Russia’s propaganda operation is failing

exGOPer · Mar 13, 2022

Good1 said:
The Nazi's were expanding eastward, and if Stalin would have heeded the rhetoric of Mein Kampf, would not have gotten into a deal with Hitler to divide Poland, let the Nazis move closer to his border, and be lulled to sleep by a treaty. Putin is not a Stalin, much as you'd like us to believe. Today, the threat to Russia is the increasingly Nazified DNC, under a few people in the top echelon's of the US. Putin is avoiding a repeat situation where the DNC is about to move more heavily into Ukraine, and from there, be able to stage greater threats to Russia. The DNC has published it's own version of Mien Kampf, with all of the rhetoric it has spawned over the last 8, and especially the last 4 years. If you put all of the DNC rhetoric into a book it would be more outrageous than anything Hitler ever thought or wrote. So Putin is making sure the DNC, with a fraudulent (stole an election) senile old kermudger as it's chief puppet, can't get any closer to his borders. This prevention by aggression is very much a response to DNC attitudes over the past eight years. Putin sees that Nazi-esque attitude spreading into Ukraine at an uncomfortable pace. And he needs to do something about it before Trump is re-elected. There just isn't time to wait for Trump to either negotiate something they've always wanted, Ukraine neutrality, or for Trump to make threats about their current response.
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El OchoCinco · Mar 13, 2022

I think Good1 was dropped on his head as a child and is on the spectrum

Good1 · Mar 14, 2022

El OchoCinco said:
I think Good1 was dropped on his head as a child and is on the spectrum
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The DNC uses racism to pander for votes.
The Nazis used racism to pander for votes.

Hitler had a deep hatred for Russia both ethnically, and politically.
The DNC has a deep hatred for Russia, both ethnically, and politically.

Hitler moved closer to Russia, from where he could stage a surprise attack.
The DNC has been toying with the status of Ukraine, and has it's finger in there.

Putin is not going to allow them to launch a surprise attack.

Very simple.

Cuddles · Mar 14, 2022

gwb-trading said:
For many years Russia has been running a world-wide propaganda operation via social media. As Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social network outlets finally take firm steps to suspend their operations we are seeing the entire operation fall apart.

One telling result is that typical keyword pushed every week by these propaganda accounts on social media have fallen out of the high rankings - reducing the influence greatly of the false information being pushed by Russia whether it be about the Ukraine conflict, Covid misinformation, or the "Freedom Convoys". All these talking points from Russia all had the intent of undermining western democracies and turning people against each other. Another example is that a majority of earlier BLM material was astro-turfed out of Russia -- which means that Russia was attempting to cause conflict & unrest in our streets.

‘Russia’s propaganda operation is flailing worldwide’ as Twitter cracks down on astroturfing: report
https://www.rawstory.com/russia-propaganda/

Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to have overestimated his ability to control the narrative over his invasion of Ukraine, according to a new report by NBC News.

"Russia's propaganda operation is flailing worldwide. It doesn't appear like it had a plan for the war not being over with by now," NBC News reporter Ben Collins posted to Twitter. "Russian propaganda just didn't have a plan for the war going this badly. I've been covering it for years and have never seen them caught this far off guard."

Collins' analysis came after he and Natasha Korecki reported that "Twitter has banned more than 100 accounts that pushed the pro-Russian hashtag #IStandWithPutin for participating in 'coordinated inauthentic behavior,' days after the hashtag trended on Twitter amid the invasion in Ukraine."

The two said the inauthentic activity was discovered by Marc Owen Jones, an assistant professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar.

“People throw the term bots around a lot, but what we saw here was lots of accounts demonstrating inauthentic activity and astroturfing,” Jones said. “They’re not bots. They’re a lot harder to check than that. Imagine a call center setup. Think of the amount of damage you can do.”

The report comes as Russia blocked Facebook in the country.

Andrew Gonzalez, an analyst with the digital analysis firm Omelas says it may be too late for Putin to shift the sympathy for Ukraine.

“Russia isn’t getting the same impact of its audiences as it historically has gotten,” Gonzalez said. “The audience is certainly believing more so the Western portrayal that it’s a tragedy for Ukraine and Russia is the aggressor. That narrative is quite firm right now.”

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This is rich coming from one of the biggest Russia water carrying propagandists on this site:

gwb-trading said:
Microsoft: "Hey, investigators, Russia might have bought ads on Bing, too, to influence the election. Hey, why are you laughing? Stop that"
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-confirms-investigation-into-whether-russians-1819304403
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gwb-trading said:
The intent of the Russian campaign was not to support one candidate or another but to divide America by exploiting our prejudices...

How Russia’s Propaganda Campaign Exploited America’s Prejudices
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/how-russian-social-media-posts-exploit-american-prejudices

Reporters and analysts have long suspected and, over the past several weeks, confirmed that Russian cyberactors were running propaganda campaigns under the noses of three major tech companies—Facebook, Twitter and Google—during the 2016 elections. Even Microsoft’s Bing network reportedly sold ads to the Russians.

Those interlocking propaganda campaigns didn’t consist of merely stumping for Donald Trump or deriding Hillary Clinton. Instead, most of the ads unearthed thus far appear to have been devoted to reinforcing the American electorate’s own prejudices; that gambit appears terribly obvious and unsubtle in hindsight, as the contents of the ads continue to trickle out in the press. But no one spotted it at the time.

For example, YouTube videos recently uncovered by the Daily Beast feature two black men with African accents calling Clinton an “evildoer” next to a Black Lives Matter logo. One meme posted on a Russian troll-operated Facebook account read—with a dropped article worthy of Boris Badenov—“Why do I have a gun? Because it’s easier for my family to get me out of jail than out of cemetery.”

Facebook has said the Russian-bought ads were probably viewed 10 million times; Columbia University professor Jonathan Albright has suggested that the ads actually were viewed hundreds of millions, and possibly billions, of times. Nevertheless, such examples of ham-handed propaganda likely didn’t raise eyebrows at the time because the function of social media is to affirm its users, said Gordon Borrell, CEO of ad industry analytics firm Borrell Associates.

On Facebook, as opposed to a medium like television, “you’re able to hone in on someone who will likely vote Republican or will likely vote Democrat and hold on to them a bit more,” Borrell told TPM. “You don’t see a lot of crossover. They’ll hold onto you as a voter—at least that’s what [social media] campaigns appear to do.”

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gwb-trading said:
You do realize that most of these sites are funded by governments that disagree with Russia and desire to call anything that comes out of RT "fake news" or propaganda.

Keep in mind that I don't disagree with most information about Russia's role in the Ukraine. However people need to understand that RT is more trusted world-wide than most U.S. media outlets. This is a problem that U.S. outlets (both liberal and conservative) brought on themselves by becoming entertainment networks rather than news networks.
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gwb-trading said:
So this is basically confirmation that the FBI bugged Trump buildings, eh?
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gwb-trading said:
Julian Assange associate: It was a leak, not a hack and the DNC insider is NOT Russian
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/12...-leak-not-hack-dnc-insider-not-russian-422765

A hole has been blown in the Democratic Party, and mainstream media’s narrative, that Russia was behind the leak of DNC emails to Wikileaks.

On Sunday, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, said he has met the person who gave the DNC emails and it was not the Russians.

“I know who leaked them,” Murray told The Guardian. “I’ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it’s an insider. It’s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things.

Murray, who is a close associate of Wikileaks head Julian Assange, explained it further on his website.

“As Julian Assange has made crystal clear, the leaks did not come from the Russians. As I have explained countless times, they are not hacks, they are insider leaks – there is a major difference between the two,” he wrote. “And it should be said again and again, that if Hillary Clinton had not connived with the DNC to fix the primary schedule to disadvantage Bernie, if she had not received advance notice of live debate questions to use against Bernie, if she had not accepted massive donations to the Clinton foundation and family members in return for foreign policy influence, if she had not failed to distance herself from some very weird and troubling people, then none of this would have happened.”

It’s the reality that so many in the mainstream media ignore. It wasn’t about who leaked the emails. It was about what they said.

Assange himself vehemently denied Russia had any involvement in the hacks during an interview right before Election Day.
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gwb-trading said:
Intel committee chairman: Report on Russia meddling conflicts with DNI testimony
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ia-meddling-conflicts-with-dni-testimony.html

The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says a reported CIA assessment that Russian government actors interfered in the U.S. election to help Donald Trump win conflicts with the mid-November public testimony from the nation’s intelligence chief, according to a new letter obtained by Fox News.

In a letter Monday to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said, "On November 17, 2016 you told the Committee during an open hearing that the IC (Intelligence Community) lacked strong evidence connecting Russian government Cyber-attacks and Wikileaks disclosures."

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gwb-trading said:
4 Reasons Russia Didn’t Swing The Election To Trump
http://www.dailywire.com/news/11546/4-reasons-russia-didnt-swing-election-trump-ben-shapiro

Democrats are over the moon about the new Washington Post report that quotes CIA sources who say that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government actively attempted to aid Donald Trump in his election race against Hillary Clinton. Many Democrats have been making the claim that if not for Putin’s intervention – if not for Russian hackers accessing emails from Hillary campaign chief John Podesta and then releasing them via WikiLeaks for months – Hillary Clinton would today be the president-elect.

There’s no evidence to support that.

There is plenty of evidence to support the contrary notion, actually.

1. Hillary Tanked Because Of Comey. When FBI Director James Comey announced on October 28 that the FBI had reopened their investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, the iceberg hit the Titanic. The gushing hole the FBI announcement represented can’t be overstated. As Nate Silver pointed out over the weekend, “Late-deciding voters broke strongly against Clinton in swing states, enough to cost her MI/WI/PA.” According to Silver, “Clinton would almost certainly be President-elect if the election had been held on Oct. 27 (day before Comey letter).” The Comey reopening happened because of discoveries made during the Anthony Weiner investigation, not because of WikiLeaks.

2. Hillary Was Wildly Unpopular The Entire Election Cycle. The notion that WikiLeaks pushed Hillary’s unpopularity is unsupported by the evidence. An Economist/YouGov poll taken January 15-January 19, 2016 showed that just 38 percent of voters saw Hillary favorably, compared with 56 percent who viewed her unfavorably; that same poll showed her at 43 percent to 56 percent on November 4 through November 7. Hillary was always an awful candidate, and most Americans knew that for the entire election cycle.

3. The Major WikiLeaks Revelations Weren’t Major Enough. The most serious WikiLeaks revelations about Clinton broke late in the campaign: Donna Brazile channeling debate questions to Hillary Clinton during her campaign with Bernie Sanders, Hillary aides attacking Catholics, Hillary working with the Clinton Foundation. But none of those had any marked impact on her poll numbers. It was the Comey revelations that damaged her severely – she seemed to be stabilizing just before the Comey news broke.

4. It Wasn’t Putin’s Fault Hillary Didn’t Visit The Swing States. Hillary’s team blew it. She didn’t show up in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. According to Huffington Post, “In Michigan alone, a senior battleground state operative told HuffPost that the state party and local officials were running at roughly one-tenth the paid canvasser capacity that Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) had when he ran for president in 2004…. A similar situation unfolded in Wisconsin. According to several operatives there, the campaign’s state office and local officials scrambled to raise nearly $1 million for efforts to get out the vote in the closing weeks.” Hillary assumed she had the campaign in the bag, and in the final weeks, she treated it that way, spending time in states that weren’t competitive rather than those that were.

Is it serious stuff that Putin attempted to influence an American election by hacking an American institution like the DNC? Of course. It was impeachable when Richard Nixon bugged Democratic headquarters in 1972 – it’s not exactly small news when the Russians effectively do the same thing to Democrats in 2016. But just as Nixon’s bugging didn’t cost McGovern the election in 1972, there’s little evidence to suggest that Putin’s interference stopped Hillary Clinton from becoming president-elect.
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gwb-trading said:

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gwb-trading said:
Let's make one point clear up front. Podesta did not get hacked from a foreign government in some type of complex hacking scheme. Podesta got hacked from a simple fake "you need to change your password" phishing email. The origins of this email and associated servers were not linked to Russia in any manner.
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gwb-trading said:
The Podesta "hack" is well documented in the network security community. Any network security expert who looks through the available details will know that it was not Russia.

Now the hack of the Democratic party servers is not documented in detail. It may (or may not) be a state player (like Russia). More details would need to be made available to the network security community to arrive at any type of conclusion.
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gwb-trading said:
Here is today's fake news from CNN...

Intel report: Putin directly ordered effort to influence election
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/06/politics/intelligence-report-putin-election/index.html
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gwb-trading said:
Here is the direct link to the federal government report on "Russian hacking" for those who want to read the direct 25 page source.

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
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gwb-trading said:
It is amazing that all the report does is outline how the media coverage on Russia Today was an attempt to influence our election.

What an incredible bias coming from Huffpo and CNN. This is why an increasing number of people in the U.S. don't trust the media.
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gwb-trading said:
Russia hacked the Democrats fifty years ago. They've been Communists ever since. There is no news here.

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gwb-trading · Mar 14, 2022

Cuddles said:
This is rich coming from one of the biggest Russia water carrying propagandists on this site:
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So simply reporting the news that Russia has used social media and news outlets for years in an attempt to divide people in the West makes me a “Russian water carrying propagandist”. Amusing. You really should try harder when you shovel stuff from your manure pile.

Cuddles · Mar 14, 2022

gwb-trading said:
So simply reporting the news that Russia has used social media and news outlets for years in an attempt to divide people in the West makes me a “Russian water carrying propagandist”. Amusing. You really should try harder when you shovel stuff from your manure pile.
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gwb-trading · Mar 14, 2022

YouTube blocks Russian state-funded media channels globally
https://www.reuters.com/business/me...te-funded-media-channels-globally-2022-03-11/

Van_der_Voort_4 · Mar 14, 2022

gwb-trading · Mar 14, 2022

Van_der_Voort_4 said:

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ASB is one of the main accounts pushing completely false Russian propaganda.

Van_der_Voort_4 · Mar 14, 2022