Who do those Russkies think they are, meddling in our elections?
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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a. the russians did not create anti-hillary meme’s, they were already out there, no matter what sources used them
b. creation and use of social media accounts is not a factual statement of whether or not those accounts were any critical mass of “opinion shaping” out there.
c. I do not think that anything the Russians might have done altered opinions of actual voters - I think Trump’s voters already existed in number everywhere; no matter and regardless of how any “Russian” social media posts REFLECTED - not “created” - their views.
Who do those Russkies think they are, meddling in our elections?
There is no confusion that Russia was never in US interests despite what Obama was telling us. What is the confusion when a prostitute is claiming her pimp is nice while everyone knows he blackmails and exploits her?
LOL!
That description of meddling describes the Democratic left totally.... so we could say that Trump is the real victim of Russia interference, and not Hillary! In fact, The Panama Papers prove it was Hillary and Podesta, who laundered money with Russian Banks....hmmm
Can somebody cite the law that was broken by them doing so?
Your comment makes zero sense....to what are you replying?
What does not make sense? How many whores out there have not defended their pimp when everyone knew he was exploiting her and humiliating her, keeping her down every chance?
This is the relationship between Hillary and Putin, with her always doing resets with Russia when we all know they are there to screw us and her, keeping her down even with pseudo-Trump facebook posts against her. It is a mean for them to also convert her to them, saying how her familly is against her and ridicule her.
This is really boyscout spy 101.
Hillary and Podesta did collaborate with Russian Banks with money laundering, all proven by THE PANAMA PAPERS... They should both should be in prison.
“When you begin to see pink goo, it’s time to stop beating a dead horse” bert
I always thought there was something wrong with that video.
You think it's fake?
This article is full of allegations and is bereft of evidence.
I’m not sure, I can’t put my finger on it.
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