Tumblr Takes Down 84 Russia-Linked Accounts (thehill.com)
On Friday, Tumblr said it has taken down 84 accounts used by Russia to spread disinformation ahead of the 2016 presidential election. The accounts were reportedly linked to the Russian troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency. The Hill reports: Special counsel Robert Mueller last month indicted 13 Russians and three Russian entities associated with the Internet Research Agency who are accused of orchestrating an elaborate plot to spread divisive messages to U.S. audiences on social media ahead of the election. The individuals face multiple charges, including identity theft and bank fraud. Tumblr said in a statement Friday that it provided information on the 84 Russia-linked accounts from its investigation to the Justice Department. Tumblr said the Russia-linked accounts were solely focused on spreading disinformation by posting "organic content." The company found no indication that the accounts purchased any advertisements. The platform says it will notify any users who interacted with the accounts and provide them with a list of usernames they engaged with. Tumblr also disclosed that it will keep a public record of usernames linked to the Internet Research Agency or other state-sponsored disinformation efforts for the sake of transparency.
Oh, wait.
really? 84? why is "84" even news worthy?
So 84 accounts out of 345 million registered? Nothing in other words.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Goddammit, these Russians are everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlwEwwJcBTM
seriously, I'd like to know what the disinformation was.
You have no idea what sort of evil they were up to. They were probably claiming something horrible on Tumblr, like saying there are only two genders.
Can you even imagine how much that would disrupt Tumblr?
What you're saying is that 84 accounts took a bit of a tumbl?
#DeleteFacebook
This strikes me as odd. Posting organic content? No Proxies.. or shitty proxies? Disinformation... like what can you say bad about the last election candidates that isnt so very obvious... they were all idiots and the Russian trolls really didnt have to do much at all, if anything.
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State Sponsored or more likely billionaire Robert Mercer sponsored via a myriad of shell companies, VPNs and proxies
or Mueller is.
There's nearly 400 MILLION accounts on tumblr.
*400, MILLION*
So it's newsworthy that 80 accounts 'linked to Russians' were closed? Really? Really? For goodness sakes, there's over 300,000,000 Americans, there's 6 (7?) Billion people on the planet.
There's VPN providers in Russia, when the figure is as low as 84 people, it could literally, literally be Americans just using a VPN or proxy because they're paranoid, coming out of a Russian IP. Christ, it could be 84 Americans who've moved to Russia?
Maybe it's just 84 citizens?
When, WHEN, *WHEN* will the @#$%^ing Russia articles stop on this website? It's this endless braying of Russia Russia Russia! with exceedingly little convincing evidence of anything. *Even if there was* I've no doubt the American govt would've done the same thing historically.
I come to slashdot for technology news, not politics. I'm *NOT* American, no I wouldn't have voted for Trump, I would've voted for Bernie.
Another day, another person, entirely focused on politics, unable to detach politics from everything else in society, has to spam their stuff here, to try to rustle up feathers.
Seriously, I'd be better off hitting /homelab /linux /hardware /android etc on Reddit at this point. Can someone, in some position, stop this shit? It's fucking daily and 2/3 of them are barely tech related.
What's next, Geocities Takes down 23 Russia-linked accounts? My sides.
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
So when Tumblr says that
"...it will keep a public record of usernames linked to the Internet Research Agency or other state-sponsored disinformation efforts",
does that include those used by the FBI, NSA, and/or CIA, or is it just those evil foreigners?
Go on, citizen, stamp the vote card. R or D, your choice.
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Did Tumblr also take down Harry Reid's account?
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Mar. 20, Juche 107 (2018) Tuesday
Imperialists' Aggression and Interference Should Be Resolutely Foiled
Today when the imperialists' moves to put other countries and nations under their control and dominate the world have become all the more crafty and vicious, it is a vital issue on which hinges the destiny of each country and nation to fight against aggression and interference in the internal affairs of other countries by the imperialists.
The imperialists are citing all sorts of pretexts to dominate other countries and nations and to subjugate them.
"Democracy", "human rights" and "war on terrorism" at present are sloganboards which the imperialists have always put up in their aggression and interference in the internal affairs of other countries.
The imperialists are trumpeting about "human rights" and "democracy" while giving impression that they are trying to realize justice. This is aimed to justify the aggression and interference in the internal affairs of other countries.
The "war on terrorism" committed by the U.S. is a state-sponsored terrorist act against anti-U.S. and independent countries and it is a revised version of undisguised interference in the internal affairs and aggression war moves.
It is the unanimous desire and wish of the world peace-loving people to live in the world without domination, subjugation, aggression and interference.
Those countries valuing sovereignty of the country and dignity of the nation should heighten vigilance against the imperialists' aggression and interference in the internal affairs and wage high-intensity struggle to thoroughly foil them.
Ri Hyon Do
Only a Russian, with their hearts of blackest evil, could do something so awful as to suggest there are only two genders.
Grindr deleted 400 DNC-related accounts.
Cultural Marxists hate their own nation. At least in the US and Germany. They actively spread anger about their own fathers.
No Turk, no African, no Arab, no Chinese, bo Rusdian would be so stupid and treacherous to actively hate their own kin.
But the Marxists want to be elected by these people they despise.
Please spot the contradiction.
Signed
Ivan Medvedev
Please proceed back to reddit and stop shitting up this site, shill.
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Remember: if your opinion differs and you question the status quo, then you are spreading propaganda and fake news. And if you're from Russia or just plain "elsewhere", then you may be a troll or a terrorist. This is how they silence any criticism, by assigning blame and guilt due association.
They were pushing flaming leftist outrage, presumably to get peoples' mouths louder with stuff that makes conservatives more liky to get out and vote.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
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