Posted on 01/23/2018 9:24:50 AM PST by EdnaMode
Top-ranking Democrats in the House and the Senate are calling on Twitter and Facebook to launch investigations of potential Russian linked accounts pushing for the release of a controversial Congressional memo.
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.) and the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asking that they “provide a public report to Congress and the American public by January 26” on the matter.
Facebook confirmed its receipt of the letter.
The memo in question was drafted by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and is believed by some Republicans to show political bias in the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) probe of potential links between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
Schiff and Feinstein in their letter cited data by the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, which found that Russian bots on Twitter were advocating for legislators to make the memo public.
The senators expressed concern that attempts by Russian actors to influence the release of the memo “are intended to influence congressional action and undermine Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation,” of the possible Trump campaign ties to Russia.
“It is critically important that the Special Counsel’s investigation be allowed to proceed without interference from inside or outside the United States,” the California lawmakers wrote. “That is why we seek your assistance in our efforts to counter Russia’s continuing efforts to manipulate public opinion and undermine American democracy and the rule of law.”
Some GOP lawmakers have called for House Intelligence to release the memo, claiming that it reveals important information about the investigation and highlights surveillance abuses. Other lawmakers, like Schiff, have characterized it as a set of “distorted talking points” which are “completely misleading.”
On Friday, Hamilton 68, a website affiliated with the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy that tracks accounts that it believes to be linked to the Kremlin, found that such accounts were aggressively pushing for the memo’s release.
#ReleaseTheMemo was overwhelmingly the top hashtag tweeted from those accounts for multiple days last week, and the top tweeted link among those Twitter accounts was to a Wikileaks page soliciting the document from anyone who has access to it.
“If these reports are accurate, we are witnessing an ongoing attack by the Russian government through Kremlin-linked social media actors directly acting to intervene and influence our democratic process,” Schiff and Feinstein wrote to Twitter and Facebook.
“This should be disconcerting to all Americans, but especially your companies as, once again, it appears the vast majority of their efforts are concentrated on your platforms.”
This is all a fantasy , Twitter is loaded with bots it’s no big deal.
They act like the movie The Mouse That Roared.
Sorry, but that gambit only worked once.
lol...they come up with a premise and then try to legitimize it.
Right, what Twitter is doing is putting their thumbs on the scales.
First Twitter kills the GOP bots (identified, according to O’Keefe’s sting videos, by KEYWORD chosen by Twitter staff) and calls them Russian.
Then Twitter does nothing against the ShareBlue bots.
So the site becomes another DU, due to human-directed AI.
To what end? If Putin himself posted #Releasethememo, what is gained?
Twitter and Facebook are today the only branches of government the Dems control.
FISA memo panic. Visiting hours at Leavenworth are Fri-Mon and Holidays 8AM 3PM, per their website
Good Lord these people are just freakin nuts! So real Americans would have no interest in the memo, huh? Gotta be russian bots?
Got news for you libtards: It ain’t Russian bots, it’s real, patriotic, red blooded AMERICANS that want to see you all hang for the treason you’ve committed against this country and continue to commit to this very minute. Step out of your lib bubble and see that you are IN THE MINORITY.
Didn't some slimy thug U.S. politician "intervene and influence" (AND interfere) in another country's internal affairs not long ago? My memory fails me...
What are Adam Schitt and Diane Frankenstein afraid of?
Looks to me like Democrats are hiding something. I wonder what it is.
Release the document.
#IamnotaRussianbot
Frankly I’d like to see the Democrat Party declared a criminal organization, and everyone in it put in prison for a long time.
Or executed if need be.
Permit me to laugh
blwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Poor little Democrats being deceived by Russian trolls tagain
permit me to cry
I’m next when the memo is released what’s the next line
It’s all partisan !!!!!
Let’s investigate Big Global Media’s business dealings with foreign governments. Let’s start with CNN.
Like the Russian collusion this too is fantasy. They are continuing their red herring to detract from the real crimes committed by Hillary, Comey, Strozk, Lynch, and Obama. This was the operation from day one, discredit the cantidate and then the presidency once it was figured out she wouldn’t win. Create a false crime and continue pumping it through the media to cover their own. Has anyone seen any evidence the Russians actually hacked the DNC servers? Any at all? We are supposed to believe the word of a corrupted FBI that just because they say it was Russian hacks then it was?
I wish they’d release the damn memos to shut down all this nonsense.
Just more political misdirection.
Democrats are up to their eyeballs in corruption and they are about to be laid bare, but yeah, put out a press release about Russian bots... or something.
I am a Russian Bot!
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