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Anonymous users are dominating right-wing discussions online. They also spread false information
AP ^ | 04 06 2024 | ALI SWENSON and MELISSA GOLDIN

Posted on 04/06/2024 8:44:58 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

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To: yesthatjallen

And you thought you were rid of me!

21 posted on 04/06/2024 10:09:06 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: rexthecat
Aren’t 99% of Internet comments anonymous??

Weren't the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers also anonymous? It is in the American tradition.

22 posted on 04/06/2024 10:31:15 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Also driving wages down, swamping welfare roles, and voting on behalf of dead people still on the voting roles, smuggling dope, either trafficking sex slaves or being sex slaves, etc., etc., etc.


23 posted on 04/06/2024 11:00:50 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: yesthatjallen
It's not about internet comments, per se. It's about Musk and X specifically. Leftists no longer control Twitter and it's an election year. The narrative going forward is Musk is dangerous and needs to be put under control.

I think you nailed it there. Twitter was a major player in the 2020 fraud, and they want that to happen again. Can't do it with Musk in control.

24 posted on 04/06/2024 11:03:00 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: All

Yeah sure whatever.


25 posted on 04/07/2024 12:08:19 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (A conspiracy theory is usually a fact that a leftist cannot endorse)
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To: yesthatjallen

Story is obviously an attempt to smear Musk and X/Twitter. Libs can’t stand not being able to control the narrative. The NYT has spent vast resources attacking sites like ‘Libs Of Tik-Tok’. The NYT even published a long story on the dangers of ‘The Babylon Bee’ a couple of years back.

Specifically to this story.

Quoting Texas Sec. Of State Jane Nelson from an article 4 days ago:

“It is totally inaccurate that 1.2 million voters have registered to vote in Texas without a photo ID this year. The truth is our voter rolls have increased by 57,711 voters since the beginning of 2024. This is less than the number of people registered in the same timeframe in 2022 (about 65,000) and in 2020 (about 104,000).”

Ms. Nelson also points out that while Federal law allows voters to register with just a SSN, Texas law requires valid ID to actually vote.

Maybe some enterprising Freeper can look at Texas voter registration numbers. There should be a way to verify the increase in voter registration numbers in TX. I may do this later on today if I get the time.

Story goes on to say the data on the 1.2 million is an increase in voter registration verification requests, not actual voter registrations, and comes from the Biden Social Security Administration. Maybe the NYT can ask how the SSA is spending taxpayer money and why does the SSA have time to produce garbage data.

https://www.sos.texas.gov/about/newsreleases/2024/040324.shtml


26 posted on 04/07/2024 12:11:01 AM PDT by Roadrunner383 (m)
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To: Deaf Smith

Not just that. Any time you apply for ANY government funded benefit (e.g., SNAP, WICs, EITC, AFDC, TANF, Section 8) somewhere in the process is your easy-ask “register to vote” as an included step.


27 posted on 04/07/2024 12:13:39 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: TigersEye

[The AP talking about false information is hilarious.]

Indeed it is. The sad part is not many people realize just how slanted “the news media” truly are.


28 posted on 04/07/2024 1:55:06 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Venkman
[outlaw anonymity]

Funny you should mention that, because........(for those who have not figured her out just yet - I'm sure you're wise to her)

Nikki Haley HATES FREE SPEECH, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.




29 posted on 04/07/2024 1:58:27 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: yesthatjallen

Wowza...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/goldinmelissa

She used to work for NewsGuard.

Nuff said, eh...


30 posted on 04/07/2024 3:07:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

Love this bit...

https://muckrack.com/aliswenson/articles

“Reporter @AP covering elections, misinformation, disinformation and threats to democracy.”

Okay, a presstitute.


31 posted on 04/07/2024 3:09:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Venkman

“The deep state wants to outlaw anonymity. Anonymity is the only way to criticize the regime and stay out of prison.”

Bingo...


32 posted on 04/07/2024 3:18:43 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: magooey; null and void; Diogenesis; Red Badger; Travis McGee

[Weren’t the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers also anonymous? It is in the American tradition.]

Oh, that pesky history.

It must be rewritten immediately - ‘1984’ style

Choco rations going up 25 grams next week.

Double-plus good, eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciD6G_bT1Ps


33 posted on 04/07/2024 3:24:37 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: mewzilla

Folks, one of the authors used to work for Newsguard.

Bet AP has never disclosed that to readers...


34 posted on 04/07/2024 3:39:48 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Who’s to say the commenter isn’t correct and it isn’t the state officials pushing the misinformation?


35 posted on 04/07/2024 3:46:11 AM PDT by circlecity
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Actual voter registrations during the time period cited were much lower than the numbers being shared online.

Clever response. They're only disputing the numbers, not the claim that the registrants may be illegals.

36 posted on 04/07/2024 3:48:30 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: yesthatjallen
[They also spread false information]




37 posted on 04/07/2024 3:51:38 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: yesthatjallen

Note to the two dirty scumbag propagandist ALI SWENSON and MELISSA GOLDIN:

The AP (your employer) accepts millions of dollars in bribe money from the Quisling Puppet Biden regime to spread deliberate fake news. The AssPress is an extreme far left pro-communist organization. They print lies, lies, lies, to help promote the filthy left wing agenda. /spit


38 posted on 04/07/2024 4:21:19 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: yesthatjallen

As if there were not hundreds of Pro Russian trolls - some of whom even admit they are Russian - on this site, dutifully spewing and posting disinformation, misinformation right from the FSB offices in St Petersburg, Russia.


39 posted on 04/07/2024 4:22:41 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Islander7

Worse, federal court orders have facilitated the Democrats in their efforts to get legal and illegal immigrants registered as voters so they can vote for Biden. Again and again, on the rare occasions when caught and prosecuted, the common refrain of such non-citizen illegal voters is that election officials did not effectively warn them that they could not legally register and vote if they were not citizens.


40 posted on 04/07/2024 4:30:31 AM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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