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WashPost Compares Pro-Trump Teenagers to ‘Russian Trolls,’ Gets Them Banned from Social Media
Breitbart ^ | September 16 2020 | ALLUM BOKHARI

Posted on 09/16/2020 12:09:36 PM PDT by knighthawk

Conservative digital activists were smeared as behaving like “Russian trolls” by a recent article in the Washington Post. The writer also made sure to reach out to both Twitter and Facebook to get the teenage activists banned.

The article goes to great lengths — even interviewing PhDs — to compare the teenagers to “bots,” even though the article presents no evidence that any accounts were not operated by humans, and to “Russian trolls,” even though the article acknowledges that the people in charge of the accounts were Americans.

The article also casts normal behavior of political activists, like reading from a shared list of talking points, as somehow unusual. The Washington Post labels the act of paying people to repeat political messages — a standard feature of virtually all major political campaigns — as “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; bidenvoters; facebook; mediabias; twitter; wapo
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1 posted on 09/16/2020 12:09:36 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Sounds like they were activists.

Is that not allowed for Americans?


2 posted on 09/16/2020 12:10:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Drew68

For your interest.


3 posted on 09/16/2020 12:11:19 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: knighthawk

these are publishers who deserve lawsuits FOREVER
for this.


4 posted on 09/16/2020 12:13:38 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: knighthawk

They are just people on social media. Reacting to public posts. WTF!


5 posted on 09/16/2020 12:14:46 PM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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To: knighthawk

Washing Compost lives up to its reputation again. Bezos better dump that rag and stick to building businesses before his politics bites] his butt and folks start boycotting Amazon.


6 posted on 09/16/2020 12:15:53 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (Biden's)
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To: Diogenesis

“these are publishers who deserve lawsuits FOREVER
for this.”

Class action.


7 posted on 09/16/2020 12:16:27 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Cloward-Piven is finally upon us.)
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To: BenLurkin
Is that not allowed for Americans?

No.

Shut up and pay your taxes and be happy about it.

Or else.

8 posted on 09/16/2020 12:17:36 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: KC_Lion

And put your F’n mask on!...


9 posted on 09/16/2020 12:21:05 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: knighthawk

Don’t you know? We’re all Russian bots and trolls. Putin owes us a helluva lot of money for helping his “puppet” Trump. These clowns have lost all sense of reality!


10 posted on 09/16/2020 12:21:43 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: EEGator

And bake the cake!


11 posted on 09/16/2020 12:22:53 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: knighthawk

Do left wing journalist know they are corrupt and dishonest? If so... How do they sleep at night?


12 posted on 09/16/2020 12:31:38 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: knighthawk

FB and Twitter need to be turned into “Utilities.”


13 posted on 09/16/2020 12:37:55 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security! (Ironic, huh?))
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To: knighthawk

Liberals and these liberal sites are terrified of the truth

what terrifies them even more is that the new young generation coming up can’t stand them !!!!

and is out right attacking them !!!

and these kids have conservative principles this really terrifies them!

Twitter and Facebook have no idea how stupid it is to ban anybody

Especially kids


14 posted on 09/16/2020 12:47:33 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again)
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To: knighthawk

Sheryl Sandberg, a rabid leftist - not Zuckerberg - is the driving force behind facebook.


15 posted on 09/16/2020 12:47:52 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Truthoverpower

Conservativism is the new rebellion. The Collectivism (group think) of the New Democrat party (the Vanguard Party) does not allow for individualism or creativity.


16 posted on 09/16/2020 12:53:29 PM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: knighthawk

The WP is free to write just about whatever they want as journalists. But for the author to “reach out” to try to get these political opponents banned is not journalism, it is political activism. And this is not an isolated case it others like it have been reported in the recent past.

But we already knew these places have become overrun with politically partisan leftist shills. So much so that many middle of the road and right leaning journalists have been forced out through intimidation and open hostility by their co-workers.

Bring on the lawsuits!


17 posted on 09/16/2020 1:06:52 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: EEGator; KC_Lion

And stay inside your home when the protesters harass you, and lose your job and livelihood never to be able to work again, and maybe we won’t open a wide-ranging criminal investigation into your entire life.


18 posted on 09/16/2020 1:09:07 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: dowcaet

Don’t you know? We’re all Russian bots and trolls. Putin owes us a helluva lot of money for helping his “puppet” Trump. These clowns have lost all sense of reality!
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Alright, you’ve gotten to my conscience; I must confess that I’m a secret Russian Agent and have been for more than 20 years. Way back then I was assigned by my then employer to entertain a young Russian woman who visited us as an authorized agent of the Russian Government. I’m never going to live down the humiliation. BTW, she was a really enjoyable, interesting person, proving I really got corrupted.


19 posted on 09/16/2020 1:59:31 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Diogenesis; Travis McGee; LucyT; Liz; GregNH; bitt; timestax; MeneMeneTekelUpharsin; Bon mots; ...
Well I want to login into Gayhoo mail the other day, using a secure connection which changes I.P. addresses every time you use it.

I was greeted with a login in........................Cyrillic or some version of Russian letting.

These d@mned Democrat fools are committed to their lies and their delusions, if nothing else.

Because a changing I.P. address can only mean.......Russian Troll, of course. If you're a delusional Democrat, that is.

His I.P. address changed? Coincidence? I think not!


20 posted on 09/16/2020 2:18:24 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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