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NYT: Rick Gates sought plans to use fake online identities in Trump's 2016 campaign
The Hill ^ | 10/08/18 | MICHAEL BURKE

Posted on 10/08/2018 3:45:09 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

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1 posted on 10/08/2018 3:45:09 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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YAWN


2 posted on 10/08/2018 3:46:05 PM PDT by butlerweave
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They couldn’t get flies to come to cow dung.


3 posted on 10/08/2018 3:46:29 PM PDT by jyo19
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"...There is no evidence that the Trump campaign moved forward with the proposals.
4 posted on 10/08/2018 3:46:55 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Elections have consequences. get over it, we won! ~ Barack Obama)
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Anyone doubt that the democrats would stoop to this?

We’ve already seen this with some of the campaigns against corporations where a few activists try to project themselves as thousands of people. And with fake facebook and twitter profiles.

Do we need laws against this type of deception? And how would they be structured?


5 posted on 10/08/2018 3:49:06 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Anyone doubt that the democrats would stoop to this?

We’ve already seen this with some of the campaigns against corporations where a few activists try to project themselves as thousands of people. And with fake facebook and twitter profiles.

Do we need laws against this type of deception? And how would they be structured?


6 posted on 10/08/2018 3:49:07 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Paid Trolls: The model that Media Matters uses right now.

Fake users, thousands of posts. Especially to The Hill. Comments there are blatently paid trolls.

Not illegal, though maybe it should be. Used to perfection by dozens of Soros financed groups. Heck, they even use paif protestors, with fake “I’ve been mollested” screams.


7 posted on 10/08/2018 3:50:04 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Q: Believing Is Seeing!)
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So what? is that illegal?


8 posted on 10/08/2018 3:52:18 PM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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I’d say the dems are losing big time because CNN is back to Russia Russia Russia. This time Mueller really really got him. He’s done for sure now.


9 posted on 10/08/2018 3:54:27 PM PDT by shelterguy
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Agree.

This is nothing more than what Democrats do.

But Democrats are never investigated for it.

10 posted on 10/08/2018 3:59:24 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Reporters ought to do a little investigating about Obama, including his millions of fake Twitter followers.


11 posted on 10/08/2018 3:59:47 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Obama: 3 million fake followers

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/technology/twitter-followers-nyt.html


12 posted on 10/08/2018 4:00:57 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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More fake news. And not even Russia, Russia, Russia. Enough already.

Every day, the failing NYT plumbs new lows.


13 posted on 10/08/2018 4:01:00 PM PDT by goldstategop (I In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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I expected more leaks from Mueller this week. And here one is, right on cue.

I hop they can do better before Rosenstein testifies on thurs.


14 posted on 10/08/2018 4:03:10 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (I am a Putin bot. (it, their, theirs))
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“There is no evidence that the Trump campaign moved forward with the proposals. “

Obviously, evidence for impeachment. (/s)


15 posted on 10/08/2018 4:05:34 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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How many DOZENS of Democrat “Opinion Management Firms” already use bots on Social Media, and have for well over a DECADE?


16 posted on 10/08/2018 4:08:00 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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They couldn’t get flies to come to cow dung.

I don't know who did it,but I have seen it happen.

17 posted on 10/08/2018 4:08:29 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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Yeah, and nothing happened because Trump won the nomination outright and there was no need for a social media delegate fight with Ted Cruz. So Gates, and maybe Manafort, floated a trial balloon that fell like a lead balloon.

This is their best, post-Kavnanaugh? What happened to that big Slimes story about Trump's inheritance? That seems to have been forgotten too.

18 posted on 10/08/2018 4:14:17 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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Is this somehow worse than dead people voting?


19 posted on 10/08/2018 4:20:41 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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There are probably close to 20M fake ids out there.
1M are probably being used by the MSM


20 posted on 10/08/2018 4:35:12 PM PDT by Zathras
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