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Justice Department Charges Russian Woman With Interference in Midterm Elections (washingtonpost.com)
The Justice Department on Friday charged a Russian woman for her role in a conspiracy to interfere with the 2018 U.S. election, marking the first criminal case prosecutors have brought against a foreign national for interfering in the upcoming midterms. From a report: Elena Khusyaynova, 44, was charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States. Prosecutors said she managed the finances of "Project Lakhta," a foreign influence operation they said was designed "to sow discord in the U.S. political system" by pushing arguments and misinformation online about a whole host of divisive political issues, including immigration, the Confederate flag, gun control, and the NFL national anthem protests. The charges against Khusyaynova came just as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence warned that it was concerned about "ongoing campaigns" by Russia, China and Iran to interfere with the upcoming Midterm elections and even the 2020 race -- an ominous warning that comes just weeks before voters head to the polls.
Clearly there's a 1st Amendment issue here, but only fascists want free speech now, right?
To me, it seems like adding argumentative content to the internet is about like pissing into the ocean.
There is no way I can possibly see how this content could be changing people's minds on iota, there is already plenty of REAL argumentation happening online 24/7. They are trying to sow discord in a field where the discord plants are already ten feet high if they are an inch - and it wasn't Russians that provided the copious fertilizer required.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
posting a fake profile on hotrussianchicksforyou.ru /s
One person charged? Talk about the tip of a iceberg.
Aside from cultivating Donald Trump to launder Russian money and repeatedly betray his country, Russia's use of uneducated racists to accomplish their political goals is their most brilliant scheme.
Just look at how eager uneducated racists are to betray America to help Moscow Donald. At this point Republicans are now polling as supportive of Russia's continuing attack on America.
We need to "Lock Him Up!" with all of his treasonous co-conspirators with his campaign manager Paul Manafort who is already in prison.
Will those ridiculously bitter and divisive political AC posts stop now?
...I greatly prefer uneducated racists, to the large number of educated racists occupying the Democrats at the moment.
At least someone uneducated, can be educated... instead of thinking they already know what is best.
I'll just sit in my little independent safe zone, until people get Woken and not Woke.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
1. No investigations of districts that have a voter registration count greater than the total population in them.
2. No efforts to reconcile death documentation with voter registration rosters.
3. No one domestic officials are getting investigated over abnormalities in their districts.
And most damning of all:
4. When Trump wanted to bring "audit the Fed" to the voting system, there was a bipartisan collective loss of shit big enough enough to provide manure-based fuel to heat all of Russia and Northern Europe for an entire winter.
Gee, what on Earth could they be hiding by refusing to take all over that voter data, toss it into a big ass AWS GovCloud instance w/ Hadoop and Spark and see what devils are lurking in the details...
That's the point! Republicans betray their country and their supposed values to support their racist and evil ideology.
Throw in your thing veneer of claiming that people who notice your party's horrible racism and you've got a typical republican piece of shit right there...
It is an interesting precident. It means that all western NGOs and persons which act to "mislead" any foreign state electorate could be given the same treatment.
Americans messing around with foreign elections all the time.
Also if "being wrong" became illegal in the US, you guys are done.
Happy foot-shooting guys!
So when are they going after the rest of 4Chan?
Every story from there is about race, guns or abortion. Are they being "divisive"?
Fake news!
Voter ID now!
What, too early?
Just use mail-in paper ballots like real states do, and register everyone everyday whenever they apply for any license of any type at a county or state office.
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Where is the incitement of George Soros? He has been FAR more active in subverting US elections than any 10 random Russians.
the most recent example is of the lady in St Louis who tried to prevent an unknown tailgater who tried to pass through a secure apartment entry - if not recognized, he should have let the door close, then buzz himself in - while she did what she was supposed to in order to protect her neighbors, the guy used it as a racial issue; the media outlets loved the race angle on this story but in my opinion didn't stop to ask if she blocks other tailgaters of other colors - she lost her job in this rush to judgement that is currently entertaining the masses
Give the ID out for free to every single citizen at birth and by massive mailing otherwise, and then you might have a system that would allow for enfranchisement of voters and prevention of voter fraud.
fuck off ivan your divisive distraction bullshit is obvious
Voter ID is racist! We don't trust brown people to be able to read and write, let alone get state-issued identification, but they damn sure better be able to choose the leader of the free world!
You're like the walking definition of that NPC Meme. Sad!
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Free speech is not an absolute right. Among the many forms of speech not protected by the first amendment: perjury, libel, slander, false advertising, inciting violence, copyright infringement, obscenity and threats. For the record, freedom of religion doesn't mean you can perform human sacrifices or polygamy and the right to bear arms doesn't include nuclear weapons. All rights have limits.
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They wouldn't be able to sow discord if half of us weren't ratfuck crazy hateful scumbags.
We deserve this for not allowing General Sherman to finish the damn job.
knucklehead, I was calling out recent divisive bs
What evidence and what charges? You can't because there is no evidence there is no proof. Just like your rape victims. No corroborative evidence. The Democrats are playing very childish games and its not going to win more elections.
America has way way way more bots, more election influence and interference than any other country. They attacked our abortion referendum in Ireland - the shadow government of America - the deep state.
You're a treasonous unAmerican faggot, so I'll just post that.
There will be dire consequences for your life soon as you continue to push lies and your dishonest advocacy of traitors, KEN DOLL. You have crossed into danger by allying yourself with traitors and you will suffer for your lies.
but there are laws about how you disclose that speech. Especially for non-citizens and people who work with and interact with non-citizens.
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You're a moron, he lived in the building and she didn't accept that even after he turned his key in the lock and went into his apartment, she's a racist cunt and so are you Ivan. We're going to make you ALL lose your jobs, racist trolls.
And then? We're going to hunt you like dogs and lock you up next to Drumpftard Junior and Jared Kandyass, two of the slimiest traitors in American history. YOU are the PREY now. You will suffer consequences for your dishonesty.
Considering that Russian money bought BLM supporting Facebook ads in Chicago, I guess you are right that they are targeting ignorant, low information racists
Is she in custody? Or even in a jurisdiction where she would have to face trial? It would be swell if the 1000 copy/paste news articles about this included that BASIC REPORTING.
They deserve to be hanged. IT'S TIME TO MAKE EXAMPLES OF LYING TRAITORS LIKE KEN DOLL. Find and decapitate them and their families, send a message - no quarter for treason hiding among Republicanism.
DEATH TO THE TRAITORS. Trump will hang in time, but Ken Doll is guilty NOW.
Use your head. If you publish specific facts, you can be proven wrong. Better to use as few facts as possible. More opinion and speculation fits that way.
The news isn't written to inform, but to influence.
Kill the Satanic monster Vladimir Putin, he sucks the blood of Russian babies!
We smell your fear. It's all you have.
Let the people vote. Not the Russians.
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Organized targeted campaigns backed by financial resources are going to be tangibly effective at influencing people
Only if the people are in a neutral state. Who is in a neutral state now that would be paying attention to anyone political. Exactly no-one.
Yes we are doing quite a bit of that divide and conquer thing for partisan political reasons, but in the
WTF. Did you just copy this from somewhere and forget to grab all the text? Talk about a suspicious post all on its own!
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"sow division"
NOT
"get trump elected".
Let the people vote. Not the Russians.
Handing out ballots to everyone means everyone can vote, even people who shouldn't. The "Russian influence" has never been alleged Russian voting. Your proposed solution is not a solution to whatever problem there is with Russian influence.
I don't know what fear you smell. I'm not afraid to point out your mistake. Are you?
A number of my non-US friends, some living in the US, some not, have been posting political commentary and promoting particular candidates and parties on Facebook. Hint: Not Republicans.
Should I report them to the DoJ?
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
looks like you hate women - you need to be more respectful of people - the event ended when he entered his apartment - he should have buzzed himself in - people in NYC know how this works
If BLM ads scare people for whatever reason, and buying those ads to shove in the face of voters you want to vote against Democrats works, it's one fucked up world.
In other words, helping get one side's message out loudly, to all the voters, works against the speakers and in favor of their opponents.
Feel bad because manipulation gaming the system...when all you are really doing is letting people know what one political side wants to do. Does the BLM side of the democrats want to silence themselves lest voters actually hear them?
I am in favor of either side trumpeting the other side's own words to hurt them at the voting booth, but is this wrong in this case because Ivan pushed it?
Traitors hang, Ken Doll. Rope is coming into your life soon. Strong rope.
"Interference in elections" = participation in the public political discussion.
"Sowing discord" = Promoting non-consensual political opinions.
Remind me again how this is inappropriate? Illegal?
https://qmap.pub/ -- certainly worth investigation and consideration regardless of your conclusion...
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes.2Kings22:11
It isn't just 'uneducated' types, it's also 'wilfully ignorant' types. They don't know any better, and they don't want to know any better, they're comfy in their small-and-narrow mindedness and have no intention to improve. It's just too scary to try to wrap their heads around things like 'different isn't always bad' and 'change can be good'. They would much rather drag us all back to about 1940 socio-politically speaking, and keep us there, forever, like it's Groundhog Day, except unlike the characters in that movie they never learn any important life lessons and never do anything different. Kind of like living in the first part of Pleasantville, where everything is literally black-and-white -- and things becoming colored is not what they want.
So she is doing the same thing CNN and NBC and all others news organizations are doing... spreading lies.
I thought the meddling had something to do with actually changing someone's vote? Granted, spreading of lies will affect Democrat voters since they will believe just about everything, Republicans are more likely to figure out when something is a lie.
Yes.
Atleast these 'uneducated racists' aren't hell bent upon invading another middles-east country for no good reason and cause a few thousand deaths,and greatly increase the chances of WW3.
These 'uneducated racists' are really making the rest of the world safer and as much as you may deny it,America's economy is in the best shape in decades.
What is it you want me to learn from that website?
It looks like a Russian propaganda command and control center to mobilize American rubes against their country's rule of law and values.
nice try ivan but we know it's you.
What you really did was try to get us at each other's throats. Same as you continue to do. And the way you run antifa.
Fixed that for you.
In reality, the Russians target people of any political persuasion. They are trying to cause partisan divides. Now, they have been most successful with the "uneducated racist" camp, but they've been about half to one fifth as successful with a bunch of liberal groups.
And it's a pretty Amercia-centric point of view. They successfully invaded Crimea. They got Britain to start the dissolution of the EU.. They're propping up fascist states in Eastern Europe. And it's unclear how far reaching their expansion of influence into the Middle East will be.
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No, it didn't, she continued to berate him after he entered his apartment and never apologized. I would have supported him if he shot her dead. She still deserves it, as do all nazi faggots like yourself.
ASAP, someone needs to take this cowardly un-American traitor Horny SwampWuss behind the shed the faggot lives in and END HIS TREASONOUS FAGGOT LIFE.
Find his family. Kill em all, traitors deserve worse.
TRAITORS HANG.
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The Failing New York Times and my Not Justice Department says she hacked our election. Disgusting! Something something Kavanaugh, something Clinton, something Colin Kaepernick. Stormy Daniels! Blah blah blah, Omarosa!
I grabbed myself some Pussynova, she's a great chick, I can tell, The Best!
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In reading the article it seems the people here posted a bunch of random stuff (true or not) on Facebook etc. They may have violated some policy of those companies but how is this speech 'illegal'? Just because it comes from a non-US citizen e.g. 'foreign national'? Shit I'm a Canadian in the US, I hope my speech is protected, especially if I bash Trump in a Tweet.
And how is 'conspiracy' here illegal, just because people get together to say bad things doesn't make that illegal.
Long story short, it seems the US is trying to criminalize speech & I find that just bizarre. Of course the fact that their Russian & will never show up for a trial means that the US can charge them with any random thing they want & it won't ever go to trial to be dismissed.
So did the Podesta group. Everyone but Manafort got to register after the fact...
https://qmap.pub/ -- in case you want to know what's really going on...
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes.2Kings22:11
Except you left out that he stole her bicycle the week before and she recognized him.
as you are both black as coal. Actually they probably have the higher moral ground as aren't straight up funding coups like the CIA did.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
30 seconds is more than enough time to conclude that it's complete horseshit, you mean?
keep on spewing bullshit ivan nobody cares and everybody sees that putin is satan
90+ year old faggots who run this planet still lie and push the fake news russian psy op narrative
these old faggots, and their subservient faggots who serve them (people like utah sentaors) can't die fast enough.
in another 20 years when the old guard finally fucking dies, you won't hear about scary russia anymore.
Fn traitorz.
It's called free speech. I get that they don't like when its funded by a foreign government that is an "enemy" to certain people... but that doesn't excuse those in power from violating everybody's right to expression regardless of what that expression entails.
Morons, the lot of them: The American people are so willing to vilify socialism, gun control, celebrity-driven speech and each other, there's no need to pay a foreigner to do it. Even better, an American person can spread fake news and "misinformation online", legally.
Sheâ(TM)s been âoesowing discordâ for 3 years straight by now.
Half-baked conspiracy theories combined with a little salt of actual fact here and there.
This is the hall-mark of most troll websites today. The verifiable fact for every 10 conjectures with no facts makes it plausible, right?? Right??
That's what I saw this week as a reaction to this story - lots of fake youtube news reports by "foxnews" and "time" where the narrator was computer generated and the knuckleheads kept posting that she needs to be killed - you dumb fucks lost your mind!
agreed; Ivan2 and Putin suck, sometimes at the same time;
-Ivan1
Russia lost over 24 million people in WW2, nearly a quarter of their population. Since then they take their security quite seriously.
If you thought they were just going to roll over as you executed a coup in the Ukraine and tried to cut off their access to the Black Sea you were sorely mistaken.
The CIA has used the divide and conquer tactic to destroy opposing governments all around the world for at least 100 years. Now it is being used against the US quite spectacularly.
Enjoy the fruits of what your government sowed.
We need to "Lock Him Up!" with all of his treasonous co-conspirators with his campaign manager Paul Manafort who is already in prison.
An attack on the democratic system itself isn't something you put people in prison for.
When voter suppression happens it is a larger threat to the country than events like the 9/11 attacks.
If capital punishment isn't used for that we might just as well get rid of it.
Sad really, how am I supposed to have faith in the system now?
Fuck you, America. Just... fuck you.
You influence the elections of nearly half the fucking world already. You set up nearly every dictator in South America. You assassinated the leader of Iran and caused a civil war. All of this is available in declassified documents that your politicians gloat about. The worst part is that you don't even fucking hide it anymore, you put your foreign meddling right up on TV programs that are shown in other countries. Just look at this fine example of John Oliver influencing the Canadian elections that reached 11 million views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V5ckcTSYu8
And now you're afraid of fucking MEMES on the INTERNET influencing your elections, as if your own domestic institutions such as corporations and universities aren't doing that already. Well look at that, you provide an example for the world to live up to and then you get mad when they follow it.
You made this bed, now you're getting fucked in it!
The fact that this is pile of trash post is modded +3, Insightful is proof that meddling is happening.
Just not Russian meddling. This smells Democratic.
I remember an article linking to some of the ads that were apparently on Facebook. I think I recall seeing maybe 2-3 of them. But what kind of surprised and shocked me - the amount of truth in the supposed Russian ads and memes as compared to typical political ads. I kept going, well...that's true. Ya, America did do that. Yup, that's mostly true to. Okay, so basically the issue is they created memes that were based on facts, and that further divided Americans. Heck, Americans are so divided, but most of the American memes on both the left and right are half truths and taken out of context. I started to actually feel that maybe we need more Russian news and input into our society.
Apparently, the only one in America that actually gives a crap about the midterm elections.
Remember when Republicans used to be the party of Law & Order? Now, we all know they only got hard-core on enforcement against black people, and brown people, and women, and the poor.
Now however, even that "eternal value" has gone by the wayside. A Russian and (presumed) white person breaks the law and Republicans are all, "what's the big deal, it's just opinion, and everyone does it!"
Funny how self-interest and hypocrisy changes those unchanging values. Too bad for them that I have a long memory and a low tolerance for nonsense.