Hamilton 68 - New site that tracks Russian bots and trolls on the Twit

[DrLove]

This is really interesting and something that needed to be done. Much of the crap these idiots spew plays both sides of highly divisive issues such as gun control following the school shooting. The clear intent is to sow discord with regards to issues that are already highly divisive in this country.

Also interesting are the top domains listed: Hannity, PJ Media, TruePundit, RT, ZeroHedge - etc etc etc. IOW, some of of the favorite fake news go-to's for our RW pals.

Something to keep an eye on. Don't get played Trumplings.

Hamilton 68: Tracking Putin's Propaganda Push... To America

This was spearheaded by one of the most brilliant minds on the topic, former FBI special agent Clint Watts. Some background:

A new website named after a Founding Father is tracking Russian propaganda in real time

 

[shockedcanadian]

This is really interesting and something that needed to be done. Much of the crap these idiots spew plays both sides of highly divisive issues such as gun control following the school shooting. The clear intent is to sow discord with regards to issues that are already highly divisive in this country.

Also interesting are the top domains listed: Hannity, PJ Media, TruePundit, RT, ZeroHedge - etc etc etc. IOW, some of of the favorite fake news go-to's for our RW pals.

Something to keep an eye on. Don't get played Trumplings.

Hamilton 68: Tracking Putin's Propaganda Push... To America

This was spearheaded by one of the most brilliant minds on the topic, former FBI special agent Clint Watts. Some background:

A new website named after a Founding Father is tracking Russian propaganda in real time

That's fine, but if you are looking for external influence in your election, twitter is far from the leader. Why not start with Foundations and foreign money? We even had foreign leaders weighing in on Trump. It's disgusting how much effort the globalist put into destroying America.

Russian bots are a far weaker threat to America than say, China expanding their military, building land on sea and taking thousands of factories that were once American.

 

[DrLove]

That's fine, but if you are looking for external influence in your election, twitter is far from the leader. Why not start with Foundations and foreign money? We even had foreign leaders weighing in on Trump. It's disgusting how much effort the globalist put into destroying America.

Russian bots are a far weaker threat to America than say, China expanding their military, building land on sea and taking thousands of factories that were once American.

Russia - their disinformation and their meddling are by far the largest threat at present to our democracy.

 

[Witchit]

This thread is not exactly new, but the article I found falls right in and I can't see starting a new one.

Study: Conservatives amplified Russian trolls 30 times more often than liberals in 2016

Twitter users in Texas and Tennessee were particularly susceptible.

That conservatives are seemingly prone to spread content from Russian trolls or junk news isn’t a matter of intelligence — it might be because they are more attuned to threats, even if those threats aren’t real. A study published in the journal Psychological Science (and cited by the Atlantic) found that right-leaning people are often hyper-attuned to what they perceive as potential hazards and tend to believe signs of danger rather than ignore them.

“Conservatives approach the situation from the start with greater reactivity to threat, a greater prior belief to the level of danger in the world, so it is logical for the conservative to take more seriously information about hazards than the liberal does,” Daniel Fessler, the University of California Los Angeles professor behind the study, told the Atlantic’s Olga Khazan.

Other researchers have also found that beyond risk perception, liberals appear to have more of a need to think critically than conservatives. In a conversation with the Washington Post’s Christopher Ingraham, professor Stefan Pfattheicher of Ulm University noted it’s not a question of intelligence, just ways of thinking. “This seems to be more a matter of motivation to process information (or news) in a critical, reflective thinking style than the ability to do so,” he said.

Very interesting read, lots of citations/links to other studies/articles.

 

[badger2]

#3 has taken the propagandist bait, and we agree with #4, the conservative link is found in Isthmus 22-28 Feb 2018 "Same Old Song: Once Again a Conservative Will Face Off Against a Liberal in High Court Race."
'....Conservatives have won five of the last seven contested state Supreme Court contests, aided by a total of $12 million in spending by outside groups, compared to $5.7 million in outside spending by groups backing liberals....'

 

[badger2]

#4's article mentions Soros, so automatically linking the seven states Soros has targeted for "journalism," and this excerpt from #4's article links to our examination of kosher, halal and sex for the Pulse shooter in the Religion and Ethics forum:

'...."This seems to be more a matter of motivation to process information (or news) in a critical, reflective thinking style than the ability to do so"....'

'Yet Metro Pulse, Knoxville's longtime alt-weekly, was still running a slight profit in 2014 when the Scripps Company shut it down. So editor Coury Turczyn and a few other staffers started their own paper. But in the six months it took to get the Knoxville Mercury off the ground, the market had changed. "We lost a lot more small-business advertisers than we expected," Turczyn says. Facebook had captured them." '
(Isthmus 22-28 Feb 2018 "Under the Thumb: News Outlets Have Desperately Chased Facebook Clicks, Now the Social Media Giant Threatens to Destroy Them.")

 

[Dragonlady]

This is really interesting and something that needed to be done. Much of the crap these idiots spew plays both sides of highly divisive issues such as gun control following the school shooting. The clear intent is to sow discord with regards to issues that are already highly divisive in this country.

Also interesting are the top domains listed: Hannity, PJ Media, TruePundit, RT, ZeroHedge - etc etc etc. IOW, some of of the favorite fake news go-to's for our RW pals.

Something to keep an eye on. Don't get played Trumplings.

Hamilton 68: Tracking Putin's Propaganda Push... To America

This was spearheaded by one of the most brilliant minds on the topic, former FBI special agent Clint Watts. Some background:

A new website named after a Founding Father is tracking Russian propaganda in real time

That's fine, but if you are looking for external influence in your election, twitter is far from the leader. Why not start with Foundations and foreign money? We even had foreign leaders weighing in on Trump. It's disgusting how much effort the globalist put into destroying America.

Russian bots are a far weaker threat to America than say, China expanding their military, building land on sea and taking thousands of factories that were once American.

The Russians have declared a cyber war on the US electoral system. It is the greatest threat the US faces. Much greater than any external military threat.

 

[badger2]

#7 takes the bait. We will be explaining the apparatus of capture that dupes the prisoners on the food coercion thread. The Screenal space pimp meets the 2nd Ammendment.

Under the Thumb
isthmus.com/news/cover-story/news-outlets-have--chased-facebook-clicks-the-social-media-giant-threatens-to-destroy-them/

 

[badger2]

isthmus.com/news/cover-story/news-outlets-have--chased-facebook-clicks-now-the-social-media-giant-threatens-to-destroy-them/

 

[JakeStarkey]

Links do not work.

 

[badger2]

That's right, Dipshit #10, USMB software fails. When in doubt, just keep using your fingers.

 

[JakeStarkey]

I plugged in your url and it failed.

Page Not Found

 

[badger2]

Dumb xxxx, arrogant xxxx, others are already reading the Isthmus article.

 

[Witchit]

Yeah, by doing a cut-and-paste.

Under the thumb

 

[Dragonlady]

Dumb xxxx arrogant xxxx, others are already reading the Isthmus article.

You’re the dumb, arrogant ass who can’t post a proper link.

 

[Tehon]

This is really interesting and something that needed to be done. Much of the crap these idiots spew plays both sides of highly divisive issues such as gun control following the school shooting. The clear intent is to sow discord with regards to issues that are already highly divisive in this country.

Also interesting are the top domains listed: Hannity, PJ Media, TruePundit, RT, ZeroHedge - etc etc etc. IOW, some of of the favorite fake news go-to's for our RW pals.

Something to keep an eye on. Don't get played Trumplings.

Hamilton 68: Tracking Putin's Propaganda Push... To America

This was spearheaded by one of the most brilliant minds on the topic, former FBI special agent Clint Watts. Some background:

A new website named after a Founding Father is tracking Russian propaganda in real time

I can't help but notice the article didn't highlight the participation in the project of your old neocon friends Michael Chertoff and William Kristol. The same as were participants in the Project for the New American Century.

Awesome. Hey, maybe they can create a color coded system so you will know when the Russian influence is elevated and when it is safe for you to peruse the internet. Maybe something like this.

Fucking bed wetters.