Posted on 02/19/2018 12:56:40 PM PST by tcrlaf
White nationalist provocateurs, a pair of fake news sites, an army of Twitter bots and other cyber tricks helped derail Democratic Senator Al Franken last year, new research shows.
While everyone has been focused on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election to support Donald Trump, the Franken takedown originated inand was propelled bya strategic online campaign with digital tentacles reaching to, of all places, Japan.
Analysts have now mapped out how Hooters pinup girl and lad-mag model Leeann Tweeden's initial accusation against Franken became effective propaganda after right-wing black ops master Roger Stone first hinted at the allegation.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
It’s nazis and japanese bots I tell you! It had nothing to do with well publicized photos of Al Franken trying to grope a woman who was unconscious! Nothing to do with that at all!
This is a transparent effort to get Cernovich banned on Twitter.
Apparently the “bots” made him do that.
Amazing the ridiculous crap the Left comes up with. Many of them are lying, but the rest actually believe the crap they say.
Roy Moore took down Roy Moore - by going on Hantity and essentially saying: “Even if I did, it was still legal.” He never recovered.
Sounds like Nina doesn’t believe the Accuser Is Always Right approach of the feminist Left. Tsk tsk. In fact, the biggest push to unseat Franken came from an army of shrieking pussy-hatted harridans that were glad to do the job. They didn’t need much urging. And in Franken’s case, they were justified.
People all over the world were creating sites and talking about Trump... and anyone else who would generate ‘hits’... so they could pull in some cash.
What is paid for you get more of... Seems a lot of the incentive was ‘profit’ not politics.
So, when the “mainstream” news media takes down a politician, it’s first amendment freedom of the press.
When a lot of people on new media get together and make something go viral, the main stream media tries to claim it’s all some kind of systematic cheat.
Basically, the will of the people is cheating. The will of the press is king.
Yeah, I get the fact that the story was about bot farming and buying hitcounts and popularity on social media and all those things, but bot farms can only do so much. If you tried to prop up a lame story with no legs, it would get a quick jolt from the bots and then fall on it’s face soon after.
Al Franken story was a story because it was a story. The main stream media is just pissed because they can’t choose what gets suppressed anymore
What did Cernovich do to deserve to get banned?
Franken brought himself down, assisted by the ideological environment created to destroy Roy Moore.
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Exactly
my fav quote in the article: “But since the 2016 election, arguably lost due to the right’s superior utilization of darker online strategies, the left is not known to have created or mobilized its own fake cyber army to amplify its viewpoint.”
Free speech is always a problem for violent leftists thugs. They are forever angling to oppress it.
And they are succeeding thanks to gutless Republican leaders.
Not to mention the ballot cheating that placed Franken in the senate in the first place. The ballots must have been manipulated by BOTS, yeah that’s the ticket! First it was Russia, Russia, Russia, then Hillary started with the bot thing, now it’s bots, bots, bots. This is the new leftist meme they have been telegraphing this for a while until they all had their bot talking points in line, now Mueller just added to it.
LOL! His groping hands, and idiocracy of photographing himself, played no part. Hey, I though Newweak no longer existed?
“What did Cernovich do to deserve to get banned?”
Speak inconvenient truth about Democrats.
Check his timeline over the past 48-72 hours. I think he has a live one on the hook.
“The DNC looking to destroy Roy More and eventually President Trump took down Al Franken.”
As well as Hollywood and a part of the MSM.
JonPrescott is Trump supporter, so asking why he wants him banned.
Ok... I haven’t paid much attention to Twitter past couple days, just am on and off. Will look at it. Thanks.
har dee har har! lulz
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