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Twitter Suspends Hundreds of Accounts Linked To Russian Operatives (usatoday.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from USA Today: Twitter says it found some 200 accounts linked to the same Russian groups that bought $100,000 worth of ads on Facebook to sow political unrest and manipulate U.S. voters during the presidential election. The Twitter accounts, which were taken down over the last month, were linked to 470 accounts and pages that Facebook traced to the International Research Agency, a Russian troll farm. According to a blog post released by Twitter Thursday after briefing staffers on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, the groups on Facebook had 22 Twitter accounts. Twitter found an additional 179 accounts connected to those 22. Twitter also shared information on Russian news outlet Russia Today, or RT, which has ties to the Kremlin, according to U.S. intelligence agencies.
I'm rather curious about this as well. I haven't been following this thing very closely, so in short: What did they do that was illegal or against the ToS? Am I, as a Danish citizen living in Germany, gonna get banned from Twitter if I post, with no context, that I think you should vote against Trump in 2020?
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My favorite Russian Facebook accounts are the ones promoting the secession of Texas. Seriously, they're hysterically funny.
https://extranewsfeed.com/how-...
They even paid for a pro-secession delegation from Texas to go to Russia, where they could learn about true political freedom.
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Because it's been illegal for almost half a century.
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It's like McCarthy is back to switch the lights on and the cockroaches are running for cover. We've got to find and exterminate the Russians!
Are we SURE we want to do this folks? This kind of thing really doesn't work out so well... The Salem witch trials, McCarthy's search for communists, they all turned into blots on our history. If we are really out there shaming anybody and everybody who has any kind of real or imagined connection to the Russians, we will find that anybody and everybody will be subject to scrutiny. Is that where you want to go?
Also, be warned that this is how the Nazi's got started politically and turned the whole "protect us from the Russians" idea into a cottage industry that brought us into WW2. Think long and hard about the politics in play here and who keeps pushing this. We are on dangerous ground when Twitter and Facebook feel it necessary to do this kind of thing to save face.
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Formerly, winning the hearts and minds of the populace at election time was the prerogative of the wealthy and influential, as powerful media barons and political machines dominated the landscape.
What we could be witnessing is the democratization of propaganda.
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Okay. Am I prohibited from purchasing ads from US media companies? If so, why?
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Because it's been illegal for almost half a century.
How so?
First, you cannot stop them. Our laws don't apply on foreign soil. What the Russians do from over there is not going to stop if we make it illegal.
Second, I believe that you are talking about foreign participation in our elections. Where candidates and campaigns may not knowingly ask for or accept *resources* (money, services) from foreign sources, that's about as far as the law actually goes.
The big problem for your "It's been illegal" is that you cannot curb free speech within the country, and that means you cannot stop foreign interests from supporting local causes THROUGH citizens any more than you can stop PAC's from buying ads.
So Accepting material support from foreign countries IS and has been illegal for campaigns and candidates, you cannot stop foreign involvement.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The provision regarding foreign interference in elections was upheld by SCOTUS in 2012. See Bluman, et al., v. Federal Election Commission.
https://thecaucus.blogs.nytime...
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I'm not a fan of the government pressuring companies to do things. But in this case, Twitter does not seem to be "complying with USG desires." Despite the message or the actual groups behind any campaign, they abused Twitter and violated the TOS. It certainly looks shady. However, if you appropriately weigh both sides, twitter isn't acting outside of the scope of their TOS and how they have chosen to enforce it.
I am interested to see how this pans out.
OMG facts!
Unfortunately, as dollars have been ripped away from historical news organizations where educated professionals vetted sources, researched stories and were held accountable; we now throw billions at the immediate gratification "like" without a clue to what's true and false - only what "feels good". Critical reasoning is for the most part a thing of the past...wait, who predicted this?
oh, ya... this was written in 1995 - 32 years ago:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
---Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Many of them misrepresented their identity in order to deceive.
For excite, "AntiFa Boston" accidentally posted location data on a tweet recently (Moscow, Russia). The account is a troll stoking up division by pretending to be someone they are not, which is against the ToS.
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Yes, if they are meant to influence an election.
Don't ask me. Ask Congress (who passed the law) and Richard Nixon (who signed the law) and the Supreme Court (who upheld the law's provisions regarding foreign influence in elections).
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Here. Hint: scroll down to section c.
We have at least two congressional investigations and an independent prosecutor who are looking into that "knowingly ask for" part, as we speak.
Stay tuned.
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Sorry; that should be section e.
If Russians want you to vote for a certain candidate, why does this matter?
Because it's been illegal for almost half a century.
Uhhh, no, it has never been illegal for any Russian to want me to vote for a certain candidate, any more than it has been illegal for any German or Brit or Canadian or South African or ...
It may have been illegal for that Russian to donate to specific candidates, or to buy advertising for specific candidates, but that's a lot more than just him wanting me to vote a certain way. And it is still a more than him tweeting his electoral preferences.
The twitter accounts that were deleted weren't buying twitter advertising, at least nothing like that was claimed in the summary. They were connected to Facebook accounts that may have bought Facebook advertising, but were any of those ads in violation of campaign finance laws? Isn't Facebook then liable for that violation, knowing those campaign finance laws exist?
Here's the kicker in this story: "Twitter also shared information on Russian news outlet Russia Today, or RT, which has ties to the Kremlin, according to U.S. intelligence agencies."
This is often hard for US residents to understand. We have VOA operated by the US government, but VOA is prohibited from operating within the US (as is Radio Marti aimed at Cuba). Other than that, there is no government operated radio or television (government funded, yes, but not operated). Other governments DO use radio and television as a way of spreading government propaganda on a regular basis.
It should be no surprise that Russia Today is a voice of the Russian government, as was Iraqi State TV, and many, if not all of the other "state TV" operations in the world. I swear, there were people during the lead up to the Iraqi operations that saw Iraqi TV and thought it was a true representation of the thoughts of the Iraqi people and not just the thoughts of Saddam.
Engadget is calling the accounts "bots". Do you consider a bot to be an operative?
If you are a foreign national you cannot legally contribute to a candidate for federal office.
So weak and witless are the Americans that you can get them to change their minds, get them to do your bidding, and get them to completely f*ck up their country and freedoms. All it takes is a few well-placed advertisements and tweets.
...do that to all the ISIS ones.
The last time I checked, a tweet costs exactly $0, and as such cannot be considered a donation to any campaign.
Should we also try to claim that it is illegal for any foreign press to publish any information that is detrimental (or supportive) of any US political candidate? It costs them a LOT more than $0 to do that, and if a free tweet is illegal, then a front page article in the Suddeutsche Zeitung must certainly be, as well. Does US campaign finance law apply to foreign companies and agencies operating outside the US? Wow.
But campaign finance is a lot more than just a Russian wanting someone to vote a certain way.
If Russians can't donate directly, and they want to, they WILL find a work around...
If nothing else, they'll simply send Buddhist monks to Washington and throw an "outreach event".
Great example of the kind of gaslighting I was taking about the other day.
Of course if it was a parody/troll their reaction, deleting the tweet and then their account, seems a little bit odd.
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It matters because Hillary lost.
If Hillary had won, nobody would care. Anyone crying about the Russians buying pro-Hillary, left leaning ads (which they did) wouldn't be given one second of airtime or one byte of blog space.
GTFO with your affiliate link spam.
and 50 thousand dollars just wow.
Number of active Twitter accounts 328 million
https://www.statista.com/st...
Number of tweets per day 500 million. 7700 per second so far today.
http://www.internetlivestat......
1 billion in digital political advertising in 2016
https://www.forbes.com/site...
Twitter was deliberately not carrying advertising supporting Trump
https://www.recode.net/2016...
I recall other incidents but ehh
Nobody said it was illegal for them to "want" you to vote for Donald Trump.
The illegal part comes if they actively get involved with the US election (usually via money). That's what seems to have happened here.
Yes, that's why they're falling all over themselves cooperating with law enforcement and congressional committees.
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They missed one...
https://xkcd.com/1494/
Protip: Laws tend to target behavior but not exact actions; we employ judges and concepts like animus nocendi to decide if actions are criminal or innocent. Otherwise, just as you say, people would find 'workarounds' for every law and spend their days creatively robbing and killing each other.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
We have at least two congressional investigations and an independent prosecutor who are looking into that "knowingly ask for" part, as we speak.
Stay tuned.
Knowingly ask for or receive MONEY or something having value (such as phone services or rent free office space) is what the FEC rules don't allow. Pretty much if money (or something with monitory value) wasn't asked for or received from the Russians by the Trump Campaign, there is nothing that violates the law. So far, I've not seen any hard evidence of money being asked for or received, but we certainly don't have all the facts.
Of course Mueller may have a different perspective after fully investigating all the facts, but I'd not hold your breath while you wait for that result. Until Mueller is done, neither you nor I know anything for sure...
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Except I don't care what you think. I'm all for throwing political correctness, feminism, socialism, diversism, oh and faggotry out. If Russia werepaying to help make that happen, I'd say Amerika blagodarit vas, America thanks you. Spasibo bolshoy, Rossiya, thank you very much Russia.
However one thing is for sure, the Americans have plans for the coming presidential elections in Russia 2018 and are backing obvious scum like Navalny. They are well aware that the Americans will try to influence and manipulate the elections to get their homosexual into office.
...than Twitter's gone too. The Orange Emperor's tweets probably drive like high single-digits in both traffic and Q-scores for Twitter. Without him, they're more hosed than they already were.
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I'm rather curious about this as well. I haven't been following this thing very closely, so in short: What did they do that was illegal
If they paid money for ads in support of or against a particular political candidate, they were in violation of Title 52 United States Code Sec. 30121. The constitutionality of this statute was challenged on First Amendment grounds, but the U.S. Supreme Court, in refusing to hear an appeal, let stand a ruling by a federal court of appeals that found the statute to be enforceable.
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
If you were proven to be spreading false political information (like Pizzagate) among multiple shadow accounts - that violates the terms for Twitter.
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Nobody said it was illegal for them to "want" you to vote for Donald Trump.
Reread what you replied to, including the quotes.
Knowingly ask for or receive MONEY or something having value (such as phone services or rent free office space) is what the FEC rules don't allow. Pretty much if money (or something with monitory value) wasn't asked for or received from the Russians by the Trump Campaign, there is nothing that violates the law.
That's absolutely wrong. Title 52 U.S.C. 30121 (a)(1)(C) says "It shall be unlawful for a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make an expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication." It doesn't matter if Trump's campaign was involved or not. If the Russians bought ads that mention the names of either or both candidates for the purposes of supporting one of the candidates then they have broken the law.
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
Contributing to a campaign is not the same as expressing an opinion or taking out ads on how a US citizen should vote. Indeed it is hard to see how you can prevent the latter given freedom of speech since ads are really nothing more than a megaphone: they allow your opinion to travel further and reach more people.
It might be unwelcome involvement but then so was Obama's intervention in the Brexit referendum (which backfired spectacularly, unfortunately) so you can hardly blame other countries for the same behaviour as your former president.
The Russians did nothing different from what Obama did with getting involved in the Brexit referendum. So if you are going to blame the Russians for the outcome of your last election does that mean the UK can blame the US for the outcome of the Brexit referendum? If you want countries like Russia to stop getting involved in your elections - which I completely agree is wrong - it might be nice for the US government to stop doing it too.
If you are defending Russian inteligence operations agains tthe US, you are a fucking traitor. I don't give a shit how republican you are, or how conservative you are or how much you love fucking your woman with American Flag comdoms, you are a god damn traitor who should be shot.
So, for a person who pretty much boycotts both services and so honesty does not know, are these services barring the viewing of the content posted by these accounts?
Personally I think once something like this is found out, the services should keep most of the content up, mark the content as fraudulent with big red overlay images, put litte red warnings on the avatar of every comment ever posted by them on a page, and undelete any posts they still have that the account posted and then deleted. It's in the public interest to be able to examine the activity of these accounts in detail, and make up their own minds.
Someone had to do it.
That level of concern for the rule of law officially qualifies you to be a Republican congressman.
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Remember this as well...
The DNC literally rigged a national primary election to get the result they wanted.
Hillary Clinton took Millions$ in foreign donations for her campaign.
Hillary's campaign colluded with multiple media outlets, telling which stories to run, when, and getting editorial control.
Obama administration was literally wiretapping Trump's campaign manager DURING the election.
But we go batshit crazy over $100k of facebook ads? Really. Are liberals literally this fucking stupid now?
Answer: Yes they are
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American propaganda about Russian click bait, this from a click bait article. Everyone does it, it is really annoying and this click bait rubbish should be kerbed but the bullshit propaganda and the silly modding, is too much fun to just let go. They are convincing no one of nothing, only the idiots who already buy into it and accept it, one great big ole circle jerk. Hey propagandist idiot, you know what the number one biggest indicater of a government propagandist is, FIRST POST MORON, yeah your are sitting their waiting as a professional propagandist to get first post because it makes you stand out and look fucking stupid. You are meant to be more subtle, you know trying to trick people, use guile and not be idiotically arrogant.
It's de rigueur for paid PR twonks to camp out forums and be first posters, no one buys it, it is super recognisable, only arrogance and stupidity keep it going. Owhhh look, we got first post, everyone will believe what we say, ohhh ahhh. Lets see the ads and who paid for them, the lame arse click bait stories about lame arse click bait ads. That the US government now plays the click bait game is just pathetic but too be expected and it just makes the US look worse and worse. The whole world sees this, not just the idiotic US market and the US is losing support globally as a result but keep playing your idiot games, it is really fun to poke holes in it and in the US deep state and shadow government egos.
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As I said, the "want" part is not illegal. The purchasing of campaign ads and providing material support to the Trump campaign is illegal. That was the "this" in his question, "why does this matter?"
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As I said, the "want" part is not illegal. The purchasing of campaign ads and providing material support to the Trump campaign is illegal.
That's what I said.
That was the "this" in his question, "why does this matter?"
It is pretty clear that the antecedent was intended to be "Russians want you to vote for a certain candidate", because that is the only thing that appears in the quote, both when you quoted it and when I did. I cannot assume mysterious invisible antecedents apply when there is a perfectly good one right there in the first clause of the sentence.
And when you argue with me about what I said and then claim that's what you said originally, you only highlight the problem. Why are you arguing with me if what I said is what you thought you said?
If the Russians bought ads that mention the names of either or both candidates for the purposes of supporting one of the candidates then they have broken the law.
Oh my God, Russians living in Russia have broken US laws. Behead them. Oh, wait, they are Russians living in Russia. Doesn't matter, let's make sure US law is applied to everyone on the planet, it is, after all, our Manifest Destiny. To control the planet. Isn't it?
On the other hand, Facebook knowingly accepted the money for those ads, but they seem to still have their heads. Does taking the money for an illegal act and then giving the congress copies of the illegal ads let them off the hook?
And then, what do we do with all the foreign press that carried articles and other material either beneficial or detrimental to specific candidates? Do we behead the newspaper editors and publishers for violating US law? My goodness, how can we be decent people and allow all this lawbreaking to take place all over the world?
It doesn't matter if Trump's campaign was involved or not.
Of course it matters if the Trump campaign was involved or not. Here: "11 CFR 110.20(g) Solicitation, acceptance, or receipt of contributions and donations from foreign nationals. No person shall knowingly solicit, accept, or receive from a foreign national any contribution or donation prohibited by paragraphs (b) through (d) of this section. " "Knowingly" is a pretty relevant word there. And note that "electioneering communications" (i.e., ads) are prohibited by (e), while the prohibition on receiving "donations" covers only (b) through (d). It is thus not even a question whether Trump's campaign "knowingly" accepted the ads since they are not prohibited from doing so.
I'm wondering exactly what you expected the Trump campaign to do when Russians "bought ads" or tweeted stuff. Should the campaign be subject to prosecution for acts they do not and cannot control? Should someone in the campaign go to prison for things that they may never even see, much less have done?
Classic, what is your wish young sir a dingbat pin or a bozo button ?
... people would find 'workarounds' for every law and spend their days creatively robbing and killing each other.
They do a pretty good job of that already.
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Oh my God, Russians living in Russia have broken US laws. Behead them. Oh, wait, they are Russians living in Russia.
You don't think the U.S. should investigate crimes against the U.S. just because they were committed abroad? It doesn't mean they'll ask for extradition or even lay charges, but if U.S. laws are broken, the justice department has an obligation to investigate. That's their job.
And then, what do we do with all the foreign press that carried articles and other material either beneficial or detrimental to specific candidates? Do we behead the newspaper editors and publishers for violating US law?
Don't know why you keep going on about beheading. The penalty is a fine. And there is an exception in this law for journalism.
It doesn't matter if Trump's campaign was involved or not.
Of course it matters if the Trump campaign was involved or not. Here: "11 CFR 110.20(g) Solicitation, acceptance, or receipt of contributions and donations from foreign nationals...
Yes, of course. What I meant was it doesn't matter for the purposes of deciding Russian culpability. Of course, if Trump or his campaign was involved it matters as far as his culpability goes. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
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So if I post under a fake Twitter account that you're a raging pedophile and catfucker, calling you out by name and warning your neighbors to keep their kids and cats away from you, that's like totally just parody, right?
I've never people more dedicated to trying to avoid the obvious; that they were duped by a dedicated and elaborate propaganda campaign by Russia to assist Donald Trump in getting elected than the alt-right.
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That's why God invented threaded conversations. So you could follow along with the conversation and keep up.
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That's why God invented threaded conversations.
And God invented "quoting" so you could quote the things that you are replying to, so that context would not be lost when parent articles are not easily tracked. Being explicit in what you are replying to is a skill, I know. Slashdot does very poorly at showing parents that are below threshold, and that should be considered, too. Sometimes parents are never shown, and are almost never shown in proper relationship when they are.
Real men set their threshold at -1.
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It matters because Hillary lost.
If Hillary had won, nobody would care. Anyone crying about the Russians buying pro-Hillary, left leaning ads (which they did) wouldn't be given one second of airtime or one byte of blog space.
Citation needed from a reputable source, not some neo-nazi piece of shit that you've shoved your head up their ass. If there was even a slight hint of this with ANY credible evidence.... hell, even a remote sidewhisper from conspiracy theory dipshits on the right... it'd be all over fauxnews 24/7; BUT IT'S NOT.
So, lets be real clear here.... YOU find it perfectly fine for RUSSIA to UNDERMINE the USA. YOU are a FUCKING TRAITOR.... on top of being a worthless fucking liar.
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So two hundred twitter and facebook accounts swayed the USA presidential election by spending 100,000USD on political ads. This is why Hillary Clinton lost, and not because she forgot to fight in the battleground states or because her discourse did not address the concerns of the worker class Americans. Mmokay.
Ah yes, another stupider than fuck anon coward.
You're conflating government oppressing a political group for a speculative reason (mind you, literally like the NAZI's did in WWII. The first group of people Hitler had shipped to camps were the Socialists and Unionists), and the investigation of ACTUAL CRIMES committed by a non-friendly state sponsor.
I get it, you're just too fucking stupid to see the difference.
Russian apologists are traitors. You are assisting an outside state entity harming the USA. Stupidity isn't an excuse.
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Broham - look out! There's a Nazi hiding under your bed!!
How did Facebook determine that the accounts were associated with the International Research Agency? IP addresses? I can't believe the Russians didn't use tor or some form of VPN to disguise their location. And 179+22 accounts doesn't sound like a lot. I would have expected tens of thousands of accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.
Could Facebook visibly flag posts coming from a VPN or tor exit node or known troll farm?
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
"Parody" is the default excuse for any and all bad behaviour now. Marching down the street with a swastika flag is just "parodying" Nazis and laughing at people who are upset over "just a symbol". Stealing cars is just a parody of stupid criminals, Trump is just a parody of the US president...
And if you question it, then you are the delusional idiot who can't take a joke, even though there is no joke and they are totally sincere.
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I find it perfectly fine for Russia, or anyone, to tell the truth.
Qatar? Qatar? I've seen a lot of face-palm level deflection on this issue already, but this is a new one. Qatar! Give me a few minutes to get some popcorn, but then please explain what Qatar has to do with the price of butter in Paris, let alone fact that the US democratically elected a horror clown as president.
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Ok, I'm ready. So you're saying Qatar funded some propagandists? Details please? And who are these Dem support[er]s wanting a worse relationship with Russia? Why? Why does this concern Qatar? Please explain.
They didn't.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
The biggest troll account is @realdonaldtrump. Long overdue to shut that one down!
You mean like the Saudies and the Clinton Foundation?
Yes, if they are meant to influence an election
Not as simple an answer as that. Under 52 US Code 30121 - Contributions and donations by foreign nationals the law states:
(a) Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for—
(1) a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make—
(A) a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election;
(B) a contribution or donation to a committee of a political party; or
(C) an expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication (within the meaning of section 30104(f)(3) of this title); or
The section that applies to taking out an ad would be (a)(1)(C) - electioneering communication. Note it says within the meaning section 30104(f)(3) which is a subsection defining Electioneering Communications. The parent is (f) Disclosure of electioneering communications says
(f) Disclosure of electioneering communications
(1) Statement required
Every person who makes a disbursement for the direct costs of producing and airing electioneering communications in an aggregate amount in excess of $10,000 during any calendar year shall, within 24 hours of each disclosure date, file with the Commission a statement containing the information described in paragraph (2).
So an individual taking out ads that total less than $10,000 may actually not be in violation of the US code, however the purported $100,000 definitely falls into that category and is prohibited.
I believe a facebook ad campaign has monetary value.
Perhaps, but this is only illegal if the campaign ASKED for this ad campaign on Facebook. The campaign is NOT liable for activities of others unless they are directly requesting such actions.
So the fact that a Facebook campaign was purchased by some foreign entity is not prima facie proof of an illegal activity. You MUST also prove that the campaign asked for this to be done.
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Meanwhile Glenn Greenwald posted an article which explains why BeauHD falls in the category of useful idiots.
https://theintercept.com/2017/...
Will Twitter also suspend hundreds of accounts tied to U.S. operatives in Russia? Because they certainly paid more than meagre $100 000 for their advertisements to sow unrest and manipulate Russian voters during last gov't elections.
Citations needed. You fucked in the head conservatives keep spouting so much bullshit i honestly think you can't tell the difference between reality and your own lies anymore. Do conservative families no longer teach their kids about honesty and integrity? It sure doesn't seem like it.
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I never said the GOP rigged their primary*. They did do a nice job of bending over for Trump, though, and didn't even demand any lube.
*And even if they had, it's their primary and they can run it however they choose to.
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...a gay man and a woman...
You mean, like Ernst Röhm and Leni Riefenstahl?
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I never said the GOP rigged their primary*. They did do a nice job of bending over for Trump, though, and didn't even demand any lube.
So basically, you're saying you didn't say shit. Only some profanities. The RNC primary bent over for Trump? Mmookay.