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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.
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.
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.
Exactly!
The liberals are pushing the idea of globalism and acceptance of other people, but they are critical of each and every person that has even the slightest interaction with somebody from Russia.
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
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?
"Is it somehow different when it's a foreign actor?"
Yes. Yes it is. The fact that you feel you need to even ask that question is frightening. What the hell is wrong with you?
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.)
Ya... nothing in the links specifically talk about how they identify that an account was opened by a "Russian"
They use terms like, "Linked with" and other vague phrases. But nothing that says they can prove an account was opened in this location by some individual. If I were in Southern CA and opened an account and posted material similar to what they claim are Russian accounts, they'd likely claim I was a Russian.
More likely they are simply choosing what accounts to claim are Russian based solely on their content.
If you have a better explanation, I'm listening.
BTW, calling someone a Russian simply because you don't like their messages is pretty much the bottom of the barrel when it comes to any kind of discussion. Conceptually, it's no different than scoffing at someone and dismissing them as a N*ger or K*ke, or any other racist pejorative. It is pure intellectually laziness and an explicit admission that you have lost the argument.
Traitors.