The Russian Facebook and Twitter Troll accounts and posts

[Marion Morrison]

Here they are!

The Facebook ones:

These Are the Ads Russia Bought on Facebook in 2016

The Twitter ones:

This space is a repository for content from the Russian Twitter account ‘Blacks 4 Blacks’.



IMO, it appears the goal was to play both ends against the middle.

Maybe someone else can share a different perspective.

 

[frigidweirdo]

What they show is that all these memes, this adverts, they come from somewhere, or more specifically from someone who wants to get inside the brains of people.

 

[midcan5]

The Satan v Jesus was interesting as Hillary was the devil for many (so called religious) conservatives. What I find interesting is people can be so easily swayed. Bill Clinton was hated from the moment he won the presidency, it wasn't supposed to happen. Susan Bordo does a comparison or outline of Hillary's accomplishments in her book 'Destruction', but you never heard of them online or in media as Donnie managed through twitter and other nonsense to control the message. And media being mostly nonsense followed along. But republican values are those of the 'Happy Hooker', they got what they wanted and the rich, their benefactors, will benefit.

Opinion | The Happy Hooker Conservatives

"If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things." Adolf Hitler

"(A) nation in which 87 percent of eighteen - to twenty-four year olds (according to a 2002 National Geographic Society/Roper Poll survey) cannot locate Iran or Iraq on a world map and 11 percent cannot locate the United States (!) is not merely “intellectually sluggish.” It would be more accurate to call it moronic, capable of being fooled into believing anything …” Morris Berman DARK AGES AMERICA -- Blog for Morris Berman

The Destruction of Hillary Clinton by Susan Bordo

Media under Trumpism

"Today Christians... stand at the head of Germany... We want to fill our culture again with the Christian Spirit." Adolf Hitler

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Has any USMB Progressive gone on record with their "how Putin flipped their vote" tale?

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

What will be hilarious is when the left discovers the reality of life that those spreading false information do not care about the political party that can win because of the bogus news but how much money they make off the nonsense while making many here in America insane over the issue...

 

[Marion Morrison]

What they show is that all these memes, this adverts, they come from somewhere, or more specifically from someone who wants to get inside the brains of people.

Sort of like a trial run to see how gullible people are?

 

[Thunderbird]

The Russia-elected-Trump conspiracy theory fails again.

The Democratic Line on Facebook and Russia is Crazy

Does anyone still trust the corporate media?

 

[frigidweirdo]

Has any USMB Progressive gone on record with their "how Putin flipped their vote" tale?

Do you think that Russians should be trying to persuade Americans on which way to vote?

 

[frigidweirdo]

The Russia-elected-Trump conspiracy theory fails again.

The Democratic Line on Facebook and Russia is Crazy

Does anyone still trust the corporate media?

Funny you say "corporate media", the non-corporate media has shown itself to be less honest than the corporate media.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Here they are!

The Facebook ones:

These Are the Ads Russia Bought on Facebook in 2016

The Twitter ones:

This space is a repository for content from the Russian Twitter account ‘Blacks 4 Blacks’.



IMO, it appears the goal was to play both ends against the middle.

Maybe someone else can share a different perspective.

they got their man in the white house
A particularly disgusting example of the russian 2016 election psyops:
Here Are Some Of The Ads Russia Paid To Promote On Facebook | HuffPost

Members of the House and Senate released redacted versions Wednesday of just over a dozen of the ads (scroll down to see them) during congressional testimony from senior staff at Facebook, Twitter and Google concerning Russian meddling in the election through social platforms.

In an earlier analysis of its content, Facebook said the ads focused on polarizing issues, such as immigration, race relations and gay rights, in a clear attempt to foment division.

In one particularly troubling example highlighted by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C), Russians masqueraded on Facebook as both a pro-Islam “United Muslims of America” group and an anti-Islam “Heart of Texas” group, then scheduled opposing rallies on the same day in the same area of Houston.

Followers of both Facebook groups dutifully attended, then clashed with the counter-rally across the street:

...

“What neither side could have known was that Russian trolls were encouraging both sides to battle in the streets and create division between real Americans,” Burr said.

“Ironically, one person who attended stated, ‘The Heart of Texas promoted this event, but we didn’t see one of them,’” Burr added. “We now know why. It’s hard to attend an event in Houston, Texas, when you’re trolling from a site in St. Petersburg, Russia.”

 

[frigidweirdo]

The Russia-elected-Trump conspiracy theory fails again.

The Democratic Line on Facebook and Russia is Crazy

Does anyone still trust the corporate media?

The thing with this article is that it's trying to be biased, trying to get you to think one way.

"The storyline they are hyping is that Russia-connected purchases of approximately $150,000 dollars worth of Facebook advertising – hyping stories and pages to users – over a period from June of 2015 to May of 2017 represents a dangerous threat to our democracy, and a representation of an orchestrated campaign of targeted attacks."

No, $150,000 is not much in comparison with the amount of money the Koch brothers, Soros and a few other billionaires are throwing into the whole thing. The first danger to democracy comes from the Koch brothers and others going to the Supreme Court and getting their own way, being allowed to spend whatever they like on campaigning. That's a massive problem because Americans are acting like zombies controlled by the rich.

The amount of money isn't dangerous, it's the fact that foreign governments, especially one of the US's greatest enemies of the 20th century, is actually meddling in US affairs. Yes, the US meddles in Russian affairs, however the US should not be allowing it to happen as the Russians aren't allowing it to happen in Russia.

Even worse would be a presidential candidate going to foreign countries and getting help. It's illegal to get funding from foreigners. There's a reason for this. If Trump has been found getting financial help from foreigners then he broke election law.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Here they are!

The Facebook ones:

These Are the Ads Russia Bought on Facebook in 2016

The Twitter ones:

This space is a repository for content from the Russian Twitter account ‘Blacks 4 Blacks’.



IMO, it appears the goal was to play both ends against the middle.

Maybe someone else can share a different perspective.

they got their man in the white house
A particularly disgusting example of the russian 2016 election psyops:
Here Are Some Of The Ads Russia Paid To Promote On Facebook | HuffPost

Members of the House and Senate released redacted versions Wednesday of just over a dozen of the ads (scroll down to see them) during congressional testimony from senior staff at Facebook, Twitter and Google concerning Russian meddling in the election through social platforms.

In an earlier analysis of its content, Facebook said the ads focused on polarizing issues, such as immigration, race relations and gay rights, in a clear attempt to foment division.

In one particularly troubling example highlighted by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C), Russians masqueraded on Facebook as both a pro-Islam “United Muslims of America” group and an anti-Islam “Heart of Texas” group, then scheduled opposing rallies on the same day in the same area of Houston.

Followers of both Facebook groups dutifully attended, then clashed with the counter-rally across the street:

...

“What neither side could have known was that Russian trolls were encouraging both sides to battle in the streets and create division between real Americans,” Burr said.

“Ironically, one person who attended stated, ‘The Heart of Texas promoted this event, but we didn’t see one of them,’” Burr added. “We now know why. It’s hard to attend an event in Houston, Texas, when you’re trolling from a site in St. Petersburg, Russia.”

So then why were they sponsoring "resist" movements and BLM as well?

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

So then why were they sponsoring "resist" movements and BLM as well?

that was after the election and a continuation of their campaign to hurt America by putting an Orange Moron in the White House to stoke cultural and ethnic divisions

 

[Geaux4it]

Has any USMB Progressive gone on record with their "how Putin flipped their vote" tale?

Do you think that Russians should be trying to persuade Americans on which way to vote?

And how do you propose we stop it?

-Geaux

 

[Geaux4it]

So then why were they sponsoring "resist" movements and BLM as well?

that was after the election and a continuation of their campaign to hurt America by putting an Orange Moron in the White House to stoke cultural and ethnic divisions

If you can put the blunt down for just a minute, you should read this

No matter who wins, we lose.

-Geaux

 

[peach174]

Has any USMB Progressive gone on record with their "how Putin flipped their vote" tale?

Do you think that Russians should be trying to persuade Americans on which way to vote?

It is the people that run for President who Americans decide to vote for, outside persuasion does not change Americans vote.
If you think that, then they helped get Obama and Bush elected.
Facebook has about one billion using it worldwide. There are 7.5 billion in the world.
Americans vote on issues not political persuasion by others.
Millennial ages 15 to 34 use it the most. Most of them don't vote.
There are over 76 million baby boomers who don't use a lot of social media.
Do the math people.
Oh yeah, I forgot math is now racist.
Has that stupid thought influenced you?
Americans have more people that agree on issues, who are moderate, not the far left or far right.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Has any USMB Progressive gone on record with their "how Putin flipped their vote" tale?

Do you think that Russians should be trying to persuade Americans on which way to vote?

And how do you propose we stop it?

-Geaux

Firstly make it clear to presidential candidates that if they're caught having anything to do with this, they'll not be able to run or get impeached if they've already entered office.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Has any USMB Progressive gone on record with their "how Putin flipped their vote" tale?

Do you think that Russians should be trying to persuade Americans on which way to vote?

It is the people that run for President who Americans decide to vote for, outside persuasion does not change Americans vote.
If you think that, then they helped get Obama and Bush elected.
Facebook has about one billion using it worldwide. There are 7.5 billion in the world.
Americans vote on issues not political persuasion by others.
Millennial ages 15 to 34 use it the most. Most of them don't vote.
There are over 76 million baby boomers who don't use a lot of social media.
Do the math people.
Oh yeah, I forgot math is now racist.
Has that stupid thought influenced you?
Americans have more people that agree on issues, who are moderate, not the far left or far right.

Doesn't it? Are you such an expert on this and have the evidence to show this is the case?

Americans don't vote on issues, they vote on how they're told to vote, how they're manipulated to vote.

Come on.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Has any USMB Progressive gone on record with their "how Putin flipped their vote" tale?

Do you think that Russians should be trying to persuade Americans on which way to vote?

It is the people that run for President who Americans decide to vote for, outside persuasion does not change Americans vote.
If you think that, then they helped get Obama and Bush elected.
Facebook has about one billion using it worldwide. There are 7.5 billion in the world.
Americans vote on issues not political persuasion by others.
Millennial ages 15 to 34 use it the most. Most of them don't vote.
There are over 76 million baby boomers who don't use a lot of social media.
Do the math people.
Oh yeah, I forgot math is now racist.
Has that stupid thought influenced you?
Americans have more people that agree on issues, who are moderate, not the far left or far right.

Doesn't it? Are you such an expert on this and have the evidence to show this is the case?

Americans don't vote on issues, they vote on how they're told to vote, how they're manipulated to vote.

Come on.

Then how did Trump win with the way the media was manipulating/telling the public to vote for Hillary?

 

[Geaux4it]

Has any USMB Progressive gone on record with their "how Putin flipped their vote" tale?

Do you think that Russians should be trying to persuade Americans on which way to vote?

And how do you propose we stop it?

-Geaux

Firstly make it clear to presidential candidates that if they're caught having anything to do with this, they'll not be able to run or get impeached if they've already entered office.

But that doesn't fix the 'so called' problem. The influence for those naive enough to be swayed remains

-Geaux