At first glance—with headlines such as “Sleepy Joe Set Politics Back 180 Years,” “BLM Body Count,” and “Trump Paid Zero Taxes? Good for Him”—it doesn’t look much different from hundreds of other Trumpist news sites that rage against Democrats and the elitist mainstream media. But the clunkily titled “Newsroom for American and European Based Citizens,” or NAEBC, was on Thursday exposed as a Russian front reportedly linked to the Internet Research Agency—the Kremlin-backed troll farm behind much of the interference in the 2016 U.S. election. There were some warning signs: NAEBC appears to be a pun on a Russian word meaning to “screw over,” and its slogan tells readers: “Don’t get yourself fooled.” The veil was lifted on NAEBC by the Reuters news agency, which reported the FBI has been investigating the pretend pro-Trump media outlet. It’s only been a month since the FBI exposed the fake left-wing news organization, Peacedata, as another project run by Putin’s internet troll army. The two sites are the latest evidence that the Kremlin isn’t just backing one horse in the U.S. election—it’s pushing for as much chaos as possible. Putin’s Troll Farm Busted Running Sprawling Network of Facebook Pages Unlike Peacedata, which mainly targeted overseas readers, NAEBC focuses almost entirely on U.S. politics and current events with a clear slant toward President Donald Trump and Republicans. According to Reuters, the fake outlet was set up in June and pays real U.S. freelancers to write about politically charged issues, and then a network of fake accounts pushes that content to online spaces used by right-wing Trump supporters. For example, take the site’s latest lead article on the Tuesday night’s presidential debate. While even Trump’s most starry-eyed supporters found themselves let down by his performance, NAEBC ran the audacious headline: “The Five Strategic Goals Trump Masterfully Achieved in the First Presidential Debate.” The badly written article, apparently reproduced from a separate blog, reads: “President Trump had a war strategy, and he achieved all of his strategic goals.” Another recent article praises the ingenuity of Trump for managing to pay pitiful amounts of income taxes over the past decade, as was reported last Sunday by The New York Times. Again, the NAEBC article seems to be lifted from a different blog, and it reads: “Even if the account is true, the only appropriate response is: good for him, on several counts.” Aside from deifying Trump, the site is fond of denigrating the Black Lives Matter movement, referring to civil-rights protesters as “rioters” and falsely claiming that demonstrations have led to a “record number of mass shootings” in America. An August headline from the site asks and answers the question: “Was the Cop’s Knee on George Floyd’s Neck ‘Racism’? No!” Leaked Documents Show Russian Trolls Tried to Infiltrate Left-Wing Media Reuters’ Jack Stubbs reports that, while the site had a presence on Twitter and LinkedIn—where fake accounts tried to whip up support and outrage for the articles—NAEBC failed to attract much attention on the most popular social media sites. However, on Gab and Parler—two platforms enjoyed by right-wing users—the site gained more traction. Following the Reuters report, the fake site has been locked out of the top social networks—LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook—but Parler said the company didn’t know what NAEBC was, and Gab hasn’t commented. The website itself is still accessible as of Thursday morning. An unnamed U.S. security official told Reuters that NAEBC is the latest example of “unwitting Americans” being recruited to help the Kremlin sow its chaos before Election Day. Ben Nimmo, head of investigations at social-media analytics firm Graphika, which reviewed the site for Reuters, said it’s the latest piece of evidence that Russian interference in U.S. elections has evolved to become even more insidious than it was in 2016. However, Nimmo explained: “The overall strategy looks unchanged: Energize Trump supporters, depress support for Biden, and target both sides with divisive and polarizing messages.” https://news.yahoo.com/wing-trumpist-news-busted-putin-132724682.html
This election is going to be remember as the Chinese trolls trying to infiltrate America in favor of the Democrats and the Russia trolls trying to infiltrate America in favor of the Republicans. Scary to say after seeing all the social media behaviour online including Elitetrader.com Its Russia versus China...no longer America because Russia / China will ensure there's no common ground in America that's no longer the United States. Russia / China has weaponized social media in a brilliant but sad way including forums. Splinter a country...easy to conquer that country. At the minimum, they're fighting to compromise a political party. wrbtrader
Don't remember any specific "recent" examples of social media accounts being shut down by Facebook / Twitter that were running out of China or Russia but they've been in the news on both sides. I'm sure its easy to search on Google if it really interest you for examples. The issue is that Facebook / Twitter has identified them...what about other social media sites including financial forums. I can easily imagine those trolls infiltrating and then posting both in support of and against presidential candidates. It will be interesting to see how TikTok, WeChat, Sina Weibo and Tencent QQ flourish in the U.S. markets. wrbtrader
So not a single example but you are sure it's happening? Doesn't even have to be recent, show anything at all or stop making 'both sides' BS claims, it only hurts the truth.
You do understand that Putin promotes the lefties in order to help Trump? Trying to dissuade Bernie types from supporting Biden is their goal. If you clicked on the very article you pointed out to me, you would have known that. Feds Tip Off Facebook to New Russian Troll Campaign That Targeted Biden
I'm sure you know how to use Google or Bing. Just type the words in the search engine. Seriously, I'm not going to do the search for you. The trolls have infiltrated both sides and to think they've done such one side only is very naive. One article stated the following from many other articles monitoring both Russia and China. This specific article stated the following about China... The vast majority of the accounts (78.5%) had no followers and 95% had fewer than eight followers, but those accounts had a high level of engagement, albeit not organic. That pointed to the use of commercial bot networks, the research said. A total of 156 tweets from accounts with no followers received more than 50 likes, and 26 tweets from accounts with no followers received more than 10 retweets. wrbtrader