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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.
Well, it must be said that the pedophile in the pizza shop story just about got the owner of the place killed.
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Why is this garbage on Slashdot?
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Absolute garbage reporting. CNN IS FAKE NEWS.
I still read it for the tech stuff, but the obvious shilling for globalist with well selected climate change propaganda and continuing the completely proven as bullshit Russian narrative is not only spreading fake news, it's not even technology fake news.
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The key difference was that every little thing Trump did was held up by the media (and the Republican establishment) as a harbinger of the end of modern civilization if Trump were to get elected.
Which turned out to be what a lot of voters wanted. Every winning candidate wins because of a coalition of voters, but the key to the Trump coalition are people who find the status quo ante to be intolerable, and wanted to see it destroyed. Bannon compared himself to Lenin. Now that component of voters is quite diverse too; not every one of them envisioned the same status quo post. In other words they're not all white supremacists, although Democrats like to cast them as such.
colluding with the DNC on debate prep, colluding with the DNC on subverting Sanders' campaign
Which is not a crime. It's not even against party rules. Have you read the parties' bylaws? I have. If you read carefully you'll see that the national committees are not intended to be neutral and fair. They're *power centers*. The way you deal with them is you seize them. The way you seize them is you court the people who put sweat into the party: who worked their way up from precinct captain to state committee, or who stood for office and won. In other words the party establishment.
Only naive people think the primary process is fair and democratic, or even supposed to be fair. What it is is an attempt to create a hybrid of popular democracy and the old smoke-filled rooms where presidential candidates were selected up until the 1970s.
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You know, it's kinda distressing that you think a political party should control the government anyway.
Shouldn't the people be in control anyway?
Conservatives think that they are smart, but that people are stupid, and therefore shouldn't be in charge of their own destinies. But they're hypocritical and contradictory in every other way too, so why not this one?
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