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you don't even understand the meaning of the word liberal.
you just keep parroting your tough-guy false narrative like a champ.
Hmm..I live in Idaho..so I don't know many Libs...this is Trump country. Most of us here don't really give a hoot about the 'issues'--at least, not in the same way as folks on-line.The only damn liberal guys I see over the age of 30 is Rich ones who feel so damn guilty
They can spread their bullshit and don't care because they have a nest egg full of money to sit back on and think they did the right thing trying to tell others how to live.
You read the article? They actually did organize events in the RW. That's more than just trolling...that's direct action.Willfully Stupid and Treasonous Trumpkins willing to sell out his country for his idiotic party/leader.Oh, this is going to be interesting.
Fake news is reporting Rosenstein is going to announce these charges today.
I can't wait to see what these charges are. So now buying adds disparaging Hillaryous is now a crime. Free speech unless you're Russian.
Rosenstein stated no person contacted by Russians knew they were being contacted by Russians who were trying to influence the election.
Go pound sand, libtardos, if they had any thing on Trump they'd have announced it.
Russian Influence Operation Allegedly Ran Like a Propaganda Startup
Federal indictment describes Internet Research Agency as having deep understanding how to use Silicon Valley technology to sow discord
By Robert McMillan,
Deepa Seetharaman and
Georgia Wells
Wall Street Journal - Feb. 17, 2018
Russian Influence Operation Allegedly Ran Like a Propaganda Startup
The alleged Russian campaign to manipulate the U.S. presidential election was orchestrated by what amounted to a propaganda startup, with finance and graphics departments, performance targets and a sophisticated social-media strategy designed to gain maximum attention, according to U.S. authorities.
The federal indictment issued Friday against the Internet Research Agency describes in rich detail an institution with a deep understanding of Silicon Valley technology that allegedly manipulated tools designed to foster open discussion and turned them into weapons for causing discord.
The IRA’s opinion-influencing unit, set up in 2014 to exploit social media, had at least 80 staff by 2016, and a stated goal to spread “distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general,” the indictment says. Employees of that division crafted viral Facebook posts and widely-followed, fraudulent Twitter accounts, according to the indictment. The indictment, secured by special counsel Robert Mueller, also named two related companies and 13 Russian nationals allegedly involved in the scheme.
The Wall Street Journal and other news organizations have detailed ways the Russian efforts allegedly played out in the U.S., with hundreds of thousands of Americans following fake Facebook pages and some even participating in bogus events that the provocateurs organized.
Friday’s indictment provides the clearest portrait yet of how that disruption was allegedly coordinated. Based in St. Petersburg, Russia, IRA employees used free email accounts and online cryptocurrency exchanges, and concealed their Russian origin using virtual private networks and U.S. computer servers, the U.S. indictment says. They used stolen identities to open PayPal accounts, from which they also paid for Facebook and Instagram ads to promote their online groups, according to the indictment.
U.S. authorities say the IRA leveraged these tools to organize flash-mobs in Florida, run ads for “Miners for Trump” in Pennsylvania and to pay a U.S. resident to dress up like Hillary Clinton in a prison uniform at a West Palm Beach rally.
Operational goals were subject to internal audits. In September 2016, an employee was chastised for not criticizing Hillary Clinton enough in a Facebook group called Secured Borders and was instructed to step up the criticism in future posts, according to the indictment.
The charges show how social media, anonymity and messaging technologies that minted citizen journalists during the Arab Spring came to be turned on their head by Russian operatives to sow disinformation during the 2016 election, said John Scott Railton, a researcher with the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies.
“Back in the day if you wanted to run a coup d’état, one of the first things you needed to do was to capture the TV station, capture the radio,” he said. But in the era of Facebook and Twitter, that is no longer the case, he said.
Moscow has repeatedly denied any government effort to influence the U.S. election, and the Russian Embassy in Washington didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The IRA had a monthly budget of more than $1.25 million to conduct influence operations in various countries, the indictment says. In 2014, it created a special team called the Translator Project that fostered campaigns on social media including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and also Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube, according to the indictment.
Working in split shifts designed to make it seem like they were in U.S. time zones, project staffers allegedly posted topics on these networks that would resonate with extreme viewpoints held by Americans. They spent thousands of dollars a month promoting their messages, and used engagement metrics—quantifying the size of the audience reached and the number of likes and comments—to refine them, while developing fictitious U.S. personas into “leaders of public opinion,” according to the indictment.
By the time of the election, many of the Translator Project’s groups had snagged hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting followers, the indictment says.
IRA employees also stole the identities of legitimate organizations and real Americans to add credibility to their cause, according to the indictment. Ahead of the presidential election, they allegedly created the Twitter account @TEN_GOP, which claimed to be the Twitter account for the Tennessee Republican party.
The false account amassed more than 100,000 online followers, more than seven times the 14,000 followers the official Twitter account of the Tennessee Republican Party has attracted, according to calculations by the Journal.
In a statement posted to its website Friday, the Tennessee Republican Party said that it had filed “multiple” reports to Twitter complaining about the @TEN_GOP account. “Each report was either dismissed by Twitter or never responded to,” the party said.
Twitter didn’t comment on the @TEN_GOP account, but said the alleged Russian efforts to disrupt the election “go against everything we at Twitter believe.” As part of its preparation for the U.S. midterm elections, Twitter said it is monitoring trends and spikes in conversations for possible manipulation activity. YouTube didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Facebook reiterated its plans to expand its safety and security team to 20,000 people by the end of 2018. “We know we have more to do to prevent future attacks,” the company said.
Facebook and Twitter said they were working with a Federal Bureau of Investigation task force on election tampering.
The indictment describes in detail how the IRA allegedly organized real-world events throughout the U.S. through Facebook advertisements and direct contact with activists who supported certain causes, tactics previously reported by the Journal and other media outlets.
The IRA page “Born Patriotic” purchased Facebook ads to promote several pro-Trump rallies in Florida in August 2016 that reached 59,000 Facebook users in Florida, according to the indictment. More than 8,300 Facebook users clicked on the ads, which routed users to Being Patriotic’s page on Facebook, the indictment says.
The IRA pages covered some event costs, like travel and equipment rental, transmitting funds to activists through wire transfers and other means, the indictment says.
The alleged Russian influence campaign seemingly flew under the radar of the technology companies. Facebook, Twitter and Google didn’t launch investigations into the Russian influence campaign until after the presidency was decided.
Starting last September, Facebook and other companies publicly reported that they had identified Russian expenditures on their platforms. The indictment says that media reports that Facebook was working with Mr. Mueller’s team spooked the IRA operatives, prompting them to start destroying evidence.
“We had a slight crisis here at work: the FBI busted our activity (not a joke). So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the colleagues,” a co-conspirator emailed a relative at the time, according to the indictment. “I created all these pictures and posts, and the Americans believed that it was written by their people.”
and a sophisticated social-media strategy designed to gain maximum attention, accordingto U.S. authorities.
Translation~ they had socks on the internet is your real name abu afak?
Is it troll?
Like in yours to want people dead?they can't help themselves ,,it's in their genes***chuckles*** You shouldn't be so quick to make a fool out of yourself.Sort of like how hillary wasn’t criminal just negligent in using private emails.[
***yawn*** Well..Comrade..since you are the one defending Russian interference...read the indictments..I need list nothing...and the question of whether the law was broken is one for a jury..not for you and your partisan blather.
So, no laws? No specific violations?
Just innuendo and a steady stream of demagoguery?
I've read the indictments. I had bought into the idea that at least identity theft was involved UNTIL I read the farce of indictments. The fucking scum actually try to claim using a fake name on Facebook violates some unknown and unknowable law.
Perhaps you lack the intellect to grasp that not only are these indictments not able to stand up in any court, they aren't even meant to. Torquemada would never even attempt these against an American or someone who could be taken into custody.
Are you ok with russia meddling?
Did Democrats lose?
Then hell yes ..
.
You're a real hoot, Owl. (get it?)Well, he is innocent. Unless you think the 13 russians broke into polling places in over 3000 counties.He's earning every penny. Let's see what the President does now, besides say "Phew! I'm innocent!" Enacting those sanctions voted overwhelmingly by Congress would be a start, wouldn't they?/——/ OOOPSIE- This just in:That's why Rosenstein made a point of stating "no one wittingly colluded with Russians"
There was no need to make that statement unless he was trying to create an avenue which would give them cover.
And this:
”Rosenstein said his team has not had communication with Russia about the indictments and would go through normal channels for the extradition of those indicted. However, the U.S. government has no extradition treaty with Russia. In the past, Russia has not cooperated with these requests.”
Mueller Indicts 13 Russians Accused of Election Meddling
Leaving all those dunces who wished, hoped, yearned for an attack on Trump, with egg on their ugly kissers.
Indictment reveals Russians also organized anti-Trump rallies after election
By Alex Pappas
Published February 16, 2018
The Russians indicted for meddling in the 2016 presidential contest were also behind anti-Trump rallies after the election, prosecutors said Friday, revealing another aspect of Russia’s alleged interference as it worked to sow discord in the United States.
This move is simply Mueller justifying his paycheck.
LOL!!!!!
I am guessing that you actually think that. Any of you pathetic losers going to address what CNN did? How they interfered with the election by giving hillary the questions? Want to talk about that?
No?
Thought not.
How about the fraud perpetrated on you idiots when they claimed the democrat primaries were legit. LOL!!!!
How did those Jill Stein recounts go?
LOL!!!!!
You have nothing!! You are all pathetic hypocrites!!! You are pathetic losers!!!!
I will be waiting for the CNN interference comment from you. No, I won't. Your obfuscation is enough for me.
Thought I splained that to you ? I don't want you or them to die just sufferLike in yours to want people dead?they can't help themselves ,,it's in their genes***chuckles*** You shouldn't be so quick to make a fool out of yourself.Sort of like how hillary wasn’t criminal just negligent in using private emails.So, no laws? No specific violations?
Just innuendo and a steady stream of demagoguery?
I've read the indictments. I had bought into the idea that at least identity theft was involved UNTIL I read the farce of indictments. The fucking scum actually try to claim using a fake name on Facebook violates some unknown and unknowable law.
Perhaps you lack the intellect to grasp that not only are these indictments not able to stand up in any court, they aren't even meant to. Torquemada would never even attempt these against an American or someone who could be taken into custody.
Are you ok with russia meddling?
Did Democrats lose?
Then hell yes ..
.
you don't even understand the meaning of the word liberal.
you just keep parroting your tough-guy false narrative like a champ.
Oh I understand the real meaning of liberal, I just use the term to piss you off.
Sounds like the Trump zealots are getting a bit nervous
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Wow, this post didn't work out for you, did it?
you don't even understand the meaning of the word liberal.
you just keep parroting your tough-guy false narrative like a champ.
Oh I understand the real meaning of liberal, I just use the term to piss you off.
mission not accomplished. i'm laughing at your ignorance.
You read the article? They actually did organize events in the RW. That's more than just trolling...that's direct action.Willfully Stupid and Treasonous Trumpkins willing to sell out his country for his idiotic party/leader.Oh, this is going to be interesting.
Fake news is reporting Rosenstein is going to announce these charges today.
I can't wait to see what these charges are. So now buying adds disparaging Hillaryous is now a crime. Free speech unless you're Russian.
Rosenstein stated no person contacted by Russians knew they were being contacted by Russians who were trying to influence the election.
Go pound sand, libtardos, if they had any thing on Trump they'd have announced it.
Russian Influence Operation Allegedly Ran Like a Propaganda Startup
Federal indictment describes Internet Research Agency as having deep understanding how to use Silicon Valley technology to sow discord
By Robert McMillan,
Deepa Seetharaman and
Georgia Wells
Wall Street Journal - Feb. 17, 2018
Russian Influence Operation Allegedly Ran Like a Propaganda Startup
The alleged Russian campaign to manipulate the U.S. presidential election was orchestrated by what amounted to a propaganda startup, with finance and graphics departments, performance targets and a sophisticated social-media strategy designed to gain maximum attention, according to U.S. authorities.
The federal indictment issued Friday against the Internet Research Agency describes in rich detail an institution with a deep understanding of Silicon Valley technology that allegedly manipulated tools designed to foster open discussion and turned them into weapons for causing discord.
The IRA’s opinion-influencing unit, set up in 2014 to exploit social media, had at least 80 staff by 2016, and a stated goal to spread “distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general,” the indictment says. Employees of that division crafted viral Facebook posts and widely-followed, fraudulent Twitter accounts, according to the indictment. The indictment, secured by special counsel Robert Mueller, also named two related companies and 13 Russian nationals allegedly involved in the scheme.
The Wall Street Journal and other news organizations have detailed ways the Russian efforts allegedly played out in the U.S., with hundreds of thousands of Americans following fake Facebook pages and some even participating in bogus events that the provocateurs organized.
Friday’s indictment provides the clearest portrait yet of how that disruption was allegedly coordinated. Based in St. Petersburg, Russia, IRA employees used free email accounts and online cryptocurrency exchanges, and concealed their Russian origin using virtual private networks and U.S. computer servers, the U.S. indictment says. They used stolen identities to open PayPal accounts, from which they also paid for Facebook and Instagram ads to promote their online groups, according to the indictment.
U.S. authorities say the IRA leveraged these tools to organize flash-mobs in Florida, run ads for “Miners for Trump” in Pennsylvania and to pay a U.S. resident to dress up like Hillary Clinton in a prison uniform at a West Palm Beach rally.
Operational goals were subject to internal audits. In September 2016, an employee was chastised for not criticizing Hillary Clinton enough in a Facebook group called Secured Borders and was instructed to step up the criticism in future posts, according to the indictment.
The charges show how social media, anonymity and messaging technologies that minted citizen journalists during the Arab Spring came to be turned on their head by Russian operatives to sow disinformation during the 2016 election, said John Scott Railton, a researcher with the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies.
“Back in the day if you wanted to run a coup d’état, one of the first things you needed to do was to capture the TV station, capture the radio,” he said. But in the era of Facebook and Twitter, that is no longer the case, he said.
Moscow has repeatedly denied any government effort to influence the U.S. election, and the Russian Embassy in Washington didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The IRA had a monthly budget of more than $1.25 million to conduct influence operations in various countries, the indictment says. In 2014, it created a special team called the Translator Project that fostered campaigns on social media including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and also Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube, according to the indictment.
Working in split shifts designed to make it seem like they were in U.S. time zones, project staffers allegedly posted topics on these networks that would resonate with extreme viewpoints held by Americans. They spent thousands of dollars a month promoting their messages, and used engagement metrics—quantifying the size of the audience reached and the number of likes and comments—to refine them, while developing fictitious U.S. personas into “leaders of public opinion,” according to the indictment.
By the time of the election, many of the Translator Project’s groups had snagged hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting followers, the indictment says.
IRA employees also stole the identities of legitimate organizations and real Americans to add credibility to their cause, according to the indictment. Ahead of the presidential election, they allegedly created the Twitter account @TEN_GOP, which claimed to be the Twitter account for the Tennessee Republican party.
The false account amassed more than 100,000 online followers, more than seven times the 14,000 followers the official Twitter account of the Tennessee Republican Party has attracted, according to calculations by the Journal.
In a statement posted to its website Friday, the Tennessee Republican Party said that it had filed “multiple” reports to Twitter complaining about the @TEN_GOP account. “Each report was either dismissed by Twitter or never responded to,” the party said.
Twitter didn’t comment on the @TEN_GOP account, but said the alleged Russian efforts to disrupt the election “go against everything we at Twitter believe.” As part of its preparation for the U.S. midterm elections, Twitter said it is monitoring trends and spikes in conversations for possible manipulation activity. YouTube didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Facebook reiterated its plans to expand its safety and security team to 20,000 people by the end of 2018. “We know we have more to do to prevent future attacks,” the company said.
Facebook and Twitter said they were working with a Federal Bureau of Investigation task force on election tampering.
The indictment describes in detail how the IRA allegedly organized real-world events throughout the U.S. through Facebook advertisements and direct contact with activists who supported certain causes, tactics previously reported by the Journal and other media outlets.
The IRA page “Born Patriotic” purchased Facebook ads to promote several pro-Trump rallies in Florida in August 2016 that reached 59,000 Facebook users in Florida, according to the indictment. More than 8,300 Facebook users clicked on the ads, which routed users to Being Patriotic’s page on Facebook, the indictment says.
The IRA pages covered some event costs, like travel and equipment rental, transmitting funds to activists through wire transfers and other means, the indictment says.
The alleged Russian influence campaign seemingly flew under the radar of the technology companies. Facebook, Twitter and Google didn’t launch investigations into the Russian influence campaign until after the presidency was decided.
Starting last September, Facebook and other companies publicly reported that they had identified Russian expenditures on their platforms. The indictment says that media reports that Facebook was working with Mr. Mueller’s team spooked the IRA operatives, prompting them to start destroying evidence.
“We had a slight crisis here at work: the FBI busted our activity (not a joke). So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the colleagues,” a co-conspirator emailed a relative at the time, according to the indictment. “I created all these pictures and posts, and the Americans believed that it was written by their people.”
and a sophisticated social-media strategy designed to gain maximum attention, accordingto U.S. authorities.
Translation~ they had socks on the internet is your real name abu afak?
Is it troll?
You're a real hoot, Owl. (get it?)Well, he is innocent. Unless you think the 13 russians broke into polling places in over 3000 counties.He's earning every penny. Let's see what the President does now, besides say "Phew! I'm innocent!" Enacting those sanctions voted overwhelmingly by Congress would be a start, wouldn't they?/——/ OOOPSIE- This just in:And this:
”Rosenstein said his team has not had communication with Russia about the indictments and would go through normal channels for the extradition of those indicted. However, the U.S. government has no extradition treaty with Russia. In the past, Russia has not cooperated with these requests.”
Mueller Indicts 13 Russians Accused of Election Meddling
Leaving all those dunces who wished, hoped, yearned for an attack on Trump, with egg on their ugly kissers.
Indictment reveals Russians also organized anti-Trump rallies after election
By Alex Pappas
Published February 16, 2018
The Russians indicted for meddling in the 2016 presidential contest were also behind anti-Trump rallies after the election, prosecutors said Friday, revealing another aspect of Russia’s alleged interference as it worked to sow discord in the United States.
This move is simply Mueller justifying his paycheck.
LOL!!!!!
I am guessing that you actually think that. Any of you pathetic losers going to address what CNN did? How they interfered with the election by giving hillary the questions? Want to talk about that?
No?
Thought not.
How about the fraud perpetrated on you idiots when they claimed the democrat primaries were legit. LOL!!!!
How did those Jill Stein recounts go?
LOL!!!!!
You have nothing!! You are all pathetic hypocrites!!! You are pathetic losers!!!!
I will be waiting for the CNN interference comment from you. No, I won't. Your obfuscation is enough for me.
I wasn't saying any of that. At all. The indictments say he and his team did nothing to help these Russian spies. I would just like to see the President enact the sanctions that have been voted on by Congress. I heard yesterday that "they're working on it." I hope that's true.
So it's all better because now it's suffer in front of a firing squad?Thought I splained that to you ? I don't want you or them to die just sufferLike in yours to want people dead?they can't help themselves ,,it's in their genes***chuckles*** You shouldn't be so quick to make a fool out of yourself.Sort of like how hillary wasn’t criminal just negligent in using private emails.
Are you ok with russia meddling?
Did Democrats lose?
Then hell yes ..
.
But it is..
Throw it up a wall so many times it sticks little one
LOL Are you going all bripat on me??So it's all better because now it's suffer in front of a firing squad?Thought I splained that to you ? I don't want you or them to die just sufferLike in yours to want people dead?they can't help themselves ,,it's in their genes***chuckles*** You shouldn't be so quick to make a fool out of yourself.Did Democrats lose?
Then hell yes ..
.
"oh don't kill them just shoot fingers off!"
Fucked up.
I do not want to hurt the average Russian..I want those responsible for this to be tried in a US court. I want the sanctions voted on by the Congress and signed into law by Trump enacted. They are directed at those responsible as well. I want Trump to condemn Putin and Russia in the harshest terms. I want Russia put on notice. I want people to understand that much of the animosity Americans feel towards each other was stoked by the Russians. We have been played...I'm pissed about it. I can't understand why you're not.You read the article? They actually did organize events in the RW. That's more than just trolling...that's direct action.Willfully Stupid and Treasonous Trumpkins willing to sell out his country for his idiotic party/leader.Oh, this is going to be interesting.
Fake news is reporting Rosenstein is going to announce these charges today.
I can't wait to see what these charges are. So now buying adds disparaging Hillaryous is now a crime. Free speech unless you're Russian.
Rosenstein stated no person contacted by Russians knew they were being contacted by Russians who were trying to influence the election.
Go pound sand, libtardos, if they had any thing on Trump they'd have announced it.
Russian Influence Operation Allegedly Ran Like a Propaganda Startup
Federal indictment describes Internet Research Agency as having deep understanding how to use Silicon Valley technology to sow discord
By Robert McMillan,
Deepa Seetharaman and
Georgia Wells
Wall Street Journal - Feb. 17, 2018
Russian Influence Operation Allegedly Ran Like a Propaganda Startup
The alleged Russian campaign to manipulate the U.S. presidential election was orchestrated by what amounted to a propaganda startup, with finance and graphics departments, performance targets and a sophisticated social-media strategy designed to gain maximum attention, according to U.S. authorities.
The federal indictment issued Friday against the Internet Research Agency describes in rich detail an institution with a deep understanding of Silicon Valley technology that allegedly manipulated tools designed to foster open discussion and turned them into weapons for causing discord.
The IRA’s opinion-influencing unit, set up in 2014 to exploit social media, had at least 80 staff by 2016, and a stated goal to spread “distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general,” the indictment says. Employees of that division crafted viral Facebook posts and widely-followed, fraudulent Twitter accounts, according to the indictment. The indictment, secured by special counsel Robert Mueller, also named two related companies and 13 Russian nationals allegedly involved in the scheme.
The Wall Street Journal and other news organizations have detailed ways the Russian efforts allegedly played out in the U.S., with hundreds of thousands of Americans following fake Facebook pages and some even participating in bogus events that the provocateurs organized.
Friday’s indictment provides the clearest portrait yet of how that disruption was allegedly coordinated. Based in St. Petersburg, Russia, IRA employees used free email accounts and online cryptocurrency exchanges, and concealed their Russian origin using virtual private networks and U.S. computer servers, the U.S. indictment says. They used stolen identities to open PayPal accounts, from which they also paid for Facebook and Instagram ads to promote their online groups, according to the indictment.
U.S. authorities say the IRA leveraged these tools to organize flash-mobs in Florida, run ads for “Miners for Trump” in Pennsylvania and to pay a U.S. resident to dress up like Hillary Clinton in a prison uniform at a West Palm Beach rally.
Operational goals were subject to internal audits. In September 2016, an employee was chastised for not criticizing Hillary Clinton enough in a Facebook group called Secured Borders and was instructed to step up the criticism in future posts, according to the indictment.
The charges show how social media, anonymity and messaging technologies that minted citizen journalists during the Arab Spring came to be turned on their head by Russian operatives to sow disinformation during the 2016 election, said John Scott Railton, a researcher with the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies.
“Back in the day if you wanted to run a coup d’état, one of the first things you needed to do was to capture the TV station, capture the radio,” he said. But in the era of Facebook and Twitter, that is no longer the case, he said.
Moscow has repeatedly denied any government effort to influence the U.S. election, and the Russian Embassy in Washington didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The IRA had a monthly budget of more than $1.25 million to conduct influence operations in various countries, the indictment says. In 2014, it created a special team called the Translator Project that fostered campaigns on social media including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and also Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube, according to the indictment.
Working in split shifts designed to make it seem like they were in U.S. time zones, project staffers allegedly posted topics on these networks that would resonate with extreme viewpoints held by Americans. They spent thousands of dollars a month promoting their messages, and used engagement metrics—quantifying the size of the audience reached and the number of likes and comments—to refine them, while developing fictitious U.S. personas into “leaders of public opinion,” according to the indictment.
By the time of the election, many of the Translator Project’s groups had snagged hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting followers, the indictment says.
IRA employees also stole the identities of legitimate organizations and real Americans to add credibility to their cause, according to the indictment. Ahead of the presidential election, they allegedly created the Twitter account @TEN_GOP, which claimed to be the Twitter account for the Tennessee Republican party.
The false account amassed more than 100,000 online followers, more than seven times the 14,000 followers the official Twitter account of the Tennessee Republican Party has attracted, according to calculations by the Journal.
In a statement posted to its website Friday, the Tennessee Republican Party said that it had filed “multiple” reports to Twitter complaining about the @TEN_GOP account. “Each report was either dismissed by Twitter or never responded to,” the party said.
Twitter didn’t comment on the @TEN_GOP account, but said the alleged Russian efforts to disrupt the election “go against everything we at Twitter believe.” As part of its preparation for the U.S. midterm elections, Twitter said it is monitoring trends and spikes in conversations for possible manipulation activity. YouTube didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Facebook reiterated its plans to expand its safety and security team to 20,000 people by the end of 2018. “We know we have more to do to prevent future attacks,” the company said.
Facebook and Twitter said they were working with a Federal Bureau of Investigation task force on election tampering.
The indictment describes in detail how the IRA allegedly organized real-world events throughout the U.S. through Facebook advertisements and direct contact with activists who supported certain causes, tactics previously reported by the Journal and other media outlets.
The IRA page “Born Patriotic” purchased Facebook ads to promote several pro-Trump rallies in Florida in August 2016 that reached 59,000 Facebook users in Florida, according to the indictment. More than 8,300 Facebook users clicked on the ads, which routed users to Being Patriotic’s page on Facebook, the indictment says.
The IRA pages covered some event costs, like travel and equipment rental, transmitting funds to activists through wire transfers and other means, the indictment says.
The alleged Russian influence campaign seemingly flew under the radar of the technology companies. Facebook, Twitter and Google didn’t launch investigations into the Russian influence campaign until after the presidency was decided.
Starting last September, Facebook and other companies publicly reported that they had identified Russian expenditures on their platforms. The indictment says that media reports that Facebook was working with Mr. Mueller’s team spooked the IRA operatives, prompting them to start destroying evidence.
“We had a slight crisis here at work: the FBI busted our activity (not a joke). So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the colleagues,” a co-conspirator emailed a relative at the time, according to the indictment. “I created all these pictures and posts, and the Americans believed that it was written by their people.”
and a sophisticated social-media strategy designed to gain maximum attention, accordingto U.S. authorities.
Translation~ they had socks on the internet is your real name abu afak?
Is it troll?
You're a real hoot, Owl. (get it?)Well, he is innocent. Unless you think the 13 russians broke into polling places in over 3000 counties.He's earning every penny. Let's see what the President does now, besides say "Phew! I'm innocent!" Enacting those sanctions voted overwhelmingly by Congress would be a start, wouldn't they?/——/ OOOPSIE- This just in:
Indictment reveals Russians also organized anti-Trump rallies after election
By Alex Pappas
Published February 16, 2018
The Russians indicted for meddling in the 2016 presidential contest were also behind anti-Trump rallies after the election, prosecutors said Friday, revealing another aspect of Russia’s alleged interference as it worked to sow discord in the United States.
This move is simply Mueller justifying his paycheck.
LOL!!!!!
I am guessing that you actually think that. Any of you pathetic losers going to address what CNN did? How they interfered with the election by giving hillary the questions? Want to talk about that?
No?
Thought not.
How about the fraud perpetrated on you idiots when they claimed the democrat primaries were legit. LOL!!!!
How did those Jill Stein recounts go?
LOL!!!!!
You have nothing!! You are all pathetic hypocrites!!! You are pathetic losers!!!!
I will be waiting for the CNN interference comment from you. No, I won't. Your obfuscation is enough for me.
I wasn't saying any of that. At all. The indictments say he and his team did nothing to help these Russian spies. I would just like to see the President enact the sanctions that have been voted on by Congress. I heard yesterday that "they're working on it." I hope that's true.
Why do you want to hurt the average Russian , for what a mouse game?
NO suffer with the f-ed up policies of trump you support The policies our young will be paying the price forSo it's all better because now it's suffer in front of a firing squad?Thought I splained that to you ? I don't want you or them to die just sufferLike in yours to want people dead?they can't help themselves ,,it's in their genes***chuckles*** You shouldn't be so quick to make a fool out of yourself.Did Democrats lose?
Then hell yes ..
.
"oh don't kill them just shoot fingers off!"
Fucked up.
this pos even makes the school shootings about him a fn psychopathNO suffer with the f-ed up policies of trump you support The policies our young will be paying the price forSo it's all better because now it's suffer in front of a firing squad?Thought I splained that to you ? I don't want you or them to die just sufferLike in yours to want people dead?they can't help themselves ,,it's in their genes***chuckles*** You shouldn't be so quick to make a fool out of yourself.
"oh don't kill them just shoot fingers off!"
Fucked up.
Are any of those indicted IN the United States? If not, this is a close relative to screaming at the sky.
But it is..
Throw it up a wall so many times it sticks little one
"Screw that any guy over the age of 30 that is a liberal... a clown..."
methinks the projecting clown doth protest too much!
Are any of those indicted IN the United States? If not, this is a close relative to screaming at the sky.
Not really. Those Russians will not be able to leave Russia for fear of arrest.
