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Twitter to tell 677,000 users they were had by the Russians. Some signs show the problem continues.
Washington Post ^ | Jan. 19, 2018 | Eli Rosenberg

Posted on 01/19/2018 8:29:48 PM PST by Innovative

Twitter says it will notify nearly 700,000 users who interacted with accounts the company has identified as potential pieces of a propaganda effort by the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election.

The company on Friday also disclosed thousands of accounts that it said were associated with the Kremlin-linked troll farm, the Internet Research Agency (IRA) and the Russian government, adding to numbers that it released to Congress in October.

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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Conspiracy; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 3rdthread; intimidation; propaganda; russia; russianpropagandists; russianpuppets; russianstooges; russiasucks; twitter
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1 posted on 01/19/2018 8:29:49 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative

While the pusillanimous Republicans stall, the Democrats frame the debate.


2 posted on 01/19/2018 8:31:18 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Headline: Muslims Fear Backlash from Tomorrow's Terror Attack - Mark Steyn)
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To: Innovative

Twitter is a sh**hole. Got rid of my account months ago and never regretted it or looked back since.


3 posted on 01/19/2018 8:31:43 PM PST by cranked
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To: Innovative

Thank you, Project Veritas! Good timing.


4 posted on 01/19/2018 8:33:46 PM PST by kallisti (Studies show climate change is primarily caused by white toxic masculinity)
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To: Innovative

Dumped the twitter sh_thole a long time ago....went to Gab.ai


5 posted on 01/19/2018 8:35:56 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Innovative

Ah, so of course the Election results are invalid. Do over!! [/s]


6 posted on 01/19/2018 8:36:38 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Innovative

Twitter is tracking your usage for your own good, see?


7 posted on 01/19/2018 8:38:10 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Innovative

Zombies just need a narrative to hang on to.


8 posted on 01/19/2018 8:39:07 PM PST by DanielRedfoot (Po Dunk)
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To: lgjhn23

Gab is boring as hell. Why not just stay here?


9 posted on 01/19/2018 8:39:12 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Innovative

How many Twitter user fell afoul of Democrat propaganda?


10 posted on 01/19/2018 8:40:18 PM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: Jeff Chandler
I've never used Twitter so someone tell me how you'd tell this :

" . . . which included spreading propaganda and incendiary reports on social media about subjects like police brutality, Black Lives Matter, Muslim rights and veterans issues, and hacking Democratic officials to sow discord in the country."

from say, oh, Hillary's handmaiden Huma Weiner posting under an assumed name?

11 posted on 01/19/2018 8:40:21 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Innovative
What utter HORSESHIT!

This is nothing but blantant censorship of GOPers/pro-Trumpers and pro-Trump facts.

12 posted on 01/19/2018 8:40:26 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Innovative

I already spend too damn much time on-line.

I certainly don’t need Twitter or FB for anything.


13 posted on 01/19/2018 8:40:42 PM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Innovative

Russians, Russians, they’re everywhere.

Why do they laugh at Joe McCarthy?


14 posted on 01/19/2018 8:40:56 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Rashputin

subjects like police brutality, Black Lives Matter, Muslim rights and veterans issues, and hacking Democratic officials to sow discord in the country
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You cannot criticize BLM, Islam or defend the police, nor can you think the DNC was a leak, not a hack and that the leaker was named Seth Rich.
Anything against the leftist agenda sows discord in the country.


15 posted on 01/19/2018 8:45:55 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Innovative
> Twitter to tell 677,000 users they were had by the Russians. <

Wait a minute. I've been having a Twitter conversation with this lovely young Russian lady. And I haven't sent her very much money at all. Are you telling me that I've been duped?


16 posted on 01/19/2018 8:46:10 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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More fake news from WaPo “fact checked” by the actual Twitter company who engaged the services of a something called Hamilton 68 which IS an account of RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA, to “check for malicious content”— actually PROVIDING the malicious content. You can’t make this up.

This entire article is a complete propaganda piece originated from the little $#-T Jack Dorsey CEO of Twitter— whose address “@jack” is mentioned in all of the efforts by our GOOD GUYS as being not long for being in business (twitter that is).

By purporting this to the WaPo for the dwindling portion of the “deep state” that uses WaPo for primary bullcrap release—Twitter is committing financial suicide. People should run— sprint— to stop their accounts and come on board more reliable and open accounts who do NOT tweak the “trends” to censor the truth. Twitter IS PRAVDA, cynical lying bastard Jack Dorsey- criminal.


17 posted on 01/19/2018 8:48:58 PM PST by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: Innovative
700,000 users who interacted with accounts the company has identified as potential pieces of a propaganda?

What about the other 300 million twitter users?

Won't they be notified they are wasting they're time?

18 posted on 01/19/2018 8:49:33 PM PST by mdittmar
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Oh STFU you guys lost this election fair and square! The sooner you admit the economy was stagnated and you screwed with the publics’ healthcare, the sooner you’ll come to grips with what happened. Even IF Russia had a convincing presence on Social Networks, it was not the deciding factor. Go and F$#% yourselves!


19 posted on 01/19/2018 8:50:16 PM PST by CommieCutter ("Trump is god emperor and he will win." -- some hacker)
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To: Innovative

Of all the websites I try to avoid....WP is number one. They are not journalist’s. They are political hacks.


20 posted on 01/19/2018 8:50:31 PM PST by Revel
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