Posted on 11/18/2017 10:38:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Fake news tweets and social media posts that flooded the internet leading up to the 2016 presidential election came from a Russian troll factory that works around the clock like any IT facility—except lies were pumping out to control the American mind and put Donald Trump in the White House.
The Internet Research Agency, which works on behalf of Russia inside a guarded, concrete building in St. Petersburg, has day and night shifts and hundreds of former journalists and bloggers creating thousands of posts with false and controversial information to reach certain quotas
It was "a merry-go-round of lies," Vitaly Bespalov, 26, who worked at the agency, told NBC News. "When you get on the carousel, you do not know who is behind you and neither you are aware of who is in front of you—but all of you are running around within the same circle.”
Early this month, Twitter testified before Congress and provided the Senate Intelligence Committee with more than 2,700 accounts tied to the agency, while Facebook identified more than 80,000 pieces of content linked to the agency. Meanwhile, Google found about $4,700 worth of search-and-display ads with dubious Russian ties....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Peugeot, Citroën, Renault and the rest of them too. (FIAT already came back; guess Tony fixed it again.)
Hmmmmm....”pumping out lies to control the American mind”.....wow....those rooskies really are so clever......
Alfa Romeo is back, too. My parents had a Simca way back when.
The media had more influence trying to give the Election to Hillary than Russia will have anything to do with it!
How do we know she isn’t under Russian control? If they can control millions of voters, a single journalist is simple.
Why would Russia want DJT to be president? as opposed to the woman who allowed them to dominate the uranium market.
Let’s if I have this correct. A small cadre of Russians were able to sway more Americans than the American press, & in all forms of communication, print, media & internet combined. Right. Kwong don’t know what she speaketh, & Americans not buying crap she selling. Nice try though sweetie. I’m sure you were able to sell your tripe to the anti American scum that populate this fine nation though, and quite a number of fools that our schools are pumping out.
Perhaps when China starts selling their Trumpchi cars, the press will realize that China was involved also. That will have them going well into 2024 election with their nonsense. 8>)
I would gladly red-pill her.
Jessica Kwong, a low IQ writer, brainwashed by marxist educators, and paid 1 dollar by Newsweak to produce anti-Trump fake news, what could be wrong ?
Newsweek. NYT. WaahPooh. Salon. Slate. Mother Jones. LA Times. Rolling Stone. ...
You were saying, Ms. Kwong?
Newsweak is the rag of the buffoonish, which crap like this article display.
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