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Twitter Notifies 1.4 Million Users of Interaction With Russian Accounts (recode.net)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Recode: At least 1.4 million people on Twitter engaged with content created by Russian trolls during the 2016 presidential election, the company revealed on Wednesday. That's more than double the amount that Twitter initially identified -- and perhaps still just a fraction of the full universe of users who may have witnessed Kremlin propaganda over that period. In announcing the new data in a blog post, Twitter also said it had notified all 1.4 million affected users that they saw election disinformation. That fulfilled a pledge that the company previously made to members of Congress who are investigating Russia's tactics on social media. Notified users included those that followed one of the roughly 3,000 accounts belonging to the Internet Research Agency, the troll army tied to the Russian government, as well as users who retweeted, replied, liked or mentioned those IRA accounts in their tweets. But Twitter did not alert users who merely saw Russian troll tweets in their feeds but did not interact with the content. Nor did it reach out to users who saw tweets from the roughly 50,000 Russian bots that tweeted election-related content around November 2016.
Wonder who they were targeting...
So, only 1.4 million twitter users interacted with Russians...
How many twitter users are Russians themselves. 1.39 million?
Trump refused to implement the sanctions law, claiming the mere threat of sanctions was working.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions/trump-administration-holds-off-on-new-russia-sanctions-despite-law-idUSKBN1FI2V7
However his CIA chief says Russia has not let up attacking the USA and expects Russia to interfere in the US Midterm elections:
http://time.com/5124313/cia-mike-pompeo-russia-midterm-elections/
Republicans should clean house, Nunes is blowing a smoke screen to hide Russian attacks on the US elections, and you can't have the Republican head of the Intelligence oversight committee giving cover for a *foreign* intelligence agency to attack the US.
Twitter Notifies All Users of Interaction with US accounts
Put a flag icon of the accounts country of origin over their tweets. That way you can see where it's coming from.
So Russia really is an Evil Empire?
Mitt Romney was right and Obama was wrong? Obama's "The 1980s called and want their foreign policy back" was delusional?
Thanks for FINALLY starting to see reality, progtards!
They've been investigating Russian Trolls on Slashdot, so now we just need the report for the names.
When it comes to trolling, I will be most grateful if anyone presents clear-cut example(s) of what Russians are alleged to have exposed to us.
I have a feeling it's not that different when compared to what the US agencies do themselves.
So folks, spit out some examples.
Hello Ivan, you aren't fooling anyone aside from your fellow retards.
Which should beg the question: What's the difference between foreign political trolling and domestic political campaigning? We already allow corporations and any domestic actor to express their political opinions, constructively and not. Is it somehow different when it's a foreign actor?
"... commit myself to defend ... the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ..."
There was a claim, [possibly made by Vlado himself,] that many of the Russian IPv4's interacting with Twitter traffic were due to TOR exit servers based in Russia.
So we are back to a verifiable {micro-sized airborne particles of combustion origin and planar reflective surfaces} situation
The article says "Saw", not interacted... Hmm. Bias from the subby?
So, let me paraphrase the concern: About 191 million Americans use facebook. Each one scrolls though dozens of political BS memes every day/week. 1.4 million of the 191 million probably scrolled past one of the memes that they say Russians produced.
So, the Russians absolutely suck at pushing out misinformation and this whole thing is vastly overblown.
In a world connected through the internet. We better get used to outside influences. Otherwise we will have to decide for ourselves how much we want to censor outside connections. Personally I think most American's can filter through the muck just fine in a election. I am less concerned about Russia on social sites, then in out voting stations which so far have proven to be unfounded. My question is, why is Russia the only country focused on? I am pretty sure we probably see China and others doing similar social engineering of news.
There was collusion with Russia to influence the election. Clinton's campaign, and DNC, paid $12 million to get false Russian propaganda against Trump. They then gave it to the FBI, which used it to wire tap Trump tower during the election, with no real attempt to vet if the documents were factual. When it came time to renew the FISA warrant, Rosenstein asked Sydney Blumenthal, a Clinton campaign worker, if the document was true and he said yet. That was good enough for the FBI. The warrant was renewed and Trump tower was then wiretapped for an additional 3 months.
So, you wanted to know what Russia's involvement was. There you go. They worked with Clinton, the FBI, and the DOJ to prevent Trump from winning and then after he won to try and remove him from office. There is evidence of this, but there is no evidence of Trump working with Russia.
Funny how I am able to figure this all out while working a full time job, and Muller hasn't figured it out yet. It's almost as if Muller is ALSO working with the Russians to attempt to invalidate the election to this day.
So you think it's OK for senior law enforcement people in the FBI and DoJ to even contemplate things like "insurance policies" against candidates they don't like?
"Insurance policies" against that candidate being ELECTED???
Are you a dropped-on-your-head-at-birth utter FUCKING MORON, or an actual dyed-in-the-wool totalitarian?
Of course, no mention of the paid proposals straight from the European finalists and Chinese government cheering for Bernie and Hillary. Because that want"bad", that was free speech.
how many users engaged with content created by american trolls?
My god stop it already!
Wonder who they were targeting...
In fact, it's pretty clear that they were targeting America in general.
Despite the popular thinking, all the evidence is that they weren't actually trying to help one political party over another-- their intent was just to disrupt American society, and the democratic process, any way that they could.
(and not just America-- they wanted to disrupt western European countries as well. And, of course, it all stems from their attempts to destabilize Ukraine.)
Given the proclivity of the Left to accuse others of being Russian whenever they hear an opinion they don't like, I wonder how they actually know if it's a"Russian" account or not.
Hmm-- did you try, perhaps, actually following the links to the articles that answer that question? No?
So, you didn't actually want to know, did you.
F'ing anonymous cowards. I expect you are a Russian troll.
2016: Birther loons are deservedly ridiculed.
2017/18: Muh Russia loons approach the Birther crazy level, but in some cases they are the exact same people who laughed at the birthers.
Define irony !
I haven't seen any evidence that Russia ever attacked us in any way,
Depends on what you mean by "attacked". What they did was spread disruptive messages primarily through social media, with the apparent intent of sowing discord and animosity. If you "haven't seen evidence", I take it to mean that you haven't actually looked at any of the evidence.
I will point out, however, that what they seem to have done here is not actually illegal. They posted messages. Turns out it's legal to post messages of almost any sort. (They may have violated terms of service by using a bot army to do a lot of this... but it's not clear that violating terms of service is actually a crime).
Except for the part about breaking into the DNC email system. That part actually was illegal.
nor that they hacked our elections,
Depends on what you mean by "hacked our elections". There's no evidence, for example, that they ever successfully broke into voting machines to change votes (although there is some evidence that they did some probing). What they did was use their army of bots to spread disruptive messages. Is that "hacking an election?" Well, if social hacking is "hacking."
something Obama and Clinton said could not happen when it was them being accused of it before the election.
Interesting, but, no, neither one of them ever said that it's impossible to hack an election. They did not say this.
WARNING!
All Russians have super powers. These include:
When it comes to trolling, I will be most grateful if anyone presents clear-cut example(s) of what Russians are alleged to have exposed to us.
So, I take it you didn't follow any of the links in the summary, like say this one https://www.theverge.com/2018/... or this one https://blog.twitter.com/offic...
Why are you bothering to comment if you aren't even interested enough to follow the links?
you could have tried a google search, too: https://www.google.com/search?...
FBI used a warrant to spy on Carter Page's visits to Moscow, and his meeting with FSB people in Moscow. If they can't use a warrant for that treason when can they?
It's about as clear cut treason as it gets. FBI had the duty to get a warrant and investigate his meetings.
Perhaps you don't quite understand the implications of Nunes snokescreen. Trumps defense to Carter Page's treason was "he wasn't in my campaign just a volunteer". But Nunes is claiming "FBI spied on Trump by spying on Carter Page".... which links the two and undermines Trumps defense.
So as soon as Nunes lays down cover smoke for Russia, people are going to look at Carter Page of the Trump campaign, because those details they've declassified.
Republicans cannot have their head of Intellligence on Team Russia. He has to be on the US team.
Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries Into Fake Accounts
Federal and state authorities are investigating the sellers of artificial followers and other fraudulent social media engagement.
More than a million followers have disappeared from the accounts of dozens of prominent Twitter users in recent days as the company faces growing criticism over the proliferation of fake accounts and scrutiny from federal and state inquiries into the shadowy firms that sell fake followers.
The people losing followers include an array of entertainers, entrepreneurs, athletes and media figures, many of whom bought Twitter followers or artificial engagement from a company called Devumi. Its business practices were detailed in a New York Times article on Saturday describing a vast trade in fake followers and fraudulent engagement on Twitter and other social media sites, often using personal information taken from real users. Twitter said on Saturday that it would take action against Devumi’s practices. A Twitter spokeswoman on Tuesday declined to comment about whether the company was purging fake accounts.
Compared to how many interacted with American trolls?
You snowflakes still running this flag.
What's the difference between calling an someone 'Ivan' and calling a civil rights activist a 'n*gger lover'?
Answer: You don't have to listen to what they say.
How does it feel to be the same as those bigots screaming 'n*gger lover'?
[citation needed]
Millions Americans live abroad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for complex reasons.
If a post originates from a foreign IP, it does not mean yet that it was not written by an American.
I am acquainted with some post-soviet functioneers. They are not capable to generate content which is read and liked by millions of US citizens. They just do not know the US realities to such degree, not even close.
I have no doubt that it is either the diaspora or activists inside the country are using proxies located in remote parts, for obvious reasons.
He's right. There is no evidence whatsoever.
And it is amazing how intelligent people buy into this brainwash without asking for any proof
And in other news @therealdonaldtrump received a tweet from twitter which has the white house rushing to prepare a denial of.
Nice link - the "Alliance for Securing Democracy". Now that's a creepy 1984-style name! Seems that site is operated by the German Marshall Fund, a Cold War institutional relic dedicated to NATO hegemony in Eastern Europe.
No reason for obsolete cold warriors like that to build up a Russian boogey man. It's not like they have no purpose in a peaceful Europe, and a new conflict with Russia would rescue them from the dust bin of history. No sir, no siree. This is definitely not lawful domestic propaganda. They have no motivation to lie - I trust their every word.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
This sounds like a great argument for having a better system for keeping Twitter restricted to real people, but the stupid, arbitrary character limitation renders it pretty close to useless anyway, so who really gives a red-hot flying fuck if someone someone interacted with on Twitter was Russian? Are Russians not people? (Obviously Russian bots aren't people, unless of course, they thought ahead and incorporated, because in the United States, "corporations are people, my friend," to quote a bot posing as a person. But all kidding aside, all the hoopla about Russian bots seems to imply that if you read/heard/viewed anything on the news or social media, it WILL have influenced what you do. If that were really true, people would be sitting on top of piles of bottles of c1alis, and V1âgrå, and would be waiting anxiously to hear back from their long-lost Nigerian prince cousin. No, just because a Russian bot pointed something out doesn't mean anyone who saw it believed it, or that it influenced their decision-making, neither in point of fact, does a Russian bot (or real person, for that matter,) making a point mean it's not true. If a Russian bot said, "hey, Hillary Clinton is full of shit," the fact that it's a bot doesn't mean that it doesn't happen to be true, (which is obvious if you've been paying attention,) that of COURSE she's full of shit. She's a CLINTON! (Notwithstanding of course the fact that Donald Trump is LIKEWISE completely and entirely full of shit... but that's irrelevant. His fans are immune to facts. They just bounce right off their little foil hats.) So did Russia try to fuck with our election? Naturally. If they didn't, would it then have been either free or fair? Of course not. Don't be silly.
Ok, did you see anything wrong with it besides the name?
BTW, how's the weather in Moscow this time of year?
I'm pretty sure it's cold as fuck in Moscow. Can you confirm that for me? K thx.
Here in Vietnam it's a fairly cool night, about 76F. There's a little breeze so the air pollution has lightened up. Altogether a lovely evening.
Hope you're enjoying the snow!