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Facebook suspends accounts tied to Dem disinformation scheme in Alabama race (Roy Moore)
Fox News ^ | December 26, 2018 | Greg Norman

Posted on 12/25/2018 9:02:26 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Facebook suspended five accounts linked to Democratic operatives who engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” in a bid to steer votes away from Alabama Republican Roy Moore during last year’s special Senate election.

The announcement comes following a New York Times report last week that exposed the scheme, in which the users created a Facebook page and imitated conservative Alabamians who weren’t satisfied with the Republican candidate while encouraging others to write in another candidate. Moore, whose campaign ultimately was clouded by allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls while he was in his 30s, ended up losing the race to Democrat Doug Jones.

“We’ve recently removed five accounts run by multiple individuals for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook around the Alabama special election, and our investigation is ongoing,” Facebook said in a statement. “We take a strong stand against people or organizations that create networks of accounts to mislead others about who they are or what they’re doing.”

The scheme also involved creating thousands of fake Russian accounts on Twitter that began following Moore. This effort attracted attention from local and national media, falsely suggesting Russia was backing Moore’s candidacy.

“Russian invasion? Roy Moore sees spike in Twitter followers from land of Putin,” read the headline of an article at The Montgomery Advertiser, just months before the election night. Other outlets shortly picked up the story.

The Washington Post, meanwhile, pointed out that the Moore campaign accused the Jones campaign and Democratic operatives of pulling a political stunt on Twitter and alerting friends in the media.

Jones said last week that he was "outraged" over the New York Times report and wants a federal investigation over the project.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; douchejones; dougjones; facebook; fascistbook; linkedin; markzuckerberg; microsoft; moore; reidhoffman; roymoore; russia; zuckerberg
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1 posted on 12/25/2018 9:02:26 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hey, Rob Reiner, et al?

WHO’S THE THREAT to “our Democracy”?


2 posted on 12/25/2018 9:07:29 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Mods/Indies/Dems/Non-voters" JOBS or MOBS? Are CRAZY DIMS REALLY who you want BACK in POWER?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wow. A whole five accounts. Amazing. And of course the Facebook dorks assure us that they have taken care of the problem completely.

We beed a new descriptor to even come close to encompassing the depth of lies perped by progressives cess pools such as Facebook.


3 posted on 12/25/2018 9:07:49 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sacrificial lambs to “prove” Facebook isn’t just shutting down conservative sites.


4 posted on 12/25/2018 9:09:13 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If Doug Jones were honest, he would step down and call for new elections.


5 posted on 12/25/2018 9:09:30 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

yeah but when commies do it it’s justified nothing will happen..no Mueller probe into Jones finances, his associates, etc..all he has to say is IM OUTRAGED and the story is pretty much dead


6 posted on 12/25/2018 9:09:32 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
1/100th the power of the US Senate. Sometimes 1 vote can control the difference between passage and failure of significant legislation.

And some people thought that Lying bitch Washington Post reporter Stephanie McCrummen was just covering the news. No, she was deliberately dragging up lying kook bitches to smear Roy Moore *BECAUSE* a Senate seat could make or break Legislation.

Gullible people were played, and the Democrats won that seat because their media-weapon system convinced people on our side to stab Moore in the back.

7 posted on 12/25/2018 9:10:29 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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...as a courtesy, new accounts were established under different names, and VIP service offered to port over all the old data and forward incoming traffic to the old accounts. And a heartfelt thanks was given for their noble service. GoFundMe accounts were established, funded and cashed in to launder their bonus checks, and they were offered massages </sarcasm>


8 posted on 12/25/2018 9:10:32 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I see they wasted no time in getting to the bottom of it. /s


9 posted on 12/25/2018 9:11:47 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My sympathies to Judge Roy Moore, who seems like a good person. He will never get his reputation back as it was before his last campaign. I’m still surprised at how many preventable mistakes were made by Moore, his campaign advisor and even his wife.

My guess is he didn’t expect it would be so difficult. After all, everyone in the state of Alabama knew him as a Chief Justice of long standing. He became cocky and over confident. Moore didn’t expect this to become a national event, as many tight campaigns will do here lately.


10 posted on 12/25/2018 9:13:24 AM PST by lee martell (AT)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wait! That’s not “who they are!”

Oh yes they are. Relentless, ruthless and without ethics, morals or conscience.

No who is going to jail?


11 posted on 12/25/2018 9:18:23 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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It's a good thing that fb got right on this !

How many more times will the left pull these stunts and only get called out after the damage is done?

And scumbag fb can claim they are not biased because; "look!, we caught these guys and made a huuuge impact on them".

12 posted on 12/25/2018 9:21:48 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Cowboy Bob

“If Doug Jones were honest..”

Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be surprising at all to find out that Jone’s campaign was directly involved in this. Politicians. Yuck..


13 posted on 12/25/2018 9:24:54 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: NativeSon

So, did FB provide all the pertinent info, including the IP addresses and identities of those involved?


14 posted on 12/25/2018 9:27:09 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Doesn’t matter, the damage was done. Facebook will keep doing what it has been doing and when caught will make a meaningless jester.


15 posted on 12/25/2018 9:27:11 AM PST by falcon99
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To: Cowboy Bob

It the senate were ‘honest’ they’d unseat him.


16 posted on 12/25/2018 9:29:01 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Where does it say Roy Moore didn’t like the young girls when he was in his 30s? I think that was what steered people away from him, not Russian bots on Facebook.


17 posted on 12/25/2018 9:31:43 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So, the leftwad swine at fakebook are trying to create plausible deniability.


18 posted on 12/25/2018 9:38:05 AM PST by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: neverevergiveup

This likely went higher up the Democrat food chain than Jones campaign.

This was organized by someone at the national level

When do we find out it was used in several campaigns in November?


19 posted on 12/25/2018 9:46:25 AM PST by digger48
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20 posted on 12/25/2018 9:46:53 AM PST by upchuck (Q: What high crime has Trump committed? A: He won the 2016 Presidential election. ~ h/t dartuser)
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