Posted on 03/20/2017 4:01:09 PM PDT by b4its2late
WASHINGTON Federal investigators are examining whether far-right news sites played any role last year in a Russian cyber operation that dramatically widened the reach of news stories — some fictional — that favored Donald Trump’s presidential bid, two people familiar with the inquiry say.
Operatives for Russia appear to have strategically timed the computer commands, known as “bots,” to blitz social media with links to the pro-Trump stories at times when the billionaire businessman was on the defensive in his race against Democrat Hillary Clinton, these sources said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is accused by the FBI of ordering a campaign intended to influence the U.S. election. Russian President Vladimir Putin is accused by the FBI of ordering a campaign intended to influence the U.S. election. Mikhail Klimentyev AP The bots’ end products were largely millions of Twitter and Facebook posts carrying links to stories on conservative internet sites such as Breitbart News and InfoWars, as well as on the Kremlin-backed RT News and Sputnik News, the sources said. Some of the stories were false or mixed fact and fiction, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the bot attacks are part of an FBI-led investigation into a multifaceted Russian operation to influence last year’s elections.
Investigators examining the bot attacks are exploring whether the far-right news operations took any actions to assist Russia’s operatives. Their participation, however, wasn’t necessary for the bots to amplify their news through Twitter and Facebook.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article139695453.html#storylink=cpy
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...as an example, bots had spread links to fictional stories that accused Clinton of involvement in running a child-sex ring in the basement of a Washington pizza parlor...
Ok people, no more #PizzaGate posts.
Non-Operation-Mockingbird news outlets bump for later...
i know i’ll get flamed but it looks like Trump can’t drain the CIA,NSA,FBI swamp now without looking like hes covering up the investigations. I think he should have started on the commies at the CIA, NSA, FBI and most of the federal law enforcement. they ain’t doin their jobs.
Das vedanya to the Jim Robinsky for influencing vote. Blinis and vodka on the house!
I hear Putin better lover than topless guy on SNL who plays Putin.
There's everything about that concept that neither my mind nor stomach will entertain.
Chock full of lies and the Big Lie, but one thing stands out:
They are going forward with the planned coup.
Same timeline as Trump and Alex Jones. Was this also the Hammer dragnet?
Mid-broadcast on Savage’s show?
FR posts/comments come up in Google searches for phrases/keywords.
Whatever was Trump thinking—and who convinced him?—to keep Comey in place?
Not a flame, but sometimes, you have to skim the scum off the top before draining the rest of the swamp. You have to admit, Trump has managed to get the scum to come up out of the murk.
Classic Trump: he gets them to out themselves and then they deny it obsessively, saving him the hassle of a spotlight.
These things are bat shxx crazy.
Is there a way that the public can search to see who was being spied on?
Do I have this straight: the entire DNC/MSM/government apparatus (politicians, television, newspapers, magazines, online, BLM, “anarchists”, billionaire funders, liberal technology corporations, liberal superPACs, intelligence agencies, foreign governments) mounts a co-ordinated assault on one candidate for president, with 24/7 non-stop negative coverage of him, open promotion of his opponent, fake protests, “Correct the Record” online shilling, fake rape allegations, fake Russia allegations, police turning a blind eye to violence against Trump supporters, the exact same talking points everywhere every day, making billions of dollars of illegal in-kind donations to his opponent... and the FBI investigates a couple of blogs for publishing anti-Hillary material because the first amendment no longer applies to people who don’t despise America.
Did I miss anything?
What’s amusing is these were far left news sites when the libs were using them to bash Cheney and Scooter Libby on the Niger Yellowcake thing, and Valerie Plame.
Libs and LaRouchies just can’t make their minds up.
True, but Putin still has the face of a softshell river turtle.
I think in Russia “buckwheat pancake” blini is the code equivalent of pizza.
If he wants you to snuff it, all he has to do is ...puff it.
Also, we could mention the absence of any inaccurate stories published by Breitbart.
Not sure about Infowars, but I bet even Alex Jones will hedge at the correct time, instead of the MSM’s pretense of total accuracy.
Sounds about right.
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