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Russia-Linked Twitter Accounts 'Tried To Divide UK' After Terrorist Attacks (theguardian.com)
AmiMoJo shares a report from The Guardian: Fake social media accounts linked to Russia were used to influence and interfere with public debate in the aftermath of four terrorist attacks in the UK this year, researchers have found. At least 47 Russian Twitter accounts posted material after attacks at Westminster Bridge, Manchester Arena, London Bridge and Finsbury Park, according to researchers at the Cardiff University Crime and Security Research Institute (CSRI). Of the 47 accounts, eight were especially active, posting at least 475 tweets about the four attacks, which were reposted more than 153,000 times. The accounts intervened on both sides of polarized debates to ramp up the level of discord online, the research found.
Seriously 47? I call bullshit, there have to be more Russian trolls on twitter at any given second. And Americans, and Germans, and Australians, and Indians. Trolling is a world wide passtime.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
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Russia, come get your piping hot Russia hatred! Russia, best Russian hatred here. Belly on up ladies and gents its Russia!
Or is that just too much conspiracy?
Russia built a time machine and killed JFK today.
Sort of, they divide into factions, then align the gullible faction to a pro-Russian stance. i.e. its supposed to create factions so afraid of muslims, then we all unite with Putin against the muslim threat. 5 eyes would become 5+1 eyes, giving Putin access to surveillance data on other 5 eyes nations, and expanding his ability to attack other democracies, all under cover of protecting USA from this threat.
So you see this in Syria, where Trump identified Isis as the USA's biggest threat (it isn't, it's Russia), and Putin did the same, and the trolls bigged up the threat as a general threat from muslims. Putin then bombs all of Assads enemies (muslims and US allies), and Trump gives him political cover.
See the uniting bit? That's really the payoff. Mueller is arrested Putin's money launderers and Hannity is laying down smoke to cover for these Russians, Hannity's so aligned to the message and united to their cause, he forgets he's selling out America.
You see the same thing here, where they organized a "Stop Islamation of Texas' protest to stop Texas turning muslim (!) and to give them something to push against, a counter protest against the racist one:
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-trolls-senate-intelligence-committee-hearing-2017-11
Once people buy into this nonsense, their self worth becomes attached to it. They can't admit to being wrong, so they keep up the pretense and can be led further and further astray.
I totally believe this guys! You should too.
The Russians stole my sandwich today also.
there is no more Russian trolls/hackers than anywhere else. This leftist conspiracy nonsense has to stop
Faith is not open for debate. They are building their forces of occupation and conquest.
A religion of war has a series of commands for its followers.
A book of war to teach strategy and tactics to its many followers.
An open door policy to converts.
No changes to the faith. No reformation.
No way to escape the faith. A faith with an internal way of dealing with any attempts at desertion.
Its own law and courts that are not open to debate.
The places of worship are a cover for barracks in a nation been invaded.
Its political and religious leaders push propaganda.
People of faith don't debate. They invade and conquer. Move onto the next nation.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Saying this IS RUSSIA doing this can only ever be based on stuff that is so easily forge-able as to be proof of nothing, other than someone wants us to THINK RUSSIA IS DOING THIS.
If anything, what is more interesting is how the media pretends the accusations are not farcical. Except.. Media Ownership.
Cut Russia off. Isolate them. No more internet. No more trade. Some people you need to talk to in a language they understand, and so let me say it in the language of the Tsars: do svidaniya, comrades, you're welcome no more.
russia and north korea have better things to do than dick around on the internet to screw with 5eyes
And created some sort of ill-defined "discord" -- maybe.
Meanwhile, U.S. "journalist" Brian Ross's fake news about Michael Flynn was retweeted over 25,000 times in less than half a day and caused the stock market to tank.
So yes, let's definitely keep the focus where it belongs -- on a handful of posts from Rooshun nobodies. Because that's clearly what's dividing everyone.
Trolling is practically free, successful physical attacks are hard and expensive. Worse getting away uncaught is harder, and unlike trolling (which is nebulous and plays on internal division) getting caught doing physical violence makes you a target and worse undoes your previous work as a *clear* and *external* common enemy, tends to bring societies together.
47 accounts that have a hall full of the best anthropologists, psychologists, psychiatrists and propagandists to support them.
Halls of select staff in isolated, sealed military cities.
Hand crafting every word on typewriters to ensure total security from the NSA and GCHQ.
The final approved message is transmitted by number station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... deep into the UK.
After the one time pad is used once a message is released on to waiting social media in a NATO nation.
The account has a real ip and looks like an average ISP. Using a desktop computer and consumer OS.
The ill equipped minds of the average European cant handle the flow of such quality statements.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Between the alt-right who thinks the Jews are controlling the world and the left who thinks it's Putin who is controlling the world, I'm beginning to think that flat-Earthers are not that bad after all.
Am I the only person on this planet who is still sane?
Fork Newts!
Russians were trying to divide the country? That's awful! It could be worse, imagine if our own politicians were trying to divide the country! Oh, wait.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
We doing that lock step US/UK thing like Iraqi?
Fucking great.
We didn't learn anything.
I'm sick of this ridiculous, endless "THE RUSSIANS DID IT" stuff. The evidence is normally lacking or asinine. The Guardian and particular outlets have an ongoing boogeyman with this Russian stuff, which has reached a point to have become absurd.
"WHITE MALE RUSSIANS DID IT"
Etc
We're over it. You've cried wolf, stupidly, one too many times and now, even if you're right, we're probably not going to listen anymore.
figuring out where the real terrorists are coming from?
Instead of making countries safer, they're going after internet trolls?
Good grief. Way to distract from their own incompetence. Or is it collusion?
"Spent 2 hours last night getting fucked up. Drunk as shit then plugged into some awesome ass pounding painal, headphones on and loud, Jungle Juice in the nose, dildo in the ass, cock ring, weighted steel ball stretcher, studded collar cinched tight. I love tight leather straps and other shit. Im a top but im a freak."
--Reliable Russian Source
I was going to remark that we could expect Russian apologists to swarm to this story in three, two...but I was too late. They're already on it like flies on a fresh turd.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
i can understand they try to influence elections, but why influence the terrorist attacks debate? how does that benefit them?
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
I don't want to be mistaken for a troll! I want my opinion to matter to other Twitter users.
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... EXPOSED!
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Putin dropped few hundred thou into social media and scored Brexit and Trump while shit like Clinton wasted billions and still lost. I know who my overlords are.
The division, which only exists because people are now hyper-aware of terrorism and related issues, goes something like:
Right: Terrorism is bad; open borders contribute to insecure nations. We shouldn't have open borders.
Left: This is our new way of life; you are a racist if you can't deal with it.
This whole thing reminds me of the old Miller Lite commercial where Conrad Dobler stirs up trouble between "tastes great" guy and the "less filling" guy.
Are you positive it would be a rout?
The trolls here are easily identifiable. Often, they're the ones lamenting Russian trolling, which isn't present here--you'd have to be delusional to think the russian government knows or cares about slashdot. On the other hand, corporate and government trolls from the US have been here for years, calling Assange a rapist, snowden a double agent, glenn greenwald a liar and bradley manning a coward. We see trolls lying about how the ISPs secretly desire network neutrality, and about how global warming is a hoax. Now compared to all that, find me one post here extolling Putin. Go ahead.