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How an Alt-Right Bot Network Took Down Al Franken
Newsweak aka (DNC Blog) ^ | 2-19-2018 | Nina Burliegh

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 in—and was propelled by—a 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 ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: alfranken; atruestorybro; bots; looneytoons; mediawingofthednc; minnesota; ninaburliegh; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; saturdaynightlive; saturdaynightvile; trump; twitter
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To: tcrlaf

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!


21 posted on 02/19/2018 1:25:21 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: All

This is a transparent effort to get Cernovich banned on Twitter.


22 posted on 02/19/2018 1:25:25 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: RightGeek

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.


23 posted on 02/19/2018 1:26:37 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Luke21

Roy Moore took down Roy Moore - by going on Hantity and essentially saying: “Even if I did, it was still legal.” He never recovered.


24 posted on 02/19/2018 1:28:08 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: tcrlaf

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.


25 posted on 02/19/2018 1:29:55 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: tcrlaf

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.


26 posted on 02/19/2018 1:30:12 PM PST by GOPJ (The 'dead vote' is a byproduct of fraud that votes the people who don't show up.)
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To: tcrlaf

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


27 posted on 02/19/2018 1:32:06 PM PST by z3n
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To: JonPreston

What did Cernovich do to deserve to get banned?


28 posted on 02/19/2018 1:35:48 PM PST by Ambrosia
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To: Socon-Econ

Franken brought himself down, assisted by the ideological environment created to destroy Roy Moore.
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Exactly


29 posted on 02/19/2018 1:38:50 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: tcrlaf

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.”


30 posted on 02/19/2018 1:39:35 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: tcrlaf

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.


31 posted on 02/19/2018 1:40:11 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: tcrlaf

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.


32 posted on 02/19/2018 1:41:25 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: tcrlaf

LOL! His groping hands, and idiocracy of photographing himself, played no part. Hey, I though Newweak no longer existed?


33 posted on 02/19/2018 1:43:52 PM PST by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: Ambrosia

“What did Cernovich do to deserve to get banned?”

Speak inconvenient truth about Democrats.


34 posted on 02/19/2018 1:44:34 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Ambrosia

Check his timeline over the past 48-72 hours. I think he has a live one on the hook.


35 posted on 02/19/2018 1:46:50 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: Eddie01

“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.


36 posted on 02/19/2018 1:47:58 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Death of the MSM - "Because it is my show and I don't want to do that." Jake Tapper)
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To: tcrlaf

JonPrescott is Trump supporter, so asking why he wants him banned.


37 posted on 02/19/2018 1:48:08 PM PST by Ambrosia
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To: JonPreston

Ok... I haven’t paid much attention to Twitter past couple days, just am on and off. Will look at it. Thanks.


38 posted on 02/19/2018 1:49:19 PM PST by Ambrosia
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To: tcrlaf
The woman who was going to fellate Billy boy.
39 posted on 02/19/2018 1:49:55 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Death of the MSM - "Because it is my show and I don't want to do that." Jake Tapper)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

har dee har har! lulz


40 posted on 02/19/2018 1:52:06 PM PST by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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