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How Russia Harvested American Rage to Reshape U.S. Politics
The New York Slimes, Propaganda Desk ^ | October 9, 2017 | NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI, Disinformationists

Posted on 10/10/2017 8:53:35 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

YouTube videos of police beatings on American streets. A widely circulated internet hoax about Muslim men in Michigan collecting welfare for multiple wives. A local news story about two veterans brutally mugged on a freezing winter night.

All of these were recorded, posted or written by Americans. Yet all ended up becoming grist for a network of Facebook pages linked to a shadowy Russian company that has carried out propaganda campaigns for the Kremlin, and which is now believed to be at the center of a far-reaching Russian program to influence the 2016 presidential election.

A New York Times examination of hundreds of those posts shows that one of the most powerful weapons that Russian agents used to reshape American politics was the anger, passion and misinformation that real Americans were broadcasting across social media platforms.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: barfalert; fake; hillary2016; newmedia; news; pizdec; propaganda; russia2016election; trump2016
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The Russians certainly learned a thing or two from the New York Slimes, American Enemedia, and the American Prog Left!
1 posted on 10/10/2017 8:53:35 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

It appears that the NY Times has worked way, way harder at finding Russian propaganda on YouTube than any American voter ever has.


2 posted on 10/10/2017 8:55:16 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Navy Patriot

The slimes just doesn’t like that that the Russkies have better propaganda than they do.


3 posted on 10/10/2017 8:56:12 AM PDT by henkster (The View: A psychiatric group therapy session where the shrink has stepped out of the room.)
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To: Navy Patriot

DAISYDUKE WAKABAYASHI. What the...!?


4 posted on 10/10/2017 8:56:54 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Second Amendment. NOW more than ever!)
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To: Navy Patriot

So Hillary spent $1 billion on her campaign, but was torpedoed by some Russian Facebook posts?


5 posted on 10/10/2017 8:57:42 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

Logic has no place in regressive fantasy land.


6 posted on 10/10/2017 9:00:26 AM PDT by A message
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Baka tare !


7 posted on 10/10/2017 9:02:24 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Russia! Russia! Russia!


8 posted on 10/10/2017 9:03:40 AM PDT by Signalman
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The Russians certainly learned a thing or two from the New York Slimes, American Enemedia, and the American Prog Left!

They learned from when we were doing it to them.


9 posted on 10/10/2017 9:04:45 AM PDT by Drew68
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DAISYDUKE WAKABAYASHI. What the...!?

She drives the Nissan Z with the Stars and Bars ...

10 posted on 10/10/2017 9:04:54 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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Why would the Russians want to reshape the U.S. political landscape to something more nationalist and more patriotic? Doesn’t serve their interests at all. Progs avoid that inconvenient fact like the plague.


11 posted on 10/10/2017 9:05:01 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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So, the Russians documented the rage of Americans against the status quo and put it on facebook doing the job that the Slimes should be doing.

But, they, the Slimes, live in this Through the Looking Glass world in which reporting [by the Russians] is propaganda and propaganda by the Slimes is reporting.

Ctrl-left knows what business they are actually in. They just borrowed another word for it and think we are confused. Fake news is a good term for it.


12 posted on 10/10/2017 9:05:15 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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Does the NYT mention their previously unpublicized connection to antifa?


13 posted on 10/10/2017 9:05:30 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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14 posted on 10/10/2017 9:06:25 AM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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Why would the Russians want to reshape the U.S. political landscape to something more nationalist and more patriotic?

There you go using logic, again.

15 posted on 10/10/2017 9:07:21 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: reasonisfaith

You’d think if the NYT has a connection with antifa—a group whose agenda is to overthrow the United States government—that the American public would be interested in finding out more information about this NYT-antifa connection.


16 posted on 10/10/2017 9:08:22 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Conjures an image of scrawny legs poking out from loosely draping bluejeans shorts


17 posted on 10/10/2017 9:10:59 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: Navy Patriot

Yet all ended up becoming grist for a network of Facebook pages linked to a shadowy Russian company that has carried out propaganda campaigns for the Kremlin, and which is now believed to be at the center of a far-reaching Russian program to influence the 2016 presidential election.


Amazing to see the influence of the supposed $100,000 in Russian FakeBook ads (although the MSM has never shown us the ads). Hillary’s campaign spent upwards of $1B. So $100,000 is 0.01% of that $1B, yet we’re supposed to believe this tipped the election. It amounts to a single snowflake in a blizzard.


18 posted on 10/10/2017 9:11:37 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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"...The slimes just doesn’t like that that the Russkies have better propaganda than they do...

Boy, yours was the post of the day, if there ever was one.

19 posted on 10/10/2017 9:12:02 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: reasonisfaith

Don’t forget Obama and Valjar


20 posted on 10/10/2017 9:12:23 AM PDT by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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