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Twitter Warns of Suspicious Traffic Coming From China and Russia (reuters.com)
Suspicious traffic to a Twitter user forum appears to be part of a government-backed activity coming from China and Russia, a Twitter spokesman told Reuters Monday. The company said it is yet to determine the reason for the activity, but is choosing to notify users out of an abundance of caution.
Additionally: Twitter bug leaks phone number country codes.
Additionally: Twitter bug leaks phone number country codes.
that they won't pocket the ad revenue from the extra traffic.
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Maybe we should all switch.
I don't get the Soros complaint angle. So plutocrats with deep pockets to spend on political causes are bad? Wouldn't that make Koch's bad? Or are you cherry-picking your plutocrats?
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"(This story corrects to show Twitter saying suspicious traffic appears to be coming from China and Saudi Arabia, not China and Russia) "
seems reuters (and /.) has too much russia on its mind and sees russia everywhere.
The key objective in a war, is to get what you want by any means possible. Wither that is land, material, workers, or just follow your ideas or not being a threat to your security.
Today, why bother with all the killing, when you can obtain your objectives via hacking the media. I
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I cherry pick based on how much they make my life suck
Tiny hands, is that you?
I cherry pick based on how much they make my life suck
Hey Anonymous Coward, can you provide some concrete fact-based examples of exactly how Soros has "made your life suck?"
Half-dozen or so examples should be fine.
Good call, the Koch brothers do make all lives suck quite badly.
Caffeinated bacon/crimson tsunami, very likely comes from china. But there are others here whose job is to come here and lie. Until sites vet ppl ( just have to get them as being who they claim; do not have to tell others it ), this will continue.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Please God, free the people of Earth. Go Russia and China.
Indeed, all that money the pour into cancer research really sucks. /s
Seems they have found another nation and China in an update. Strange how its always Russia until its not, but its still Russia :)
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Hey Anonymous Coward, can you provide some concrete fact-based examples of exactly how Soros has "made your life suck?"
Here you go:
- Open Society Foundations
- Ferguson
- BLM
- Ready For Hillary Super PAC
- Causing financial crises in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and Russia
Want me to continue?
good hope you burn in hell
Want me to continue?
No. But I do want you to answer the question. How exactly did those things you listed make your life "suck?" How has Black Lives Matter or Ferguson specifically made your life "suck?"
Please go through the list and explain how each of these items have explicitly impacted you negatively.
There has _always_ been adversarial traffic from foreign countries, including from foreign government-sponsored entities. There will _always_ be such traffic. All these reports are is CYA: if, god forbid, someone in Russia were to spend $6k promoting Black Lives Matter they can say âoesee, we told you it was happeningâ. This is not new, this happens all the time, and is done by all countries. Furthermore, thereâ(TM)s no way to reliably tell if adversary is a government or not, and any assertions to the contrary are pure propaganda.
And all of these have literally made your life more miserable?
Do you hear voices in your head? Do you wear a tinfoil hat? Does it help?
Open Society Foundations
Yeah, Buba! you tell'em!! Fighting for human rights - like the LGBTQFAGS - and health issues like AIDs (more fags), education (who needs that!), women's rights around the world, and other things for the better of society and everyone. Doesn't he know that the World is just for us white heterosexual men!
- Ferguson
With you on that. Craig Ferguson ain't that funny.
- BLM
Yeah, what's his problem with Bowel Lower Management.
- Ready For Hillary Super PAC
Damn straight there! We are lucky that we have Trump who is waging these trade wars that are bankrupting the very farmers who voted for him, signed a tax bill that rewarded Republican donors and will straddle the USA with another trillion dollars in debt and ...I'm waiting for the promise of that Trillion for infrastructure but I guess that's after the wall.
- Causing financial crises in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and Russia
Yeah those globalists **cough**Jews**cough** are ruining our lives! But I support Israel and the trillion dollars we dumped into the Middle East for FREEDOM!!!
Want me to continue?
No need for me!! I've friended you on facebook and I like the same Russian feeds or this guy in the USA. because we Conservatives KNOW that whatever is posted on facebook and liked by our brethern is the TRUTH!
Well I lived in St. Louis during the Ferguson thing, and not only did it fuck up my work commute and a planned trip via airplane, but I ended up pulling triple duty at work for a week because several of my black co workers had to stay home (yes, in Ferguson) sitting around with loaded guns to keep their homes from being looted.
Considering all the cancer their primary products cause, yep, really sucks.
So you're just a whiny bitch crybaby without real problems, got it. Cry on, bitch baby.
Yes, someone lost their life and we should definitely all be upset that yout commute got interrupted. Not to mention the absurdity on blaming it on George Soros. You, Sir, appear to be a vile human being.
Thank God that white Protestant and Evangelical men never lie. Imagine the tears on Tammy Fae and Jim Baker if they had ever lied...
Prosperity Gospel, how is that still a thing?
Better idea.
Wall them off -- online and offline. No internet. No visas. No trade. No food. No energy. No nothing.
The tyrants want "sovereignty". We should show the authoritarians what absolute sovereignty, i.e. grinding poverty and starvation looks like.
Fuck them. They want to attack us? They can live without the benefits of trade and travel with civilized countries.
that's what I'm reading. The U.S. wants to lie, lie, and lie some more, and if someone corrects or contradicts the lies, then it's suspicous propaganda.
You just don't like it that people now tell you you are lying instead of joining in your circlejerk.
You are supposedly vetted, but that doesn't stop you from lying constantly.
The fact that you don't know that Ferguson and BLM are very much connected to Soros tells me you're an imbecile.
Your life? To be frank, we don't care much about your personal preferences any more than you care about ours.
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You people are nuts! And so weak minded!! You make the Trump people look like geniuses. We're doomed :-(
Next time, when we tell you there are hundreds of thousands of fake twitter bots, and turn them in to you, believe us.
Note it's probably a lot worse than that.
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Get blacked
The fact that you don't know that Ferguson and BLM are very much connected to Soros tells me you're an imbecile.
Sigh. Typical Soros-blaming Anonymous Coward - Completely incapable of answering the simple question asked, so simply deflects to irrelevancy and lobs an insult.
Who's the imbecile again?
No need for me!! I've friended you on facebook and I like the same Russian feeds or this guy in the USA. [bbc.co.uk] because we Conservatives KNOW that whatever is posted on facebook and liked by our brethern is the TRUTH!
Clinton and Soros control the deep state you stupid liberal. They are who behind all false russia investigation, where there is no collusion. Democrat party wants the civil war!
WindBourne opened strongly with a lie about American beef. Directly contradicting the link in the post he responded to. No excuse for that one.
Then he quickly followed up with a two for one. Claiming America makes the most Electric vehicles and buys the most efficient air conditioners.
He was really on a roll, as almost immediately he posted this set of lies, claiming China has the worse air conditioning efficiency (they are better than America) and falsely accusing someone else of lying (even though they showed links).
He also doubled down on his lies Replying to a linked IEA report with some random blog that didn't even agree with him anyway.
Thinking that wasn't enough lies, he then falsely claimed again someone else was lying. He also attempted to lie about what his link said and tried to pretend he proved the other person was a liar. Quite a ballsy move, he must have been getting quite desperate.
Lastly to round out the week he went back to one of his longtime favourite lies. Claiming China is 80% coal.
So in summary, lies about beef, lies about electric vehicles, lies about air conditioning, lies about coal, and the standard "falsely calling everyone else a liar".
Will this be the new baseline for his level of lying or was this week just an outlier?
Tune in next week to find out.
Do you feel better? Did you make the world a better place? Is arguing with a troll ever worthwhile?
Winning internet arguments, Special Olympics, etc.
Here's your medal.
If they were that powerful, that email server would mysteriously disappear.
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Twitter is full of twats. :)
For a happy life, avoid Twitter.
(At least, don’t read the comments to the people you follow. )
L'Idiot
He isn't the slightest bit gullible and never just believes what he is told as long as it fits his narrative.
America never hacks or spies on anyone either so buy CISCO.
Do you feel better?
Yep.
I don't overdo it (that'll kill you) but a troll a week (or thereabouts) is cathartic.
I & YOU TOO can be from there in seconds making it LOOK that way easily via VPN's, proxies, TOR etc. so WHO are they fooling other than themselves?
* Give us a break - let's see some ABSOLUTELY SOLID attribution (nigh impossible to produce what-w/ the web structured as it is)
APK
P.S.=> France is showing you ALL what's what - they have BALLS & are kicking OUT the FAKE NEWS owners crap out of them when Macron essentially tried to BRIBE THEM no less (which imo REALLY set them off more in the YELLOW VESTS insulting them) - good for France - now USA, do the same, do the RIGHT THING & get rid of these PURVEYORS OF DECEIT... apk
"Twitter observed a large amount of traffic to the customer support site coming from individual internet IP addresses in China and Saudi Arabia."