Bi-Partisan Senate report calls for sweeping effort to stop Russian trolls on social media platforms.

[BudmanTX]

Looks like the DOJ dropped the hammer on RT......

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2559

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1831394853852487741

 

[hanimmal]

Looks like the DOJ dropped the hammer on RT......

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2559

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1831394853852487741

Are we finally as a nation done with this shitty attack on our citizens?!

Biden let the hate mongering dictators punch themselves out and now that Biden sidestepped all that incoming they are dropping the hammer on the foreign nations that were stupid enough to think they got away with them attacking us all.


I do feel bad for all the people who are in the warpath of these assholes that are kicking and screaming like the spoiled brats they are though.

 

[BudmanTX]

Are we finally as a nation done with this shitty attack on our citizens?!

Looks like we are and it's a hell of a start. The press release is a good read btw

also Garland is right now doing a press thing on MSNBC about election workers and such, it might be on you YT feed in a minute or so.......

I'm sitting here quietly on X right now and i saw a trend (#thetrumps) it went from 27k of people talking about it to 1.4mil talking about it<-----bot farm

 

[BudmanTX]

Doj's evidence of Russia's uckery........

https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/exhibits_9a_and_9b.pdf

first 5 pages are pretty right on the money of what they are doing........

 

[Bagginski]

Everyone ought to read that

 

[hanimmal]

Doj's evidence of Russia's uckery........

https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/exhibits_9a_and_9b.pdf

first 5 pages are pretty right on the money of what they are doing........

Page 2 in this troll handout really knocks it out of the park. I bet a simple search on major propagandists YouTube pages would line up in interesting ways.



It is sad though. When you hear the MAGA cultists saying the things they actually believe (not when they are just tired and trying to own a lib, but the shit they are actually scared of), it is because it is exploiting a very real problem that we have likely left lingering for far too long and need people to try to understand what one another are even talking about.

Everyone ought to read that

Yes, yes they should.

 

[BudmanTX]

Page 2 in this troll handout really knocks it out of the park. I bet a simple search on major propagandists YouTube pages would line up in interesting ways.
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It is sad though. When you hear the MAGA cultists saying the things they actually believe (not when they are just tired and trying to own a lib, but the shit they are actually scared of), it is because it is exploiting a very real problem that we have likely left lingering for far too long and need people to try to understand what one another are even talking about.



Yes, yes they should.

it works like a play by play book, imo........

and on top of that guess what?

Two RT Employees Indicted for Covertly Funding and Directing U.S. Company that Published Thousands of Videos in Furtherance of Russian Interests

An indictment charging Russian nationals Kostiantyn Kalashnikov, 31, also known as Kostya, and Elena Afanasyeva, 27, also known as Lena, with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and conspiracy to commit money laundering was unsealed today in the Southern District of...

www.justice.gov

and there goes 2 employees, under FARA and money laundering......now i'm scratching my head "what is US company 1" that might be interesting....

 

[BudmanTX]

with a little digging i think found who was Company 1 is..........

TENET MEDIA | Fearless Voices Live Here

Tenet Media is a network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues. Our goal is to support creators who question institutions that believe themselves to be above questioning. In our view, all issues du jour merit rigorous and honest discussion if one wants to...

www.tenetmedia.com

even they're web pages smells........only 1 page and that's it

from reports they have a YT channel......

 

[hanimmal]

it works like a play by play book, imo........

and on top of that guess what?

Two RT Employees Indicted for Covertly Funding and Directing U.S. Company that Published Thousands of Videos in Furtherance of Russian Interests

An indictment charging Russian nationals Kostiantyn Kalashnikov, 31, also known as Kostya, and Elena Afanasyeva, 27, also known as Lena, with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and conspiracy to commit money laundering was unsealed today in the Southern District of...

www.justice.gov

and there goes 2 employees, under FARA and money laundering......now i'm scratching my head "what is US company 1" that might be interesting....

If those two represent one 'cell', the next question is how many cells are there still out there.


Might be a fun few weeks.

 

[hanimmal]

with a little digging i think found who was Company 1 is..........

TENET MEDIA | Fearless Voices Live Here

Tenet Media is a network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues. Our goal is to support creators who question institutions that believe themselves to be above questioning. In our view, all issues du jour merit rigorous and honest discussion if one wants to...

www.tenetmedia.com

even they're web pages smells........only 1 page and that's it

from reports they have a YT channel......

https://www.rawstory.com/russia-us-election-2024-1234/

Two RussiaToday employees were indicted this week by the Justice Department which claimed they deployed nearly $10 million to circulate RT-curated content which garnered millions of views through an online content creation company.

Commentators claimed the company the DOJ points to, but which it doesn't name, is a pro-Republican group where hosts openly promote Donald Trump.

"That company — TENET Media, which is not mentioned by name in the indictment — includes a constellation of well-known right-wing influencers, including Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson, among others," The Independent wrote.

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National security expert Marcy Wheeler remarked on X that among the identifying details leading many to name TENENT is the fact that both Johnston and Pool have the same number of YouTube subscribers as listed in a paragraph in the indictment.

Alan Feuer, a New York Times legal reporter, pointed out that the description of the "unnamed" company in the indictment matches verbatim the right-wing media company.

Many other news outlets and experts also named the company.

Pool interviewed Trump for his podcast where they spoke about, among other topics, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how it could "lead to World War III."

Trump also pledged that he would give "serious consideration" to pardoning Julian Assange. Both of those are "favorite themes of Russian propaganda efforts," said one X account confirmed by legal analysts as operated by a former CIA lawyer.

The Independent wrote, "RT employees helped publish nearly 2,000 English-language videos on TikTok, Instagram, X and YouTube, where they have racked up 16 million views, according to prosecutors."

The media company claimed it was getting the cash from a "private investor," who was actually a "fictitious persona," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in the indictment.

It isn't thought the company's owners or employees knew Russia was funding the efforts.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco commented last month that Russian President Vladimir Putin and “his proxies” are relying on “increasingly sophisticated” efforts to interfere with the 2024 U.S. elections. She said d that the efforts are “targeting specific voter demographics and swing-state voters in an effort to manipulate presidential and congressional election outcome.”

“They’re intent on co-opting unwitting Americans on social media to push narratives advancing Russian interests,” she also said.

See the full report from The Independent.

 

[hanimmal]

 

[Roy O'Bannon]

Should leave the trolls alone, just let them scream uselessly into the wind. I think that would be the funniest way to handle them, let them think they are doing work.

 

[hanimmal]

Should leave the trolls alone, just let them scream uselessly into the wind. I think that would be the funniest way to handle them, let them think they are doing work.

It's all fun and games until they have a detailed map (geographical and psychological) of all of us and can use it to pinpoint our crazies and maintain frequent contact them radicalizing them from afar.

Now if there was some sort of internet a.i. mousetrap that makes them think they are trolling our citizens but really they are just trolling ai programs you could be onto something.

 

[hanimmal]

Couple talking heads' take on the attack on our democracy by Putin and his militarized trolls (foreign and domestic).

Sticking this here, it popped up and was interesting but I havnt had time to get too far into it yet.

 

[hanimmal]

https://www.rawstory.com/somethings-in-play-here-says-ex-trump-natsec-official-on-doj-russian-disinfo-indictment/

Former Trump DHS cybersecurity director Chris Krebs says Wednesday's massive bombshell DOJ indictment alleging Kremlin funds have been supporting a right-wing pro-MAGA U.S. media outlet to influence the 2024 election is merely the first part of what he expects to be an even larger scandal.

"I've been talking about this for years. It's disinformation, it's propaganda, and it's all about power and influence and money. Take your pick of those three. Something's in play here. And if the Russians are going to drop 10 million into a single outlet for a few million dollars or a few million views, I've got to expect they've got 100 million plus more that is distributed somewhere else. So this is the first shoe to drop," said Krebs on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Thursday (video below).

Calling the indictment itself "a fascinating read," Krebs compared it to spy novels.

"I mean, it is this almost Ludlum-like, Tom Clancy-like story of foreign security services and foreign interests manipulating the U.S. political discourse."

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Krebs explained that instead of Russia just relying on social media, what "we've seen is this evolution now where they diversified their platforms, and now they're using podcasters, they're using YouTube, they're using fake news sites. Remember, there is a second part of this that talks about Doppelganger, which is a disinfo-for-hire organization that has these pink-slime fake websites that look a lot like Washington Post, CNN and others, and they boost fake news, AI generated content, videos, images. It is a very, very complex scheme that DOJ the intelligence community are working hard to unravel."

"I was over the moon with these documents yesterday that we can expose them and start tearing down this infrastructure," Krebs rejoiced.

"So we know that they are fully engaged and attempting to manipulate U.S. political discourse. They're going after influential members of the elite. And you know, look, whether you want to call the podcasters or YouTubers, 'the elite,' it doesn't matter they have reach. They have the ability to reach out and touch minds."

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Krebs suggested none of this is by accident.

"There are very complex strategies behind the scenes. We are seeing the tip of the iceberg, and there will be more," Krebs warned.

Donald Trump fired Chris Krebs as the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after he produced a report stating the 2020 election was the most secure in the nation's history, contrary to Trump's false "Big Lie" allegations of election fraud and election rigging.

Watch the video below or at this link.

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[BudmanTX]

DOJ press release about Dimitri Simes and i assuming his wife too.....

TV Presenter Who Worked for Channel One Russia Charged with Violating U.S. Sanctions Imposed on Russia

The Department of Justice today unsealed two indictments charging Dimitri Simes, 76, and Anastasia Simes, 55, both of Huntly, Virginia, and Russia with two separate schemes to violate U.S. sanctions.

www.justice.gov

and they're dropping like flies......

Tried to find one on Scott Ritter, he also got raided by the FBI and such, nothing comes up on the .gov website.....hmmmm

 

[Bagginski]

DOJ press release about Dimitri Simes and i assuming his wife too.....

and they're dropping like flies......

Tried to find one on Scott Ritter, he also got raided by the FBI and such, nothing comes up on the .gov website.....hmmmm

Too much on him to dig thru quickly…

 

[BudmanTX]

Too much on him to dig thru quickly…

i know, it's like shaking a tree and all the squirrels fall out at once....

 

[hanimmal]

Too much on him to dig thru quickly…

And to make it worse for the propaganda war it looks like Hunterghazi is coming to a end and he is just going to suck it up and take the punishment. And Trump's puppet prosecutor is pissing and moaning (based on MSNBC), because my bullshit guess he was supposed to squeeze at least 3 more episodes out of it for Dear Leader.

 

[BudmanTX]

Now your saving your own azz cause you got busted and your gonna rat everyone else out.........got it..



and here is your russian victim card



as you can see it's been declined, you know dam well what you were doing and your other pod casters......