Posted on 12/19/2018 7:43:02 PM PST by Brilliant
As Russia’s online election machinations came to light last year, a group of Democratic tech experts decided to try out similarly deceptive tactics in the fiercely contested Alabama Senate race, according to people familiar with the effort and a report on its results...
One participant in the Alabama project, Jonathon Morgan, is the chief executive of New Knowledge, a small cyber security firm that wrote a scathing account of Russia’s social media operations in the 2016 election that was released this week by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
An internal report on the Alabama effort, obtained by The New York Times, says explicitly that it “experimented with many of the tactics now understood to have influenced the 2016 elections.”
The project’s operators created a Facebook page on which they posed as conservative Alabamians, using it to try to divide Republicans and even to endorse a write-in candidate to draw votes from Mr. Moore. It involved a scheme to link the Moore campaign to thousands of Russian accounts that suddenly began following the Republican candidate on Twitter, a development that drew national media attention.
“We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet,” the report says...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Sounds like an ‘in kind’ campaign contribution to the Jones campaign
Will their be an investigation?
Violations need to be filed
Where is Mueller? and the CPL?
A click bait scheme to make money is not election interference, whether done by Russians or non-Russians.
The New York Slimes has degenerated into outright Russian hatred, no better than Nazism.
They may be correct! Plenty of peeps here still bow to shrubbery. Knee!
There were plenty of Putinistas on this site dutifully posting Russian and Iranian propaganda [and still are a few, though it is hard to tell them from Paulistas, LaRouchies and Greenies.]
That said, there’s no way to prevent Russia from using psyops without doing damage to our 1st amendment.
This is a federal office, so the Federal Election Commission wants to hear about this. At the least, I suspect it is a large and unreported in kind contribution to the Doug Jones campaign.
I'll bet lunch that someone took a tax deduction on these expenditures. Where is the IRS?
BUMP
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