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Russia trolls 'spreading vaccination misinformation' to create discord
bbc ^ | 24 August 2018

Posted on 08/25/2018 7:28:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The researchers reviewed more than 250 tweets about vaccination from accounts linked to the St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA). In February the agency was named in a US indictment over alleged election meddling.

The IRA tweets used polarising language and linked vaccination to controversial statements about race, class and government legitimacy, the researchers said. One tweet casting doubt on vaccines that was cited in the study read: "Did you know there was secret government database of #Vaccine-damaged child? #VaccinateUS".

Another that argued for vaccinations said: "#VaccinateUS You can't fix stupidity. Let them die from measles, and I'm for #vaccination!"

Meanwhile less sophisticated "content polluters" - bot accounts that distribute malware, unsolicited commercial content and disruptive materials - shared anti-vaccination messages much more frequently than average Twitter users, using them as "bait" to get people to click on links to malicious websites.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: russia; russian; trollfarms
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1 posted on 08/25/2018 7:28:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

This is a great example of how the Russians are helping Donald Trump unfairly beat the Democrats.


2 posted on 08/25/2018 7:30:36 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: BenLurkin

The pharma industry is totally run by people who would happily have some poorly-tested, toxic junk shot up into countless infants, in order to make an extra buck.

If anti-vaccine messages have an impact, the industry’s total lack of trustworthiness, along with the same condition in those whose job it is to hold them to account, are the primary reason why.


3 posted on 08/25/2018 7:32:17 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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To: Steely Tom

I think I figured out what they are really up to.

They are trying to get the free exchange of ideas on the internet shut down.


4 posted on 08/25/2018 7:33:00 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Russia trolls ‘spreading vaccination misinformation’ to create discord

I think someone needs to explain the difference between what the Russians are accused of and what the mass media is doing right here in this country. Isn’t the mass media selling the same crap as the Russians?

I see the mass media of this country spewing as much bull plop as I see from the so-called Russian “interference”.

And to make another point. Just how many votes have been changed by Russian “interference” as opposed by the outright lies from the mass media, DNC and the Mueller team.


5 posted on 08/25/2018 7:38:27 AM PDT by JayAr36 (We have the best government that money can buy.)
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To: BenLurkin

So when is the FBI going to raid St. Petersburg?


6 posted on 08/25/2018 7:38:48 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: BenLurkin
Let's see. Millions and millions of posts on twitter every day, and a couple of tweets about vaccinations are supposed to tear people away from The Walking Dead on TV? I don't think so.

If they wanted to stir up controversy in America, they'd have better luck with tweets about Kim Kardashian's butt. People might actually pay attention to that.
 

7 posted on 08/25/2018 7:46:44 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
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To: BenLurkin

“Hacking an election” used to mean a computer hacker somehow altering the vote totals. Now it means there are trolls and malware on the internet including some from Russia.


8 posted on 08/25/2018 7:50:02 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: BenLurkin

Ben,
That is exactly what I was thinking when I heard that.
Marginalize non-MSM sources of dissenting critical thinking views.
I expect there are some very damaging vaccine safety studies coming out in the near future that Big Pharma wants to nullify by advance spincasting the message “all unfavorable stories about vaccine safety are Russian propaganda.”

Facts: the US gov’t Vaccine Injury fund has spent 3.5 Billion to compensate thousands of vaccine injury victims.

The US Childhood vaccine schedule is the world’s most aggressive protocol.

Trump stated similarly thoughts two years ago when asked about this topic.


9 posted on 08/25/2018 7:52:36 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: BenLurkin
Russia's biggest health crisis domestically is its HIV epidemic and the denialism the Kremlin promotes.

What about the Russian trolls on this very site? Free Republic. That is more annoying.

And here is Lauren Southern, the supposed spokesman for white South African farmers, posing with a Stalin portrait (after several favorable mentions of him on her pages regarding WWII and whatnot) and with the deluded, maniacal, Aleksandr Dugin - upon her visit to Russia.


10 posted on 08/25/2018 7:56:58 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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I searched Google using the words "vaccine" "Russians bots" and received "About 1,650,000 results" with nearly all of the results being generated within the last two days. We are intentionally being flooded with Fake News in an effort to marginalize anyone who dares to research the subject.

Here's a screen shot of the 1st page of my search.


11 posted on 08/25/2018 7:59:37 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: BenLurkin

A well known US IT Artificial Intelligence firm did a study and report that came up with an erroneous conclusion about Flu vaccinations.

Were they possibly part of the vast Russian conspiracy?
They did that study under Obama’s umbrella. So does the vast Russian conspiracy go all the way back to 2014? or 2010? or 2000? or 1994?

Was Hillary mis-informed on the nexus of the vast conspiracy?


12 posted on 08/25/2018 8:10:21 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: BenLurkin

If your child is hurt by a drunk driver, sue him.

If your child is hurt by a vaccine shot, screw you.
Big Vaccine has legal immunity.
Big Vaccine can put bird turd, mandatory inject your child, and screw you.

You have better protect with drunk drivers than vaccines.


13 posted on 08/25/2018 8:27:40 AM PDT by TheNext
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Now you dislike Lauren Southern? She produced the “Farmlands” documentary about the South African farmer genocide. Russia was offering South African farmers the right ti immigrate there to move there to escape the black genocide, so it’s not a big surprise to have a picture of her there. You sure same to take the state department globalist line on everything.
Seems like you may be sock puppet


14 posted on 08/25/2018 8:51:02 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

And I have pictures of your hero, and Hillary interacting with the most vicious people in the Middle East, Chinese communists, EU fascist leadership, Etc. She and Brittany Pettibone went on a trip to Russia and interviewed all kinds of people, you’re playing games. How about a complete list of who All She interviewed when she was there. Her number one goal and stopping the genocide of white culture, in South Africa, in the UK for she is banned, in Europe, in Australia. It’s kind of odd that she would be one of your biggest targets.


15 posted on 08/25/2018 9:02:21 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: thoughtomator

Russians + Big Pharma........It doesn’t get any worse than that......... /s


16 posted on 08/25/2018 9:05:30 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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To: thoughtomator

Vaccines are evil, and even for some uses the issue is the way the industry has twisted them into an assumed “safe” practice...

Here is one to start your journey, where did the AIDS virus come from?

SIV, Simian ImmunoVirus - They used the blood of monkeys to grow polio vaccines and then switched the Chimps out with other types and the rest is a very interesting case

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=polio+vaccine+and+aids

Lots of links, I have spoken to many in the industry and this is no secret, you just do not mention it or things “happen”


17 posted on 08/25/2018 10:38:48 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: DesertRhino; BenLurkin

Putin and the Soviet holdovers in the Kremlin trained the very South African radicals holding power today. Putin is set to make nuclear deals with the current South African president. And now for kicks: Putin is redistributing STOLEN Crimean land to thousands of white farmers. Bolshevik to the end, no different from the radical blacks he and his ilk trained.

I hope Lauren Southern reads her comments because even some of her devoted fans found her Stalin comments questionable and note that Dugin is a sociopath.

Honestly I don’t know much about, but it’s a shame she doesn’t unpack the history of South Africa’s leftist leaders who run the show...many have beene funded and trained by Russians. And Putin continues to promote regimes all over Africa from Sudan to Central African Republic. Actual collusion.


18 posted on 08/25/2018 10:39:47 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Don’t know much about her* other than the Farmlands thing and her favorable opinions of Putin.


19 posted on 08/25/2018 10:40:57 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: thoughtomator

This. Good post.

Geez. Everything the control-leftists hate comes from Russians whispering into our ears.

We aren’t as stupid as the idiots who believe the utter hypocrisies the left poops out daily on their media.


20 posted on 08/25/2018 11:06:27 AM PDT by Yaelle
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