Posted on 10/06/2017 6:37:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Russian Facebook and Twitter accounts masqueraded as pro-Trump Americans when they took aim at Clinton.
By meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Moscow appears to have initially aimed to plant Donald Trump in the White House. But as signs toward the end of the campaign pointed to Trump’s defeat, actors in Russia were primarily trying to hamstring Hillary Clinton’s perceived ascension to the presidency. That theme ThinkProgress detailed earlier this week by analyzing Russia’s creation of hundreds of fake Facebook accounts, pumped via ads and promotion into Americans’ feeds.
We’ve also learned that certain pages called for followers to vote for Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders, as opposed to Clinton — although those posts, especially as pertaining to Sanders, haven’t yet been revealed publicly.
Both the “Secured Borders” and “Beyond Patriotic” pages revealed by the Daily Beast were steeped in anti-Clinton rhetoric, with the latter organizing on-the-ground rallies that featured Americans chanting to “lock her up!” In one example from “Secured Borders,” the authors — referring to Clinton as “Killary” — piggy-backed on the outrage over Clinton’s comments that certain Trump supporters are “deplorables.” As the post wrote, “If Killary thinks that being American, loving your country and be concerned about ours and our children’s future is deplorable, then hell yeah count me in in that basket! [sic]”
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If your goal is to confuse me, you’ve succeeded.
Well, actually I do mind on occasion. Because something about that video triggers vertigo, and that FRiends truly sucks.
Are we to believe that Hillary spent $1 billion on her campaign, and was torpedoed by some Russians spending $100,000 on Facebook?
It's simple. Since we know the Russians were working with Trump to beat Hillary (Hillary herself told us that) it should be obvious that any and all anti-Hillary posts on social media MUST have come from the Russians.
Furthermore, the presence of all these Russian posts bashing Hillary is further proof that Hillary's assertion is indeed correct!
She spent 2 billion dollars and a few Facebook posts were responsible for her defeat...
I was personally swayed by these Russian Facebook ads. If I hadn’t heard Mrs. Clinton demeaned as “Killary,” I surely would have voted for her, probably several times. If I promise to testify to that effect, will Soros pay me a lot of money?
48 people checked “interested” in a rally in rural Idaho, and somehow $100k in ads reached 73 million people? I don’t think so but if I can pitch an ad to 73 million people at that price, sign me up.
So, the Russians used Facebook in the library to kill Hillary’s campaign?
Darn! I put all my bets on Seth Rich in the DNC with a (leaky) pipe!
The left uses fake accounts all the time. Lots of them.
Keep making comments like that and Jimski Robinsonoff will exile you to the cyber-gulag for a while.
> Now it is coming to light that it is exactly what they did.
I am not buying it. There is no way Russia would have preferred Trump to Clinton. Clinton could be (and was) bought. She had shown a willingness to sell out to Putin for cash.
Perfectly harmless memes...
...and nothing we didn’t already know about Hillary.
Who says they were fake? Who says Russians can’t comment on Facebook?
So?
The #1 factor in undermining Hillary Clinton’s 2008-2016 presidential campaign was...Hillary Clinton.
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Ive seen that video numerous times, but i’m now noticing that no one in her party seems particularly surprised about what had happened - in fact, they seem rather nonchalant.
I believe that they may have seen this sort of thing a few times before.
Of course not. The Russians put these accounts up in case Hillary won. All the better for them to make it as if the hand doing it was Trump voters instead of themselves, so she would go the easy route, blaming us instead of Russians.
It only is after she lost, and not won, that she started talking of Russians. Had she won, she would have attacked us just like they attack gun owners and never the terrorists.
They don’t actually think these Russian two bit efforts affected or effected anything at all but just maybe they can be squeezed into an Impeachment. The straws being grasped at are terribly flimsy even as straws go.
As if ThinkProgress was capable of analyzing anything...
Oh, there’s no denying Russia was putting out a lot of fake news and it was getting posted everywhere, even here. But that’s normal, Russia’s always spewed propaganda, since the days of the USSR Russia has “meddled,” if that’s what libs call lobbying. It’s part and parcel of having a free press that propagandists of all types and nations of all types will endeavor to have their views heard, and failing that, their agitprop injected into the US election debate. Even so, it is much better to have freedom of speech with all views- even “enemy” views- being aired and debated than it is to have no free speech where our elite become increasingly corrupt by being able to control or ban news sources.
Hillary’s just the first candidate that tries to imply this normal state of affairs where every nation “meddles” is unprecedented and that people who did not vote for her are gullible fools who would have voted for her had they not been tricked by the Russians. But we know this is false- we were never going to vote for her no matter what the Russians/Germans/Ukrainians/Brits/French/whoever planted.
There were ample reasons not to vote for her that she and only she was responsible for, such as installing a private server and sending classified material on it. And going further back was the fresh memory of Benghazi and the memory of Hillary’s effort to cram socialized medicine down our throats even before Obama came along.
Actually, the Russia talk started in the summer, around the time, if I recall, that Seth Rich got offed.
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