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at bottom of article.... "Most of the coverage of Russian meddling involves their attempt to effect the outcome of the 2016 U.S. election. I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was *NOT* the main goal," he wrote on Twitter.

To prove his point, he referenced an anti-Islam protest in Houston in November 2017. Russian trolls were later shown to have organized both sides of the protest.

1 posted on 02/18/2018 3:59:36 AM PST by smileyface
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CNBC seems to have missed the most important tweet... " Rob Goldman ‏ @robjective Feb 16 The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election. We shared that fact, but very few outlets have covered it because it doesn’t align with the main media narrative of Tump and the election. https://twitter.com/robjective/status/96468012200658124
2 posted on 02/18/2018 4:03:10 AM PST by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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How does any of what these Russian trolls did not amount to nothing more than free speech?


3 posted on 02/18/2018 4:05:26 AM PST by SeeSharp
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Before Hillary lost everyone knew Russia was doing this to divide America.

After she lost they needed a special prosecutor to enact their coup so they said trump colluded with Russians.


4 posted on 02/18/2018 4:07:59 AM PST by for-q-clinton
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Regardless of whether the intent was to sow distrust or to influence the election, isn’t either justification for implementing the sanctions that Congress passed?


5 posted on 02/18/2018 4:09:11 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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Why should anyone believe the “facts” as presented by Rosenstein/Mueller?

These people sought to overthrow Article II Section 1 of the Constitution.

Whatever they say, count on truth being elsewhere.


6 posted on 02/18/2018 4:10:07 AM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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Trump backs Facebook's ads VP
"Most of the media coverage of Russian meddling alludes to an attempt to effect 2016's outcome.
I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was
*NOT* the main goal," the Facebook VP wrote on Twitter.

NEED TO KNOW: Mueller says he indicted the 13 Ruskis b/c they made "disparaging remarks" about candidate Hillary?

<><> when did Hillary's campaign report this criminality?

<><> who did they report it to?

<><> did the campaign notify voters about the plot?

7 posted on 02/18/2018 4:11:13 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Russian trolls were later shown to have organized both sides of the protest.

Wouldn't that make them moderates? THAT should be a crime.

8 posted on 02/18/2018 4:22:21 AM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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So according to Mueller, Russia tried to create divisions in America along class, religious, gender, and race.

I guess they didn’t realize the political left has been working that side of the street for awhile.


9 posted on 02/18/2018 4:25:58 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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So, FACEBOOK colluded with the Russians to influence a U.S. presidential election..??


11 posted on 02/18/2018 4:32:35 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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Trump’s on a roll with tweets!

MAGA!!!!!!


17 posted on 02/18/2018 4:53:58 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (SEDITION! Obama DOJ colluded to try overthrow the President!)
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“The point is to spoil it, to create the atmosphere of hate, to make it so stinky that normal people won’t want to touch it,”

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html
The internet agency was well known and exposed by buzzdeed in 2014, and other media outlets like The NY Times (above link) in 2015 and 2016.

Everybody knew they were trolls, even as far back as 2014.


20 posted on 02/18/2018 5:43:28 AM PST by tarpit
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Most of the coverage of Russian meddling involves their attempt to effect the outcome of the 2016 U.S. election.

One would think a person of such stature would know the difference between "affect" and "effect".

22 posted on 02/18/2018 6:28:05 AM PST by KevinB (I do not care for this Obama fellow.)
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Designed to divide America? I wasn’t aware Democraps needed any help. You couldn’t do a better job than 8 years of Obozo.


24 posted on 02/18/2018 9:27:04 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
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