New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation’s scale and sweep

[JimH52]

Russia supporter Obama over Romney and...the left said nothing. Nothing to see move along.

Link or admit you lie....when did the Russian pepper social media with pro-Obama fake news, like they did with trump?

Obama colluded with Russia, here caught him in the act on a hot mic.

Amazing! He won with NO HELP from Putin.....Go Figure.....

 

[Lesh]

And they're all over social media and the internet...even here but we're not supposed to mention it

 

[keepitreal]

This report shows how Trump was supported by the Russians.

By Craig Timberg and Tony Romm
December 16 at 4:29 PM

A report prepared for the Senate that provides the most sweeping analysis yet of Russia’s disinformation campaign around the 2016 election found the operation used every major social media platform to deliver words, images and videos tailored to voters’ interests to help elect President Trump — and worked even harder to support him while in office.

The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to study the millions of posts provided by major technology firms to the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), its chairman, and Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), its ranking Democrat. The bipartisan panel hasn’t said whether it endorses the findings. It plans to release it publicly along with another study later this week.

The research — by Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project and Graphika, a network analysis firm — offers new details of how Russians working at the Internet Research Agency, which U.S. officials have charged with criminal offenses for interfering in the 2016 campaign, sliced Americans into key interest groups for targeted messaging. These efforts shifted over time, peaking at key political moments, such as presidential debates or party conventions, the report found.

The data sets used by the researchers were provided by Facebook, Twitter and Google and covered several years up to mid-2017, when the social media companies cracked down on the known Russian accounts. The report, which also analyzed data separately provided to House Intelligence Committee members, contains no information on more recent political moments, such as November’s midterm elections.

“What is clear is that all of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the Republican Party — and specifically Donald Trump,” the report says. “Trump is mentioned most in campaigns targeting conservatives and right-wing voters, where the messaging encouraged these groups to support his campaign. The main groups that could challenge Trump were then provided messaging that sought to confuse, distract and ultimately discourage members from voting.”

New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation’s scale and sweep

Did they spend more money,
trying to influence voters, than Hillary?

Over a 12 day period in June,
Hillary spent $6 million dollars on ads, $500,000 a day

Hillary Clinton Spending $500,000 Per Day On Ads

The Russian government helped elect your president. You have no problem with that?

The Russian government helped elect your president. You have no problem with that?

I have a problem with you believing that

Gee, you are a denier, like your Great Leader....no one is shocked...

Gee, you are a denier, like your Great Leader....no one is shocked..

Study: Hillary Clinton's TV ads
were almost entirely policy free

Hillary Clinton’s campaign ran TV ads that had less to do with policy than any other presidential candidate in the past four presidential races, according to a new studypublished on Monday by the Wesleyan Media Project.

Clinton’s team spent a whopping $1 billion on the election in all — about twice what Donald Trump’s campaign spent. Clinton spent $72 million on television ads in the final weeks alone.

But only 25 percent of advertising supporting her campaign went after Trump on policy grounds, the researchers found. By comparison, every other presidential candidate going back to at least 2000 devoted more than 40 percent of his or her advertising to policy-based attacks. None spent nearly as much time going after an opponent’s personality as Clinton’s ads did.

So, this is how Russia helped get Trump elected...

The operation used every major social media platform to deliver words, images and videos tailored to voters’ interests to help elect President Trump — and worked even harder to support him while in office.

sliced Americans into key interest groups for targeted messaging. These efforts shifted over time, peaking at key political moments, such as presidential debates or party conventions, the report found.

Trump is mentioned most in campaigns targeting conservatives and right-wing voters, where the messaging encouraged these groups to support his campaign. The main groups that could challenge Trump were then provided messaging that sought to confuse, distract and ultimately discourage members from voting.”

So, basicly, ignorant, uninformed voters,
spend way too much time online

Poor Hillary

 

[Snouter]

The butthurt TDS keep looking to new reports from the Deep State to support Crooked Hillary and John McCain's fabricated hoax about Russia. The only evidence so far is someone in Russia bought $4,700 in Crazy Bernie ads.

 

[xyz]

This report shows how Trump was supported by the Russians.

By Craig Timberg and Tony Romm
December 16 at 4:29 PM

A report prepared for the Senate that provides the most sweeping analysis yet of Russia’s disinformation campaign around the 2016 election found the operation used every major social media platform to deliver words, images and videos tailored to voters’ interests to help elect President Trump — and worked even harder to support him while in office.

The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to study the millions of posts provided by major technology firms to the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), its chairman, and Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), its ranking Democrat. The bipartisan panel hasn’t said whether it endorses the findings. It plans to release it publicly along with another study later this week.

The research — by Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project and Graphika, a network analysis firm — offers new details of how Russians working at the Internet Research Agency, which U.S. officials have charged with criminal offenses for interfering in the 2016 campaign, sliced Americans into key interest groups for targeted messaging. These efforts shifted over time, peaking at key political moments, such as presidential debates or party conventions, the report found.

The data sets used by the researchers were provided by Facebook, Twitter and Google and covered several years up to mid-2017, when the social media companies cracked down on the known Russian accounts. The report, which also analyzed data separately provided to House Intelligence Committee members, contains no information on more recent political moments, such as November’s midterm elections.

“What is clear is that all of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the Republican Party — and specifically Donald Trump,” the report says. “Trump is mentioned most in campaigns targeting conservatives and right-wing voters, where the messaging encouraged these groups to support his campaign. The main groups that could challenge Trump were then provided messaging that sought to confuse, distract and ultimately discourage members from voting.”

New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation’s scale and sweep

Trump works for Russia. And by extension, the Republican Party works for Russia.

We see it every day.

Yes, but it's not so simple because some Republicans were on the Russian train before Trump was seriously running for office.