To hear Newsweek whining about Twitter Bots, after getting Obama ELECTED TWICE using them via Soros Orgs and MoveOn groups to manipulated perceived opinion, is nothing short of astonishing.
And Blaming the mysterious "WHITE NATIONALISTS!!" is just sauce for the Goose.
Just how stoned out of your freakin' mind do you have to be to come up with this crap?
Nina Burleigh was the “journalist” who said she would happily don kneepads and give Bill Clinton a BJ to keep abortion legal.
Franken brought himself down, assisted by the ideological environment created to destroy Roy Moore.
So who took down Roy Moore?
Has this slug resigned yet? Or is he still working out his options, hoping this will all fall off the radar?
who the heck uses the word “provocateur” ?
Nina Burleigh - offered BJ Clinton a BJ.
The most difficult part of the operation was getting the Russian Bots into Al Franken’s mind to make him take that incriminating photo. Diabolical!
Republican goes down in scandal = justice, he had it coming to him, the free press did it’s job.
Democrat goes down in scandal = he is a victim of sinister right-wing Russian bots.
Al Franken, the candidate who FEELS for YOU.
That dang Russian bot network must have been down for a battery charge or something, and the Alt-right one lending a hand.
Amazing the lengths these media whores will go to cover up the crimes of demonrats.
The problem isn’t “twitter-bots”. It’s “liberal-bots” (and “conserva-bots”) who’ve been trained to believe whatever they read/hear rather than think for themselves.
If people on social media had a clue and applied independent thought, “twitter-bots” would be useless. The same problem we’ve always had with “money in politics”. If people won’t think for themselves, politicians can buy ads/votes - no amount of campaign reform will change it.
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.
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
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.