Memo looks like a nothing burger... Read it here

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Cuddles, Feb 2, 2018.

  1. #161     Feb 5, 2018
  2. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    I posted this somewhere in a different thread. Again, Russian "interference" was nothing more than facebook and twitter accounts posting support for all candidates and trying to create disharmony. They aren't interested in Clinton, or Trump, or Bernie. They're interested in discord. And we're giving it to them in spades.
     
    #162     Feb 5, 2018
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  3. You're downplaying it. Yes, they wanted to create discord. But they favored Trump because he could be easily played: they just had to aim at his ego.
     
    #163     Feb 5, 2018
  4. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Perhaps. But to say they influenced the election is total hyperbole.

    Facebook executive Colin Stretch told the US Senate Judiciary Committee in November that the total number of those illegitimate ads are a drop in the ocean — less than 0.004 percent of all content — or about 1 in 23,000 news feed items.
     
    #164     Feb 5, 2018
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  5. Facebook said it can't substantiate or disprove collusion.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...nsignificant-overlap-between-russia-ads-trump

    But we have already established that russian ads were specifically targeted to have maximum effect.

    https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/russian-facebook-ads-michigan-wisconsin/index.html

    It would be interesting to find out how they were able to target with such specificity. I wonder whose help they might have had...
     
    #165     Feb 5, 2018
  6. Tom B

    Tom B

    #166     Feb 5, 2018
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  8. UsualName

    UsualName

    Cambridge analylitica has some explaining to do, for sure. And don’t believe for one second social media campaigns are not influential. If they weren’t why would campaigns spend 10s of millions of dollars on them.

    The Russians engaged in a highly coordinated and targeted social media campaign to suppress support for Clinton and increase support for Trump. That is not in dispute, refer to any intelligence agency for guidance on that. There is an investigation to determine whether there was illegal acceptance of “things of value” from various levels of the Trump campaign during the election. Of that, we will see.
     
    #168     Feb 5, 2018
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  9. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    Folks, the left is tripping all over themselves to "educate" you that there was nothing in the memo. ---Make no mistake though, this memo was an absolutely Earth shaking bombshell. In addition, it's likely only about 10 percent's worth of the revelations that will be coming out. (I expect the Grassley memo later this week or early next). I continue to hear people talk about how this was just about Carter Page. ---Then why wasn't anything from the Carter Page investigation that started earlier used in the FISA application???. ------This FISA warrant was about one thing and one thing only and that is to be able to tap Page to hear and learn of any contacts with Trump past or present or any discussions Page may have had with others about Trump-----The FISA warrant was a way to "Get Trump" . You're a fool or miscreant if you think otherwise. ---Page had been looked at for 3 years prior to this and they could have tried a FISA anytime but chose this time???----Folks, Get Right!
     
    #169     Feb 5, 2018
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  10. RRY16

    RRY16

    Your complaint is noted, now get back to paper trading the ES.
     
    #170     Feb 5, 2018