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In reply to the discussion: Does anyone think the Russians are all over social media but not on Democratic Underground? [View all]NCLefty
(3,678 posts)62. Russians were posting in DEM circles, backing all sides on contentious issues to make us hate each
more and to depress Democratic turnout as much as possible.
Why should any of us believe they stopped? Their boy won and then got his crony to blunt the Mueller report's impact. No one has been convicted of hacking, just lying to the FBI. The Russian hackers we indicted will never come here. Russia has every reason to keep doing this as long as Donald Trump is president.
They were trying to get Stein people and Bernie people to all hate Hillary even more, etc. This is just a sample. There was much more:
They focused their efforts on pages that touched American nerves, with names like Guns4Life, Pray for Police, Stop All Invaders, South United and mimicking Mr. Trump America First.
Even pages that seemed nominally hostile to him often worked in his favor: Woke Blacks critiqued Mrs. Clinton for alleged hostility to African-Americans; United Muslims of America showed her with a woman in a head scarf and a slogan Support Hillary, Save American Muslims that seemed aimed at generating a backlash.
. . .
The Russian companys formula was simple: tap into a simmering strain of opinion in the United States and pour on the fuel.
Consider the Texas protest. After the Russians put up the Stop Islamization Facebook post, several dozen like-minded Texans added their own incendiary comments. Allah Sucks, wrote one, adding a threat to kill any Muslim who tried to visit him. Another wrote of the Islamic center, Need to Blow this place up.
A dozen yelling white supremacists turned out for the protest, at least two of them with assault rifles and a third with a pistol. Others held Confederate flags and a White Lives Matter banner.
Houston police managed to keep them away from a much larger crowd of counterprotesters some of whom had responded to a second Russian Facebook call. In a blatant attempt to create a confrontation, another Internet Research Agency page, this one called United Muslims of America, had asked people to rally at exactly the same time and place to Save Islamic Knowledge.
Even pages that seemed nominally hostile to him often worked in his favor: Woke Blacks critiqued Mrs. Clinton for alleged hostility to African-Americans; United Muslims of America showed her with a woman in a head scarf and a slogan Support Hillary, Save American Muslims that seemed aimed at generating a backlash.
. . .
The Russian companys formula was simple: tap into a simmering strain of opinion in the United States and pour on the fuel.
Consider the Texas protest. After the Russians put up the Stop Islamization Facebook post, several dozen like-minded Texans added their own incendiary comments. Allah Sucks, wrote one, adding a threat to kill any Muslim who tried to visit him. Another wrote of the Islamic center, Need to Blow this place up.
A dozen yelling white supremacists turned out for the protest, at least two of them with assault rifles and a third with a pistol. Others held Confederate flags and a White Lives Matter banner.
Houston police managed to keep them away from a much larger crowd of counterprotesters some of whom had responded to a second Russian Facebook call. In a blatant attempt to create a confrontation, another Internet Research Agency page, this one called United Muslims of America, had asked people to rally at exactly the same time and place to Save Islamic Knowledge.
"The Plot to Subvert an Election"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/20/us/politics/russia-interference-election-trump-clinton.html
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Does anyone think the Russians are all over social media but not on Democratic Underground? [View all]
StarfishSaver
Oct 2019
OP
nope... I'm certain there are those here who are Russians working for Putin. - n/t
lapfog_1
Oct 2019
#3
Our Admins are pros and quite good at what they do. But against the malice of entities that want ...
Hekate
Oct 2019
#60
Listen to the tale, Grasshopper. This is a professionally-run site with lots of safeguards, and...
Hekate
Oct 2019
#36
more than a few times, things appear on DU then magically on a major media outlet
Hermit-The-Prog
Oct 2019
#45
I'm not one to easily buy into CT or panic-mongering such, but the Russians do monitor dem websites.
Decoy of Fenris
Oct 2019
#59
I think that was like the final depression that night. Needed a place to find solace
demtenjeep
Oct 2019
#15
Good to put a name to the activity. We always figured Agent Mike was on the job during ...
Hekate
Oct 2019
#31
Maddow warns Russia is interfering in the 2020 election in 'exactly the same way' as they did in 201
Gothmog
Oct 2019
#39
Well, well. You joined up just after the election of 2016 and before the inauguration.
Hekate
Oct 2019
#61
Russians were posting in DEM circles, backing all sides on contentious issues to make us hate each
NCLefty
Oct 2019
#62
I don't think that was an unreasonable position under the circumstance in play then
StarfishSaver
Oct 2019
#86
I think the obvious continued attacks are Repube trolls here...it is the subtle
cbdo2007
Oct 2019
#91