Also on November 5, Bannon started his own "Stop the Steal" Facebook group; he changed the name to "Own Your Vote" the following day. It was not removed by Facebook, but they did later remove several other pages affiliated with Bannon.
Roger Stone and Steve Bannon have been in full disinformation mode. Stone has appeared on the show of far-right radio commentator Alex Jones to trumpet groundless claims that Biden is trying to steal the election. cnn.com/2020/11/13/bus…
Bannon is echoing similar conspiracy theories on his podcast, calling the election "a mass fraud."
"Stop the Steal is a highly coordinated partisan political operation intent on bringing together conspiracy theorists, militias, hate groups & Trump supporters to attack the integrity of our election."
Some of the violent rhetoric associated with the campaign has come from its own leaders.
"Clean your guns," said Dustin Stockton, one of the administrators of the Facebook Stop the Steal group.
"Things are going to get worse before they get better."
In 2016: A federal suit filed in Ohio, for instance, accused Stone's Stop the Steal project of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by "conspiring to intimidate, threaten, harass, or coerce voters on Election Day."
"I'm thinking about bringing Stop the Steal out of retirement," said right wing activist Ali Alexander, in a video he circulated on social media in September. "In the next coming days we are going to build the infrastructure to stop the steal."
Many of these protests have been organized by prominent, well-funded pro-Trump groups such as Tea Party Patriots, Women for America First, TPUSA and Freedom Works USA ADAM BRANDON
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Stop the Steal's massive disinformation campaign connected to Roger Stone
📌It is an internet battle cry: Stop the Steal has swept across inboxes, Facebook pages and Twitter like an out-of-control virus, spreading misinformation and violent rhetoric
Roger Stone, Bernard Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, David Schoen, Kotcha Lee of American Priorities, Arthur Schwartz, Rick Grenell, Michael Flynn, John Cardillo, Fox News’ Mike Clemente, Charlie Kirk...
And Laura Loomer, Rev. Randy Coggins, Pastor Greg Locke, Pastor Mark Burns, Reverend Darrell Scott, Pastor Brian Gibson, Pastor Rod Parsley, Monsignor Grady, Eric Metaxas, David Brody, Clay Clark and Reverend Franklin Graham,
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It appears the Russians searched for potentially embarrassing material on the Bidens — the same kind of information that Trump wanted from Ukraine when he pressed for an inv’n of the Bidens and Burisma. nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/…
The Russian tactics are strikingly similar to what American intelligence agencies say was Russia’s hacking of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Then, as now, the Russian hackers from a military intelligence unit known formerly as the G.R.U., and to private researchers by the alias “Fancy Bear,” used so-called phishing emails that appear designed to steal usernames and passwords. nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/…