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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

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To: Captain Compassion

677,000 IF you believe the “census” of Twitter itself who says that many were victim of russian trolls and bots. Ridiculous.


21 posted on 01/19/2018 8:50:32 PM PST by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Hmmm. That’s what I get for not routinely snacking on candy with Orwell’s Soma in it. I should have known that.


22 posted on 01/19/2018 8:51:50 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Innovative

The FBI says that Russians funneled money to the NRA.
I follow the NRA on Twitter.
Therefore twitter warns me that I’m following Russians on twitter.


23 posted on 01/19/2018 8:52:02 PM PST by TigersEye (#ReleaseTheMemo)
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To: Leaning Right

Wait a minute....she’s the one who promised to marry me and have many beautiful Amerikanski children!


24 posted on 01/19/2018 8:58:19 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: TigersEye

“Twitter to tell 677,000 users they were had by the Russians. Some signs show the problem continues.”

I see what they did. They took all of the Hillarybots, renamed the Russianbots and are running a story on it.


25 posted on 01/19/2018 8:58:41 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Death of the MSM - "Because it is my show and I don't want to do that." Jake Tapper)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

LOL

I got the email from twitter today. I think the purpose of it is intimidation.
I tweeted and re-tweeted #ReleaseTheMemo too many times yesterday.


26 posted on 01/19/2018 9:04:49 PM PST by TigersEye (#ReleaseTheMemo)
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To: Innovative
Funny, but the Facebunnies never cared about the “Internet Research Agency”, even through it had several articles written about it (and maybe even a 60 Minutes mockumentary?).

They didn't care at all, since it made them money, even if indirectly.

Until D. J. Trump became President.

That was the first time they cared about the Russians influencing US citizens.

27 posted on 01/19/2018 9:17:42 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Luke21

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

I don’t go there a whole lot. FR is my favorite for the best.


28 posted on 01/19/2018 9:19:07 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

Who are they fooling and who are they getting their marching orders from? I don’t have a Twitter account and I think this sounds ridiculous.


29 posted on 01/19/2018 9:20:08 PM PST by hsmomx3
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To: Innovative

The #ReleaseTheMemo was just too overwhelming for Twitter! So they made up phony reason ..... Russian bots! From Deplorables to Russian bots!


30 posted on 01/19/2018 9:29:10 PM PST by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: Innovative

Fantasy


31 posted on 01/19/2018 9:37:36 PM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: mdittmar

Will twitter also tell you if you interacted with a DEMOCRAT TROLL FARM, like ShareBlue or one of the Soros-financed groups?????

OF COURSE THEY WON’T


32 posted on 01/19/2018 9:42:00 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Innovative

Is Twitter run by the CPUSA?


33 posted on 01/20/2018 12:48:22 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Revel

I think WaPo is just a deep state mouth piece. They use WaPo to disseminate their disinformation and leaks to the public to destroy political enemies. No wonder the MSM thinks they have a special license to lie, and how dare the peasants question their deep state wisdom.


34 posted on 01/20/2018 3:54:02 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Lopeover
Russian bots! From Deplorables to Russian bots!

Vive les Deplorabots!

35 posted on 01/20/2018 4:07:49 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: Innovative

Just another confirmation to my decision NOT to use Twitter.


36 posted on 01/20/2018 4:16:13 AM PST by Terry L Smith (.)
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To: Lopeover

Exactly! #ReleaseTheMemo was trending like mad, so they went into ohnoes! mode. Shut off some accounts, killed the autocomplete, etc. Shadowed it for a few hours. David Brocks group I think made some announcement that russian bots were repeating it so it would trend. Etc.

Then they set up their friendly bots to autopush #Trumpshutdown lol. For real.

But #ReleaseTheMemo was still trending #1 worldwide as of midnight last night, via external stats. Much gnashing of dorsey teefs.

The memo will be released; done deal. We did it!!! Hannity, FR, etc pushed hard and phones got melted. Don Jr. got in on the act. A million centipedes came together and we all did it.

Timing is everything. Nunes is waiting just a bit for the shutdown bs to clear so the media can’t ignore it when

The Sledgehammer Comes Down!!!!

Tick tock, Barak.


37 posted on 01/20/2018 6:25:15 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (SEDITION! Obama DOJ colluded to try overthrow the President!)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

I heard here on Freeper that POTUS will make sure it is released when the news media is not focused on the shutdown. Some think this is why the Dems would not Deal. They are trying to keep the people from finding out about the Big Ugly.


38 posted on 01/20/2018 7:43:38 AM PST by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: TigersEye

I got mine this morning too. I only retweeted Rep. Steve King. I guess he’s a Russian bot too, LOL,


39 posted on 01/20/2018 8:20:47 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: Innovative
One Tweet mentioned this site as the source of the "Russian bot" attribution. dashboard.securingdemocracy.org

When you click on their page, look who is on their Advisory Council -- at the bottom, it's our old friend Bill Kristol with his Brokeback Mountain smirk.

40 posted on 01/20/2018 8:55:35 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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