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👌🏼: The CEO of New Knowledge — the US gov’t-aligned firm that published a recent (& universally, credulously parroted) Senate report Russian social media interference —has been suspended from Facebook for running a fake election interference operation. washingtonpost.com/technology/201…
Shout out to everyone — and I mean, everyone, you’d be shocked who — took this report on the dire Russian social media threat seriously.
Also hilarious/telling here is acknowledgement that a $100k operation that “imitated Russian tactics” was too small to impact 2017 Alabama Senate race. Given that, how could even more microscopic Russian tactics have impacted a $2.5b 2016
election? nyti.ms/2GtEkuw?smid=n…
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My new piece on what the recent Senate studies about Russian social media posts actually show: a juvenile, microscopic operation massively over-hyped by political elites, pundits, & "experts" with sketchy agendas & contemptuous views of average voters:
thenation.com/article/russia…
Some points to stress: 1) it's tough to suggest that Russian clickbait helped decide the 2016 election when even the Senate authors acknowledge that just "11% of the total content" from Russian trolls "was related to the election", & their posts "minimally about the candidates."
2) the widespread claim that Russian trolls reached 126M on Facebook is in fact a spin on Facebook's own "estimate":
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1/ What happened to Reality Winner is an injustice. But @theIntercept compounds it & is journalistically derelict by continuing to a) avoid owning up to its own role & b) pretend she exposed a Russian intel operation, when they are fully aware she didn’t. theintercept.com/2018/12/23/rea…
2) re: a), here’s Glenn Greenwald, per the New Yorker:

“The site ‘fucked up,’ Greenwald said. He added that, if he didn’t work there, he might be wondering aloud why nobody was fired.”

newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
3) The same accountability we’ve all sought from the Guardian over the Manafort-Assange story should also be sought over TI’s Russian vote hacking story. They’re not perfectly analogous, but what GG says here about the Guardian story also applies to TI: theintercept.com/amp/it-is-poss…
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I wish the people who lost to a reality TV host could spend a single second on self-reflection. They might find that they lost because of their own failures, not 3rd party candidates & Russian troll farm employees. But alas, too many powerful neoliberals have duped themselves:
Russiagate is a massive case of elite projection. We often project when we don’t want to face reality. I’ll be writing about this soon.
For the blocked:
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Federal prosecutors indict a #Russian🇷🇺woman alleged to be the chief accountant of an *ONGOING* Kremlin campaign to influence 2018 ELECTIONS in the US & EU (including troll farm Internet Research Agency) financed by "Putin's Chef," Yevgeniy Prigozhin.🤬

cnn.com/2018/10/19/pol…
One major #Russian🇷🇺social-media theme was to exploit white supremacy👉🏼trolling NFL protests against #racist policing, #immigration, the Confederate flag & “the #Charlottesville ‘Unite The Right’ rally” that killed Heather Heyer in Aug'17.

Goal: INFLAME and DIVIDE US.🤬
Pivoting off a piece by "right-wing blowhard" Michael Savage, the #Russians🇷🇺 sought to “forcefully support” Savage’s message that “any attempt to remove Trump is a direct path to **civil war** in the US."😳
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Infamous St. Petersburg 'Troll Factory' Set on Fire

The Fontanka news website cited police as saying that an unknown suspect broke the agency’s ground-floor window and threw a Molotov cocktail inside at around 3 a.m. on Tuesday.
themoscowtimes.com/news/infamous-…
Video of the Internet Research Agency fire:
Twitter releases archived posts from more than 3,800 Russian troll accounts thebea.st/2CQ81ne
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If Facebook is suddenly interested in removing fake Russian accounts, why is all this other fake Russian material still up? thinkprogress.org/if-facebook-is…
The "Texas in my Heart" account—no contact info, went live last year, now has nearly 40,000 followers—has posted dozens of things from the Russian "Heart of Texas" page. It's still up. thinkprogress.org/if-facebook-is…
Numerous state-chapter Instagram accounts of the Russian "South United" page, all advocating a new Confederacy, live on. They're still up. thinkprogress.org/if-facebook-is…
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💣BOOM💣

THREAD: In summer 2016, George Nader (representing Saudi Arabia & UAE) and an Israeli specialist in "social media manipulation" offered to help **THROW THE ELECTION** in a meeting w/Trump Jr arranged by Erik Prince‼️ 1/

nytimes.com/2018/05/19/us/…
At the Aug'16 #treason meet, Nader told Jr the crown princes of #SaudiArabia & #UAE were "eager to help his father win." The Israeli social media expert's (Joel Zamel) firm had already drawn up a multimillion $ proposal for a social media manipulation effort to help Trump.🤨 2/
Zamel's social media company #Wikistrat, which employed several Israeli former intelligence officers, specialized in "collecting information & shaping opinion through social media."🤨

Gee, that sounds familiar‼️🤬 3/

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🛑BREAKING🛑

Following his #indictment of #Russians🇷🇺for social media trolling and illegal-ad-buying, #Mueller is assembling a CRIMINAL CHARGES against Russians who HACKED and LEAKED private info designed to hurt Democrats in the election‼️ 1/

nbcnews.com/politics/2016-…
Mueller's newest charges are expected to rely heavily on secret intelligence gathered by the CIA, FBI, NSA and Homeland Security (DHS).😎 2/

#FVEY
#TrumpRussia
Potential charges include violations of statutes on #conspiracy, election law, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). One source said the charges are not imminent, but other knowledgeable sources said they are expected in the next few weeks or months.🤗 3/

#TrumpRussia
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