise Clifton, motherjones.com — Nov. 9, 2017
False information inundated social media after Sunday’s mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and Russian trolls were in the thick of it.
Conspiracy theorists like Mike Cernovich led the way, falsely branding shooter Devin Patrick Kelly as a member of the far-left antifa movement, and the Russian media outlet RT America had the lie posted on Facebook for five hours, according to BuzzFeed. The hashtags #antifa, #sutherlandsprings and #texas were three of the top 10 recorded over the weekend by Hamilton 68, a nonpartisan research project that tracks Russian influencers on Twitter in real time.
Much of last week’s congressional hearings focused on Russia’s interference operations on Facebook during the 2016 election, when Kremlin-planted ads and fraudulent posts reached upwards of 130 million users. But disinformation attacks by Putin’s trolls seeking to sow chaos in American politics have continued apace ever since—and Twitter continues to provide an optimal platform for them, according to researchers.
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Perhaps since Russian “Dark-Money” has been buying up major shares of Twitter and Facebook, they think now that they can have the ‘run of the place’ — you know, dictate the trending hashtag topics, and fuel the fires of American discontent …
Russia Is Continuing Its Cyberattack on America Right Now
Meanwhile, Trump keeps calling the Russia investigation “a total fabrication.”
by Bill Buzenberg, motherjones.com — Aug. 9, 2017
[...] Russian-linked Twitter accounts had for days been piling onto a growing campaign by the so-called alt-right to purge Trump’s national security adviser [Gen. H.R. McMaster] — who is viewed by some of the president’s base as a “globalist tool” and a threat to their hardline nationalist agenda.
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Some of Russia’s digital efforts to continue to disrupt and influence US politics are now more in the open, thanks to “Hamilton 68,” a new dashboard tracing Russian-linked information warfare on Twitter. A project of the nonpartisan Alliance for Securing Democracy, Hamilton tracks 600 accounts in real time, analyzing “a network of accounts linked to and participating in Russian influence campaigns,” according to the site.
They're Back — and they show no interest in leaving our Discussion-space, anytime soon.
So fight back — bookmark the Hamilton 68 Dashboard, from The Alliance for Securing Democracy.
Know in real time, who and what are the “Tools of Putin” — and who or what are just the “very fine” Followers of Bannon, trying to dismantle our Government piece by piece.
Speaking of “tools” ...
Kremlin says Donald Trump will meet Vladimir Putin 'one way or another', contradicting White House, from Telegraph.co.uk — 11-10-2017
Well IF … the Boss says this Meeting is “mandatory” — you know, that means they’d better show up, or else risk losing their jobs …
( I wonder how Putin’s Bots will hashtag THIS one?
#MeetTheBoss #TrumpPutinTaskOrders #StillNoCollusion, #TrumpProjectPhaseTwo
…. Hmmm? )