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Why Clinton Lost: What Russia Did to Control the American Mind and Put Trump in the White House
Newsweek ^ | November 18, 2017 | Jessica Kwong

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 ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: 2016; fakemedia; fakenews; hillary; hillarylost; newsweak; newsweek; realpropaganda; russia; trump; trumprussia
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
$4700...Really?

That's 1 second of fake news on the pro Witch, dem controlled msm.

21 posted on 11/18/2017 11:31:06 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The psychosis of the left on full display.


22 posted on 11/18/2017 11:36:39 PM PST by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Stay the course!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A little girl in three words tells Hillary why she lost https://twitter.com/DCCogan/status/932150603530125312


23 posted on 11/18/2017 11:39:01 PM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Fake News Media put out millions of dollars of propaganda against Trump during the election in direct and trackable collusion with the Clinton Campaign.

That expenditure, and sheer amount of air and print time, makes the cost and reach of all ads secured by Russians combined pale in comparison.


24 posted on 11/18/2017 11:54:00 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: Olog-hai

Oh geez....thank you for that late night photo of Ms. Kwong & her lovely bosom length hair.

I call not guilty & go to sleep with an easy conscience.

;^)


25 posted on 11/18/2017 11:59:05 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A Los Angeles native, Jessica Kwong grew up speaking Spanish, Cantonese and English, in that order. Her journalism career started at the San Francisco Chronicle and she has also been a staff writer at the San Antonio Express-News, La Opinión, Time Warner Cable Sports, San Francisco Examiner, and the Orange County Register. Kwong earned her bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature in Spanish and English and Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley.

Not really in the Dan Rather league of journalists.


26 posted on 11/19/2017 12:00:56 AM PST by McGruff (Lock Her Up! In a Padded Cell!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just seeing articles from the MSM about “what happened” reminds me of reading about a contemporary native society (possibly Yanomami) that believed tribe members could use charms to “lure” sweet potatoes out of the gardens of rival tribes (sweet potato poaching via magic). It was a common understanding in that culture - luring sweet potatoes. Likewise - we keep seeing MSM analysis no doubt based on the same kind of evidence-based methodology employed by the Yanomami.


27 posted on 11/19/2017 12:06:09 AM PST by ransomnote
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To: Be Careful

Hmmmmm....”pumping out lies to control the American mind”.....wow....those rooskies really are so clever......

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Interesting. Apparently the Rooskies techniques didn’t work on the United States MSM because they aren’t Americans. Good thing we have a resident Un-American press to play watch dog and tell Americans when we’ve been duped.


28 posted on 11/19/2017 12:10:05 AM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

The Democratic Party is essentially a Cargo Cult.


29 posted on 11/19/2017 12:12:29 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Evil lost.


30 posted on 11/19/2017 12:19:15 AM PST by mulligan (The)
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To: Olog-hai

Ms Kwong, you syphilitic whore. We have little to fear from putin’s russia, the enemy is within. The demoncrats are the ideological red-headed step children of the old soviet union. Marxists, socialists, communists, & pinkos right here in America. You know, that russian bogeyman you’re looking for. Take a look in the mirror.


31 posted on 11/19/2017 12:35:54 AM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Putin knows Hillary. I don’t blame him for trying to get people to vote for Trump.


32 posted on 11/19/2017 12:51:01 AM PST by McGruff (Lock Her Up! In a Padded Cell!)
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To: Robert DeLong

The article is presented as if written by some college freshman analyzing the situation.


33 posted on 11/19/2017 12:56:30 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is this actually a real article? This can’t be a real article.


34 posted on 11/19/2017 2:11:26 AM PST by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let me see if I understand this:

1. The Russian hacking was not hacking, but the same advertising and fake twitter accounts both sides used.
2. The two billion spent by both sides spent during the presidential campaign, was less influential than the Russians spending a few thousand from an office in St. Petersberg.
3. A year after the election, there is no confirmation of Russians having altered a single ballot.
    and finally...
4. Newsweek publishes articles this bad, and can't figure out why their readership is so low.

Does that sound about right?

35 posted on 11/19/2017 2:23:52 AM PST by Widget Jr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jessica, you’re kwrong


36 posted on 11/19/2017 2:32:20 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I keep thinking they have to be done creating excuses, and I keep discovering that I was wrong again. It used to be Russian spies blamed for this, and now it’s their journalists lying and influencing the election - cheating - only our journalists are supposed to lie to influence the election.

Each of the following came from Hillary, from one of her drones, or from a pro-Hillary article. I am not creative enough to have made these up.

95. Russian journalists and bloggers posting controversial information and nearly $5,000 worth of ads elected Trump.

94. Requiring voter ID in Wisconsin elected Trump.

93. American voters finding her insufferable because of Hillary’s confidence in her own Christian virtues, which represent America’s exceptional virtue, elected Trump.

92. Hillary’s very bad luck elected Trump.

91. A culture of grievance, victimhood, and scapegoating among hillbillies elected Trump.

90. Hillary’s beauty regime taking 600 hours away from the campaign elected Trump.

89. The press relentlessly beating Hillary up and obsessively focusing on her alleged faults elected Trump.

88. Debate questioners not asking the questions Hillary wanted elected Trump.

87. The Democrat Party having no data and no money for Hillary elected Trump.

86. TV executives failing to give Hillary enough airtime elected Trump.

85. Barack Obama failing to make a speech in favor of Hillary elected Trump.

84. Low information voters elected Trump.

73. The cultural, political, and economic game that’s being played to keep women in their place elected Trump.

82. White women voting against Hillary because their fathers, husbands, boyfriends, and male employers told them not to vote for “the girl” elected Trump.

81. Anthony Weiner, who brought the dumb story about Hillary’s dumb emails back into the news, elected Trump.

80. Matt Lauer and NBC launching a pointless ambush against Hillary and soft-peddling her opponent elected Trump.

79. An unfair election with secret reasons we may never know about elected Trump.

78. Hillary not being meaner and nastier elected Trump.

77. Sexism from Bernie Sanders and his voters elected Trump.

76. The American people not liking Hillary enough, without reason, elected Trump.

75. Innuendo and character attacks by Bernie Sanders elected Trump.

74. White identity politics from whites who felt threatened by black identity politics elected Trump.

73. Bernie Sanders voters not showing up elected Trump.

72. A bunch of black swans converging on Hillary in the final 12 days of the election elected Trump.

71. Wikileaks elected Trump.

70. Twitter memes elected Trump.

69. Astrological influences elected Trump.

68. Blatant sexism and unconscious sexism elected Trump.

67. People voting against Hillary because Obama is black elected Trump.

66. Traditionalist attitudes toward women elected Trump.

65. White voters afraid of losing White Privilege elected Trump.

64. Democrats doing a poor job of controlling the narrative elected Trump.

63. A thousand Russian agents working every day elected Trump.

62. Content farms in Macedonia elected Trump.

61. The TV networks keeping Hillary off the air elected Trump.

60. The vast right-wing conspiracy elected Trump.

59. Infowars elected Trump.

58. Google elected Trump.

57. Steve Bannon elected Trump.

56. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker elected Trump.

55. Nate Silver elected Trump.

54. Citizens United elected Trump.

53. The DNC being a mess and in poor shape elected Trump.

52. Bad polling numbers elected Trump.

51. Obama winning two terms elected Trump.

50. People wanting change elected Trump.

49. The New York Times, cable news, and television executives elected Trump.

48. According to Hillary, “Eight of the top 10 political documentaries on Netflix were screeds against President Obama and me” - Netflix elected Trump.

47. Democrats not making the right documentaries elected Trump.

46. The Democrat Party and the Republican Party elected Trump.

45. Concerns that Hillary Clinton was involved with a child sex trafficking operation elected Trump.

44. Concern about Hillary Clinton being a lizard elected Trump.

43. High expectations that Hillary would win elected Trump.

42. Voter suppression elected Trump.

41. FBI Director Comey announcing a criminal investigation into Hillary’s felonies just over a week before the election, when he had little reason to think there was anything there, elected Trump.

40. The Russians ransacking Hillary’s computer files and strategically leaking the truth elected Trump.

39. Misogyny elected Trump.

38. Gary Johnson and Jill Stein voters elected Trump.

37. Advocacy press on the right elected Trump.

36. Facebook elected Trump.

35. Old, out-of-touch democrats with a flawed message that alienated young voters elected Trump.

34. White nationalists elected Trump.

33. Hatred of Hillary Clinton at the FBI (how could anyone hate a lovable woman like Hillary?) elected Trump.

32. FBI investigation elected Trump.

31. Black voters not liking Hillary elected Trump.

30. Fewer than 100,000 deplorable voters spread across a handful of states elected Trump.

29. People hating Hillary because she is so professional, so polished, such a wonderful lawyer, so brilliant, so good, so righteous, and so much better than us elected Trump.

28. The lack of energy among Hillary supporters and expectations of Hillary being the inevitable winner, because it was her turn, elected Trump.

27. Robby Mook selecting the wrong travel stops for Hillary and spending heavily in the wrong states elected Trump.

26. Hillary’s campaign team failing to hone her message and get voters to the polls elected Trump.

25. Bill Clinton’s appearance of an inappropriate meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch elected Trump.

24. The ugly stew of racism elected Trump.

23. Hillary’s alleged lack of likability and claimed lack of trustworthiness elected Trump.

22. Self-hating women elected Trump.

21. Evangelical, Catholic, anti-marriage equality, and anti-choice social conservatives elected Trump.

20. Sinister outside forces elected Trump.

19. Whitelash elected Trump.

18. Democrat policies that favor the rich elected Trump.

17. Failure to talk to working-class white voters elected Trump.

16. Men elected Trump.

15. Lower-level FBI agents pressuring their Director (because that’s how professional relationships work) elected Trump.

14. Tim Kaine gave Hillary Virginia, but he also elected Trump.

13. White women elected Trump.

12. Racists elected Trump.

11. Sexists elected Trump.

10. Rural voters elected Trump.

9. The working class voting against their own interests elected Trump.

8. Fake news elected Trump.

7. Supermarket tabloids elected Trump.

6. Celebrity (The Apprentice) elected Trump.

5. White male resentment elected Trump.

4. Over-shaming Trump supporters elected Trump.

3. Rejecting Bernie elected Trump.

2. Reagan democrats elected Trump.

1. Backlash against political correctness elected Trump.

There are many terrible reasons for President Trump’s victory, but there are two things that were not a factor. First, Hillary was the perfect candidate; nothing she did harmed her candidacy in any way. Second, President Trump was the worst candidate imaginable; nothing he did helped his candidacy at all, except with racists, sexists, bigots, and the rest of the basket of deplorables.


37 posted on 11/19/2017 2:35:28 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Newsweek’s water supply has been hit with LSD or CIA or CIA and LSD—not sure which order.


38 posted on 11/19/2017 2:40:53 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What’s going onto change everything:
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39 posted on 11/19/2017 2:43:40 AM PST by rodguy911 (Home of the free because of the brave!MAGA!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It's TRUE, I lied.

Russians told me that if I voted for Trump, they'd shoot my dog, so I voted Clinton.


40 posted on 11/19/2017 3:07:45 AM PST by C210N (It is easier to fool the people than convince them that they have been fooled)
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