Posted on 12/21/2018 7:31:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
While the debate rages on over how much Russia really influenced the results of the 2016 presidential elections, one detail put the entire controversy in perspective: Democratic operatives spent an identical amount of money on their project to create a Russian bot “false flag” campaign during the Alabama 2017 special election.
Multiple reports detailed the Russian government-backed Internet Research Agency spent up to $100,000 on Facebook advertisements throughout their entire disinformation operation. As The Daily Caller News Foundation reported Wednesday, billionaire-backed Democrats “created more than a thousand Russian-language accounts that followed [Roy] Moore’s Twitter account overnight.”
The group of Democrats behind the “elaborate ‘false flag’ operation,” as described in an internal report obtained by The New York Times, also created fake conservative Facebook accounts for the purpose of convincing voters not to support Republican candidate Roy Moore. (RELATED: Democrats Ran Russian Bot ‘False Flag’ Operation In Alabama — And Media Fell For It)
The cost of the effort totaled $100,000 — the identical amount Facebook says the Russian IRA spent during the last presidential election.
Much of Russia’s activity during the 2016 campaign, however, cost little-to-nothing. According to analyses of the IRA’s activity, many of the Facebook posts created by the organization were seen by millions of Americans without a single dollar spent.
The $100,000 spent by the Russian IRA was just a small fraction of the nearly $40 billion in ad revenue Facebook received in 2017.
Still, that $100,000 spent during the Alabama special election caught the attention of numerous reporters and was the source of several stories about the strange behavior on social media. As Mother Jones published in 2017, “Russian Propagandists Are Pushing for Roy Moore to Win.”
Reporters from newspapers like The Washington Post mocked Moore’s assertion that Democrats were behind the fake accounts following him...
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did these billionaires file their campaign expenses with the FEC and disclose their identity?
>>Still, that $100,000 spent during the Alabama special election caught the attention of numerous reporters and was the source of several stories about the strange behavior on social media. As Mother Jones published in 2017, “Russian Propagandists Are Pushing for Roy Moore to Win.”
Shades of the silent coup against Trump.
Create a bullstalin document, create an echo chamber about the “news”, then report it AS news and “genuine”.
“’people’ online are talking about a write-in campaign to challenge Moore...”
These are the real traitors.
The four part sum of any member of the DNC is liar, lawless, murderer, thug.
This is true of DNC voters, representatives, and appointments.
Demonic-Rats worse than RUSSIANS!
Well, at least we know exactly how much it costs...
bttt
IS what the Democrats did LEGAL or Not? That is the only real prosecutable question. If they did, somebody charge them with election interference/tampering and possibly election fraud.
If anyone knows, please post it here at FR.
We won’t know if it’s legal or not until the Mueller witch hunt plays out. That whole endeavor is based upon the hither-to unknown crime of “fraud against the United States”.
Thanks E. Pluribus Unum.
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