Posted on 10/01/2020 8:00:33 PM PDT by Mariner
LONDON (Reuters) - The Russian group accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has posed as an independent news outlet to target right-wing social media users ahead of this year’s vote, two people familiar with an FBI probe into the activity told Reuters.
The latest operation centred around a pseudo media organisation called the Newsroom for American and European Based Citizens (NAEBC), which was run by people associated with the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, the sources said.
U.S. prosecutors say the agency played a key role in Russian efforts to sway the 2016 election in favour of President Donald Trump, and Facebook and Twitter exposed a fake left-wing media outlet in September which they said was run by people connected to the organisation.
NAEBC and its activity, which have not been previously reported, now show that Russian attempts to influence U.S. voters ahead of the 2020 election have targeted both sides of the political divide.
The website predominantly focused on U.S. politics and current events, republishing articles from conservative media and paying real Americans to write about politically-sensitive issues. A network of accounts posing as editors and journalists then promoted the articles on social media sites favoured by right-wing users.
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Funny how Time then thought foreign interference in elections was perfectly ok.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out who’s best for America and who’s best for Russia.
Who can be blackmailed, Hillary or Trump?
Which one of them can be bribed to betray America?
Which of them spent their honeymoon in Moscow?
(The answer to all three starts with H.)
So what? Is an ad or political essay written by a Russian any more effective than one written by an American?
The Russians spend 200k on some websites and our politicians spend billions of dollars. Only an idiot like Jimmy “the Weasel” Comey would think this matters.
Unfortunately, there are a bunch of stupid bigoted Russophobia morons among conservatives, they are proud of being liberals’ useful idiots.
ODumbo fooled with
Israeli elections,
What was That called?
No, that’s not true.
American patriots are against communism, and they’re against any form
of corrupt totalitarian regime that replaces a failed communist one.
The bigots are mostly among the progressives.
Never heard of it either, and I am an online news junkie.
Been basically an internet news junkie since well before the last election, political news that is. Know pretty much every right wing site on the web, never heard of Newsroom for American and European Based Citizens (NAEBC)
Are they talking about Fox News?
Go ahead roto Reuters
Beat that dead horse some more.
Talk about the long con.
If it comes from the AP or Reuters, it’s just more fake news
All of those two-faced russophobia lowlifes portray themselves as patriots. John McCain, Liz Cheney, John Bolton,Linda Graham......
They are against corrupt totalitarian regimes? Lol. It reminds me the corrupted totalitarian regimes in Iran, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, China..... that America used to support
“The website predominantly focused on U.S. politics and current events, republishing articles from conservative media and paying real Americans to write about politically-sensitive issues. A network of accounts posing as editors and journalists then promoted the articles on social media sites favoured by right-wing users.”
I fail to see the problem here. Did they post lies? Did they bribe anyone? As far as I’m concerned they are just doing the job our journalists (so called) refuse to do.
Lol. Majority of America’s allies wanted Hillary to win.
Bigoted russophobia conservatives desperately try to participate in the anti-Russia contest organised by liberals (FBI is the judge).
It should be Roto Reuters.
Russia has some search engines that front load our perspective more than any here do
Yes, it should have,
,but I couldn’t gin up enough respect to use TWO capitals
/-)
Bombshell!!!
People have the internet.
Well, thanks to the Democrats, this time the Russians can simply vote in the election.
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