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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.
So 84 accounts out of 345 million registered? Nothing in other words.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
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
It means they weren't just publishing one account, it's enough to play whack-a-mole
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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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.
The Western intelligence services fear 84 accounts?
Some university level meme magic and traditionalism reminded America it was always great?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
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
All of the crap, runs straight smack into the face of an infinitely think concrete wall, people will believe what they want to believe. The internet propaganda tends to fail apart from bringing together people who want to believe particular things. What happens is people get exposed to all sorts of stuff, big truths, little truths, big lies, little lies, stupendously massive lies and they select from what is on offer and choose to believe what they want to believe, based upon the whole range of lies/truths they were presented. The numbers the generate look impressive until you realise, yeah they were already there before this shit started, you are just filtering them out from the crowd and bringing them together and generating a whole bunch of empty noise.
The same can not be said for generating and spreading new ideas, ideas work all together differently to stories. Ideas spread and take hold, stories well;
if people want to believe a story they will
if they don't want to believe a story they won't
if they do believe and want to pretend they don't believe they will publicly pretend not to believe
if they don't believe and want to pretend they do believe they will publicly pretend they do believe.
People lie in all sorts of fashion, which is exactly why sociologists manage to come up with all sorts of nonsense (asking people questions and pretending they are telling the truth). So they lie about the outcomes, the lie about the results, they lie to get rich, and that is exactly what the contractors are doing lying about outcomes to generate more income, lying about succeeding, lying about failing, lying, lying, lying. Good luck in your search for the truth in the propaganda wars. Ideas change things, stories do not, stories entertain.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Somebody pointed that out to Podesta on Meet the Press, iirc. Asked him how the Ruskies knew to target swing states, but the Hillary campaign did not. She just took for granted that she would win states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Iowa and didn't bother to campaign in them - that went to Trump. Hell, she nearly lost Minnesota as well.
Russiagate is nothing more than a sad, sad attempt to excuse Hillary losing the most winnable election in history.
Sure. Cant be that the democRats are simply sorry losers and want to discredit Trumps presidency.
Becauze Cultural Marxism and perpetual war is morally superior.
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This is like asking how Trump's Twitter account can have any influence or power at all when it's just one single account out of 330 million active users.
These accounts are just entry points for fake news, memes and propaganda. What matters is not how many there are, but how far their messages spread and the influence they had. The number of accounts tells you nothing.
That's why social media is such a powerful tool. That's why Russia uses it. That's why western governments use it too - don't forget that the original leak about this stuff was from GCHQ. If you think it has no effect you are just opening yourself and your country up to manipulation by anyone who understands it.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Because the left _Must_ push the russia narrative. it's all they have.
Apart from
- Sexual assault claims / treatment of women
- Tax records
- Treatment of immigrants
- Cops murdering black people
- Gun control and NRA campaign donations
- Transgender ban in the military
- Adultery and illegal campaign contributions to cover it up
we're ignoring the saud spending hundreds of millions, or the chinese spending hundreds of millions
Spending hundreds of millions on what specifically? And more to the point was it illegal and have to forwarded your evidence to Mueller?
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Because the left _Must_ push the russia narrative. it's all they have.
Well, that and 22 indictments with 5 guilty pleas so far. But keep telling yourself that there's nothing there.
What they actually need to do is drop social justice and authoritarianism and go back to be the ones that protect the working class from the corporations.
I think it's a dogwhistle for The Races Must Be Separated (I mean, what would cultural Marxism be? sharing in the benefits of each others cultures? Maybe? Perhaps they can define what it is they mean, but I doubt it). Unless they can come up with some kind of coherent definition, just take it as more of the same nationalist and white supremacist bullshit, with a new shiny label.
They were pushing flaming leftist outrage, presumably to get peoples' mouths louder with stuff that makes conservatives more liky to get out and vote.
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Like when Thomas Jefferson was banging his slaves? Like when JFK was banging sluts? Like when LBJ was showing everybody his dick? Like when Bill Clinton was using his intern as a humidor? "Dignity in the Office" has been the rare exception, not the rule.
Assume Trump raw dogged porn stars ten years ago. Now what? Impeach? What exactly do you want to happen over this?
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
All of those people you mentioned are dead, and Bill Clinton was impeached.
I'm NOT saying that any of these are impeachable offenses. But it disgraces and degrades the office when it occurs.
Okay. Consider the office disgraced and degraded. Can we move on now?
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Sure was, but isn't that last minute panic evidence that Hillary did not target those states?
Easily the worst of all time, as she lost to Trump. Speaking of Obama, he every-so-politely called Hillary out for her lazy hubris after the election:
2016 was Hillary's election to lose, right up until she lost it. Had to work hard to do it, too.
Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives. Since he was acquitted of a crime by the Senate, he was not required to leave office.
Impeachment does not necessarily mean "thrown out of office." The House impeaches, the Senate conducts a trial.
Andrew Johnson, the only other President to be impeached, likewise passed a Senate trial, served the rest of his presidential term, and was later elected Senator.
Well it'd be really embarrassing for Mueller if he couldn't claim at least a few scalps, given the level of corruption that is the standard in politics and the level of manpower and unlimited resources at his disposal.
Ants put under a magnifying lens get burned. When you're working backwards from the conclusion, the more little ants you burn the better, since the pile that results can be pointed at by professional liars and be claimed to amount to something substantial.
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