Daily Caller:
DEMOCRATS RAN RUSSIAN BOT ‘FALSE FLAG’ OPERATION IN ALABAMA — AND MEDIA FELL FOR IT
Democratic operatives created thousands of Twitter accounts posing as Russian bots in order to boost Alabama Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in the October 2017 special election by linking his Republican opponent, Roy Moore, to Russian influence campaigns.
The operatives, who were funded by liberal billionaire Reid Hoffman independently of Jones’s campaign, created more than a thousand Russian-language accounts that followed Moore’s Twitter account overnight, The New York Times reported Wednesday evening.
Hoffman gave the operatives $100,000 for their project, which included creating fake conservative Facebook accounts to dissuade voters from supporting Moore, according to the Times.
“We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet,” the operatives recounted in an internal report obtained by the Times.
Media outlets — both in Alabama and nationally — fell for the ploy and amplified the false narrative in October 2017.
The Montgomery Advertiser, an Alabama affiliate of USA Today, was the first to run with the story. Brian Lyman, the reporter on that story, did not immediately return The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. National media outlets quickly seized upon Lyman’s story.
“Roy Moore flooded with fake Russian Twitter followers,” read the headline on a New York Post story, which cited the Advertiser.
Left-wing publication Mother Jones cited the same report in a story titled, “Russian Propagandists Are Pushing for Roy Moore to Win.” That report didn’t rely exclusively on the fake Twitter followers, citing Russian media’s favorable coverage of Moore.
The Washington Post focused its story on the fact that Moore blamed Democrats for the fake accounts.
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Who’s to say the Democrats aren’t behind ALL the “Russian” interference? Could this be why Obama blocked efforts to defend against it in 2016? After all, how much difference is there between anti-American Russians and anti-American Democrats?
@Deplorable Me: https://www.gofundme.com/thetrumpwall now go post it where ever you can it is making liberal heads implode.
@kitt: How much have you and Bill B donated? How bout O5 and RT–where is he?
The 9.5 year bull market starting in 2009 and rising 150% during Obama Admin then rising another 60% under DT has officially ended-today with a confirming sell-off in 3 of 5 major indicii indicators including Dow –Nasdaq and S and P on the brink
Trump took credit for the rise 19,500–29,000 on the Dow for instance—Will he own the sell-off to 22,900?–There will be rallies but the bear confirmation today could mean we’ll see a full retracement to 19,500 in 2019–literally wiping out ALL Trump gains that he bragged about—Of course as is his want to do he’ll blame someone or something else for this fall
Reality– As a former broker I’ve said it’s legalized gambling–Trump deserved little credit for it’s rise and not all the blame for it’s fall
At this point–sell on rallies–start buying under 2000
@Richard Wheeler: The fed is raising interest rates, unnecessarily. This is creating the sell off, possibly an intentional effort to wreck the economy and blame Trump. Don’t discount it as fantastic; some of your liberals have been dreaming of it.
@Deplorable Me: Rates were too low too long under Obama and Trump—-debt has continued to rise —markets were long overdue to tumble—smart money was out 6 months ago—-little guy is now going into panic mode—IRA’S getting hammered with more to come.
Like I said DT should not have bragged so much—now he owns the sell-off as well.
@Richard Wheeler: They were ZERO under Obama and, of course, the fed wouldn’t raise them for fear of cratering Obama’s fragile economy (every time it was rumored they were going to rise, the markets tanked). The fed didn’t want to do anything to cause Obama any embarrassment.
Since then, they’ve jacked it up 2.75%. It could very well be intentional. The left doesn’t care who gets hurt when they are trying to make themselves appear to be a better choice. Now, compare that attitude to the hand wringing over a few hundred federal employees that the Democrats will be putting out of work by being obstinate over the border wall.