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Report: Russian propaganda efforts propelled fake election news
Report: Russian propaganda efforts propelled fake election news
A sophisticated Russian propaganda effort helped fuel the spread of fake news during the election cycle, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
Two groups of independent researchers found that Russia employed thousands of botnets, human internet “trolls” and networks of Web sites and social media accounts to inject false content into online political talk and amplify posts from right-wing sites.
“They want to essentially erode faith in the U.S. government or U.S. government interests,” said Clint Watts, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute who co-authored a report about Russian propaganda. “This was their standard mode during the Cold War. The problem is that this was hard to do before social media.”
A similar report from PropOrNot, provided to the Post, identifies more than 200 websites that routinely pushed Russian propaganda to at least 15 million Americans, and found that false stories pushed on Facebook were viewed more than 213 million times.
Some stories originated from RT and Sputnik, state-funded Russian information services that are more akin to traditional news sites but sometimes include false or misleading articles.
The coverage was overwhelmingly favorable to Donald Trump, and some of the most notable examples of fake news garnering major traffic online centered on Hillary Clinton’s health, protesters that were allegedly paid to interrupt Trump events, and fears about vote tampering.
“The way that this propaganda apparatus supported Trump was equivalent to some massive amount of a media buy,” said the executive director of PropOrNot, who spoke on the condition of anonymity with the Post. “It was like Russia was running a super PAC for Trump’s campaign.”
Russia is also believed to be behind widespread hacks of Democratic organizations and individuals, including the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, whose emails were published by WikiLeaks.
In the wake of the election, fake news and its spread on social media has come into the spotlight. President Obama denounced the attention garnered by false information last week, saying: “If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not … if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.”
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Report: Russian propaganda efforts propelled fake election news
Must have wanted Trump in pretty bad !
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Re: Report: Russian propaganda efforts propelled fake election news
Russian propaganda efforts propelled:
Jobs leaving the rust belt.
Hillary setting up a secret/personal e-mail server in her home while Secretary of State.
Hillary placing Top Secret National Defense material on her secret server.
Sending and receiving Top Secret material on a non secure server.
Failed to return all work related e-mail and then stating that she did.
When questioned about the server she lied for a year and a half about what she did.
But the big one is when the Russians set-up the Clinton Foundation. A giant money laundering scheme. Millions of foreign dollar came into the foundation while Hillary was Secretary of State.
And lets not forget about the $250,000 Wall Speeches that the Russians got her to give.
And to top this all of this was the FBI conducting a active criminal investigation of the Democratic nominee for President. Guess Russia was working with director Comey!
If you want fake/partisan/biased news stories just go look at the New York Times!
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Common Sense wrote:
Russian propaganda efforts propelled:
Jobs leaving the rust belt.
Hillary setting up a secret/personal e-mail server in her home while Secretary of State.
Hillary placing Top Secret National Defense material on her secret server.
Sending and receiving Top Secret material on a non secure server.
Failed to return all work related e-mail and then stating that she did.
When questioned about the server she lied for a year and a half about what she did.
But the big one is when the Russians set-up the Clinton Foundation. A giant money laundering scheme. Millions of foreign dollar came into the foundation while Hillary was Secretary of State.
And lets not forget about the $250,000 Wall Speeches that the Russians got her to give.
And to top this all of this was the FBI conducting a active criminal investigation of the Democratic nominee for President. Guess Russia was working with director Comey!
If you want fake/partisan/biased news stories just go look at the New York Times!
A total non sequitur.
Like a dog with a bone.
Common, please set aside your hatred of the Clintons, and the NYT, for just a moment.
They have nothing to do with this story.
Please refrain from hyperbole. No one suggested that the FBI Director works for the Russians.
All of this, um, stuff above may be emotionally satisfying to you, but it is just a waste of our time.
Try to focus on the actual thread. Don't worry, we at the exchange are not trying to overturn the results of the election.
You can relax.
Please. This could be important.
An actual conversation about the topic could be informative, and interesting.
BTW, what informs your opinion?
Russian efforts at fake election news are a rather esoteric thing. I doubt that any of us has much expertise on the subject.
So, what data did you see that allowed you to so confidently dismiss the report, and attempt to change the subject of the thread?
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Russia and their trojan horse ??
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Re: Report: Russian propaganda efforts propelled fake election news
What's even more troubling should be the idea that foreign governments have shown they have the ability to mess with our elections while spreading 'fake news'.
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Would it not be a "hoot" if the person that got the "rigged" election was Hillary ??
I am not expecting much out of this recount issue that was started by Stein (and now joined by Clinton), BUT you never know. This election certainly has had its share of outside influence which is troublesome no matter which candidate they were trying to influence the election for.
I have found in totally interesting that the hacking and outside influence seemed just aimed at one group.
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