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FBI Tracked 'Fake News' Believed To Be From Russia On Election Day (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: The FBI monitored social media on Election Day last year in an effort to track a suspected Russian disinformation campaign utilizing "fake news," CNN has learned. In the months leading up to Election Day, Twitter and Facebook were the feeding grounds for viral "news" stories floating conspiracies and hoaxes, many aimed at spreading negative false claims about Hillary Clinton. On Election Day, dozens of agents and analysts huddled at a command center arrayed with large monitoring screens at the FBI headquarters in Washington watching for security threats, according to multiple sources. That included analysts monitoring cyber threats, after months of mounting Russian intrusions targeting every part of the US political system, from political parties to policy think-tanks to state election systems. On this day, there was also a group of FBI cyber and counterintelligence analysts and investigators watching social media. FBI analysts had identified social media user accounts behind stories, some based overseas, and the suspicion was that at least some were part of a Russian disinformation campaign, according to two sources familiar with the investigation.
As consumers of news, how can we be sure that this news story isn't an example of "fake news"?
The article says
The FBI declined to comment for this story.
And it repeatedly includes stuff like
Sources say
and
according to multiple sources
and
according to two sources
and (once again!)
according to multiple sources
The lack of concrete details and information leaves me very uneasy. It makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to independently verify what is being claimed.
Should I play it safe and assume that this article may just be "fake news" until proven otherwise?
CNN and the DNC have been claiming that Russia was responsible for John Podesta's falling for a phishing scam, which gave hackers access to his account which contained information that lead to further DNC hacks. How can the Russians be responsible for the foolishness of a single American? It's time for real facts, not the ongoing BS, which is repeated enough that it becomes circular and self sustaining.
Had the news been impartial, Clinton easily wins, but the media couldn't help themselves and made the whole system look corrupt and pre-planned.
The RNC couldnt even keep Trump from getting the nomination, so its not the whole system thats corrupt and pre-planned.
The DNC on the other hand....
The Democrats are better because some of their delegates are SUPER!!!
"His name was James Damore."
And yet more Americans voted for Hilary.
I know what the budget is at my church, and no, it does not go to abusing people. Giving out food, fuel help, rent help, and so on. One of the food efforts gives out food to 50-100 needy families every week (yes, they can and do come back that often).
If you want to look for an abusive "charity", I read the Clinton Foundation keeps 94% of money it gets for "administrative expenses" (Clinton pockets). No comparison...
It's only a 100% chance once the ballots have been counted. Up until election day (or at least a few days before), Clinton still had the better odds, but she did not enjoy perfect odds. You do understand the nature of probability, right?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I'm coming to the realization that the Democrats are actually corrupt(*).
I was reading about the DOJ slush fund [breitbart.com](**) and it struck me just how deep and insidious the corruption has been in this country.
Why not Teapot Dome, Credit Mobiler, Iran-Contra, Enron, and Bernie Madoff?
This is paired with the IRS selecting conservative charities for intense scrutiny
And liberal ones. Who both needed to file proper reports to meet their non-profit status.
Even Congress had to admit it was all proper in the end.
11 California counties have more registered voters than adults
You can't blame California for Steve Mnuchin, Tiffany Trump, Jared Kushner, and Steven Bannon, who nonetheless, remind us, it's not a crime. Despite false claims otherwise.
And let us not forget after the election, leftists pleaded with the EC delegates to be faithless,
I pleased with the EC delegates to quit myself, it might be the only thing that gets us past that broken system.
then pleaded with the supreme court to invalidate the results,
No, the Supreme Court acted in 2000, unlawfully overriding state courts for their own partisan gain.
then pleaded with the U.S. military to step in and prevent the inauguration (wtf?),
Like those massive crowds of people that Trump (falsely) claimed were there, huh?
leaked secret and sensitive information - not to expose crimes, but for political slander,
Oh wait, you mean when they leaked Trump's fake pictures of Time Magazine covers, right?
and rioted for weeks
No, that was Chicago celebrating winning the World Series.
For example, Hillary made no statements condemning the riots,
Also she didn't condemn the sugar plum fairy.
and most of the left blamed the rioting on Trump.
Trump called for it himself.
blocking reasonable voter registration,
No, that was the GOP.
and suppressing the military vote.
sure man
There's a sub-conversation on the net that holds that the Democratic party *won't survive* once all the corruption has been rooted out.
Sure man, and what else are they discussing? Why they can't find the dead bodies in the Pizza Parlor?
The Democratic ideals are so far from what people want that they require all the extra boost they get from a tilted playing field.
Is that why they keep getting more voters?
I'm not sure I believe that bit about the Democratic party not surviving, but after reading about the DOJ thing, and knowing the level of effort we're putting into the Russia probe while ignoring some seemingly obvious evidence [dailysignal.com] on the Democratic side, it makes me wonder...
Actually, the Republicans in Congress are still busy chasing their tails over Hillary.
I gues
False. Provably so. How many electors are there? HINT: It is orders of magnitude lower than 2.86 million.
President Trump won the election with 56% of the vote for President. SOURCE: US Constitution.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!