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

hanimmal

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BudmanTX said:
interesting little snippet found in the DOJ report......

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I think it is time we right one of the wrongs from the post Civil War period that they had seemed to have learned in Germany after WW2.



People should not be able to pretend like they are 'in the right' if they have been spouting the hate mongering propaganda, and play this shit down.
 
Bagginski

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Whistler must be raking in *big* bucks…I’ve never caught him in an error, & if he has an agenda, few hints show themselves as to what it might be outside of his choice of topics (could just be a genuinely smart guy monetizing himself brilliantly)

So yeah, de-xification…we did a poor job of clearing committed slavers from the populace after the slaver rebellion was crushed, “reconstruction” failed due to Lincoln’s timidity & active sabotage federally & locally, grievances were sharpened & pounded home as Jim Crow was carved from the bones of open slavery, only to be kept alive 150 years later, franchise & electability virtually unimpaired

Still alive is the conceit that the hard core of white-sovereignty allegiance that runs from the slavers thru to MAGA represent a population that is somehow ‘virtuous’ - simple honest upright citizens whose patriotism is beyond question & whose honor is sacred. That they are the core of America, the backbone of the nation, the most patriotic of all patriots. Somehow, after Appomattox, all that stuff about slavery just got dropped - because we still had a servant problem, and those 750,000 dead & the devastated countryside & populace became honored dead in a notional conversation over the right of a state to secede.

I grew up under Jim Crow, when it was in full swing: it was *deliberate* and it was *popular*, it was enforced ad hoc by the citizenry at large - it wasn’t all cross-burnings & marches & police dogs, it was the 10,000 faces every day, wearing the same look of suspicion & disapproval …”we’re watching, and you won’t get away with ANYTHING”. Civil rights for the descendants of slaves has been fought bitterly, viciously, continuously, since the beginnings of the nation, and MAGA - and their dangerously goofy overlord - are currently the tip of that spear

“Forget Ft Sumter & Jan 6 - we’re *still* better Americans than y’all, so sit the fuck down”
 
hanimmal

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Bagginski said:
Whistler must be raking in *big* bucks…I’ve never caught him in an error, & if he has an agenda, few hints show themselves as to what it might be outside of his choice of topics (could just be a genuinely smart guy monetizing himself brilliantly)
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I am not sure who that is. I tried googling it and came across this dude:

Ill be interested in listening to his work ty.

Bagginski said:
So yeah, de-xification…we did a poor job of clearing committed slavers from the populace after the slaver rebellion was crushed,
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I was thinking more that we should have forced all the people in those areas of revolt to face the evils of slavery and not let them pretend like it wasn't them that was forcing people to have to cross streets and shit if they were walking there. All those people living where slavery was taking place (even in the north) and looked away should never have been given the option of thinking it was 'them' and not 'us kind of problem. Or that it was 'not that bad'.

The placing of pictures of the death camps for the people in those towns to read how it was their fault those people were murdered and making them bury the bodies is pretty stark.
Bagginski said:
“reconstruction” failed due to Lincoln’s timidity & active sabotage federally & locally, grievances were sharpened & pounded home as Jim Crow was carved from the bones of open slavery, only to be kept alive 150 years later, franchise & electability virtually unimpaired
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From what I was reading on it, in the years after Lincolns assassination there were thousands of black men elected into office and it wasn't until there was something hanky that the southern white aristocrats started to pull (with crap like second slates of their electors 'electing' them even though they lost).

https://www.rollitup.org/t/conservatives-programed-to-trigger-at-words-black-lives-matter-by-russian-trolls.1034523/post-17599426


Idk, pretty interesting that it was really actually successful at the first true push at the first multi-racial democratic nation, until it was ripped away when the wealthy were able to cause a deep recession (even though the freed black men were able to increase production during this period) and fear monger the voters into giving the power back to the racist agenda.



This paper I don't think covered it, but there was something too about a presidential election not having all the EC votes and they struck a deal to remove the federal troops protecting the non-white voters and that was really when our first attempt at multi-racial democracy died.

Bagginski said:
Still alive is the conceit that the hard core of white-sovereignty allegiance that runs from the slavers thru to MAGA represent a population that is somehow ‘virtuous’ - simple honest upright citizens whose patriotism is beyond question & whose honor is sacred. That they are the core of America, the backbone of the nation, the most patriotic of all patriots. Somehow, after Appomattox, all that stuff about slavery just got dropped - because we still had a servant problem, and those 750,000 dead & the devastated countryside & populace became honored dead in a notional conversation over the right of a state to secede.
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Yeah this is were I think they must have learned the lesson of this period when it came to 1945 treatment of the remaining German population.


Bagginski said:
I grew up under Jim Crow, when it was in full swing: it was *deliberate* and it was *popular*, it was enforced ad hoc by the citizenry at large - it wasn’t all cross-burnings & marches & police dogs, it was the 10,000 faces every day, wearing the same look of suspicion & disapproval …”we’re watching, and you won’t get away with ANYTHING”. Civil rights for the descendants of slaves has been fought bitterly, viciously, continuously, since the beginnings of the nation, and MAGA - and their dangerously goofy overlord - are currently the tip of that spear

“Forget Ft Sumter & Jan 6 - we’re *still* better Americans than y’all, so sit the fuck down”
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It really is amazing how far we have come in the last handful of decades, I am really hopeful this election finally nails shut the attempts to take us backwards in civil rights. Then we just have to shake the zealots trying to use our government to push their religious agendas and we can start to make a lot of progress.
 
BudmanTX

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nice little write ups...

cepa.org

Onward Putin Soldiers

The Kremlin’s mouthpieces once denied that they were the Russian regime’s playthings, this is no longer the case.
cepa.org cepa.org

cepa.org

Russian Election Saboteurs Gear Up for US Vote

The Kremlin plans to influence the US presidential election, but the authorities and voters are under-prepared.
cepa.org cepa.org

kinda wish the FEC had a little more teeth, maybe, just maybe this kind of stuff wouldn't happen
 
injinji

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Not sure if you guys caught this, as it was not in the main stream news, but Russia is not the only country to go after American pols on social media. The report stated that Israel was using bot account to go after anyone who said anything about the conditions in Gaza. We knew about their lobby pouring millions of bucks into the Bowman primary, but this was news to me.

Mark and Trey mentioned it in last week's Weekly Skews.
 
BudmanTX

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hanimmal said:
lol can you imagine how much fun it would be to see what shakes out in discovery if they don't settle.


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i know that would be fun to see.....let see it starts on Sept 30th. You think they'll settle out of court or go to jury with this? i'm guessing they'll settle like Murdoch and Fox imo. I think Smart also has a lawsuit against them too, i could be wrong...js
 
hanimmal

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BudmanTX said:
i know that would be fun to see.....let see it starts on Sept 30th. You think they'll settle out of court or go to jury with this? i'm guessing they'll settle like Murdoch and Fox imo. I think Smart also has a lawsuit against them too, i could be wrong...js
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I wish I knew anything about law that I didn't learn from a tv show or novel. But I would think they roll over and pay it out. But I am not sure if I am remembering right, I think that this was the company that said they would refuse settlements. If that is the case this could be very fun to watch.
 
hanimmal

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Is this sane-washing (at least the first 8 minutes of it)? I down know, it ended up being a really great in depth look at the campaign and he did mention that it is a possibility that they planned this as a propaganda hit talking about this community.

I did think there might be a problem with calling these people illegal immigrants if they have protected status. He might want to think on that.
 
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hanimmal

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https://apnews.com/article/russia-disinformation-foreign-influence-election-microsoft-7f802f9f4a0efe206fdaad29516b1f7f
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NEW YORK (AP) — The video was seen millions of times across social media but some viewers were suspicious: It featured a young Black woman who claimed Vice President Kamala Harris left her paralyzed in a hit-and-run accident in San Francisco 13 years ago.

In an emotional retelling from a wheelchair, the alleged victim said she “cannot remain silent anymore” and lamented that her childhood had “ended too soon.”

Immediately after the video was posted on Sept. 2, social media users pointed out reasons to be wary. The purported news channel it came from, San Francisco’s KBSF-TV, didn’t exist. A website for the channel set up just a week earlier contained plagiarized articles from real news outlets. The woman’s X-ray images shown in the video were taken from online medical journals. And the video and the text story on the website spelled the alleged victim’s name differently.

The caution was warranted, according to a new Microsoft threat intelligence report, which confirms the fabricated tale was disinformation from a Russia-linked troll farm.

The tech giant’s report released Tuesday details how Kremlin-aligned actors that at first struggled to adapt to President Joe Biden dropping out of the race have now gone full throttle in their covert influence efforts against Harris and Democrats.

It also explains how Russian intelligence actors are collaborating with pro-Russian cyber “hacktivists” to boost allegedly hacked-and-leaked materials, a strategy the company notes could be weaponized to undermine U.S. confidence in November’s election outcome.

The findings reveal how even through dramatic changes in the political landscape, groups linked to America’s foreign adversaries have redoubled their commitment to sway U.S. political opinion as the election nears, sometimes through deeply manipulative means. They also provide further insight into how Russia’s efforts to fight pro-Ukrainian policy in the U.S. are translating into escalating attacks on the Democratic presidential ticket.

The report builds on previous concerns the U.S. has had about Russian interference in the upcoming election. Earlier this month, the Biden administration seized Kremlin-run websites and charged two Russian state media employees in an alleged scheme to secretly fund and influence a network of right-wing influencers.

Russia-linked actors have spent several months seeking to manipulate American perspectives with covert postings, but until this point, their efforts saw little traction. Notably, some of the recent examples cited in the Microsoft report received significant social media engagement from unwitting Americans who shared the fake stories with outrage.

“As the election approaches, people get more heated,” Clint Watts, general manager of the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center said in an interview. “People tend to take in information from sources they don’t really know or wouldn’t even know to evaluate.”

Microsoft explained that the video blaming Harris for a fake hit-and-run incident came from a Russian-aligned influence network it calls Storm-1516, which other researchers refer to as CopyCop. The video, whose main character is played by an actor, is typical of the group’s efforts to react to current events with authentic-seeming “whistleblower” accounts that may seem like juicy unreported news to U.S. voters, the company said.

The report revealed a second video disseminated by the group, which purported to show two Black men beating up a bloodied white woman at a rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The video racked up thousands of shares on the social platform X and elicited comments like, “This is the kind of stuff to start civil wars.”

Microsoft’s report also pointed to another Russian influence actor it calls Storm-1679 that has recently pivoted from posting about the French election and the Paris Olympics to posting about Harris. Earlier this month, the group posted a manipulated video depicting a Times Square billboard that linked Harris to gender-affirming surgeries.

The content highlighted in the report doesn’t appear to use generative artificial intelligence tools. It instead uses actors and more old-school editing techniques.

Watts said Microsoft has been tracking the use of AI by nation states for more than a year and while foreign actors tried AI initially, many have gone back to basics as they’ve realized AI was “probably more time-consuming and not more effective.”

Asked about Russia’s motivation, Watts said the Russia-aligned groups Microsoft tracks may not necessarily support particular candidates, but they are motivated to undermine anyone who “is supporting Ukraine in their policy.”

Harris has vowed to continue supporting America’s ally Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion if elected president. Trump has demurred when asked about whether he wants Ukraine to win the war, saying in the recent presidential debate, “ I want the war to stop.”

At a forum in early September, Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to suggest jokingly that he would support Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming U.S. election. Intelligence officials have said Moscow prefers Trump.

The Harris campaign declined to comment. The Russian embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment.

Earlier this summer, Microsoft found that Iranian groups have also been laying the groundwork to stoke division in the election by creating fake news sites, impersonating activists and targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack.

U.S. intelligence officials are preparing criminal charges in connection with that attack, which targeted the Trump campaign, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.

Microsoft’s new report also touches on how a Chinese-linked influence actor has used short-form video to criticize Biden and Harris and to create anti-Trump content, suggesting it doesn’t appear interested in supporting a particular candidate.

Instead, the company said, the China-aligned group’s apparent goal is to “seed doubt and confusion among American voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election.”
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BudmanTX

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you know sometime i hate rabbit holes, but this one provided some interesting Russian Trollery....it all started here:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1836421690806669821

now the company he's talking about is the Social Design Agency, come to find out this is a troll farm aka bot farm and it is under sanction by the us and it seems the EU as well.....

US Treas Sanction:

The indictment:

This is the EU sanction and it gives a website:
www.opensanctions.org

Social Design Agency

www.opensanctions.org www.opensanctions.org

now just for the heck of it i decided to do a google search and this popped up, something about a list of docs that were leaked by said company, only problem is i can't find the leaked docs right now, i'll keep asking around......but don't count your chicken before they hatch ok.....

www.rferl.org

Leaked Records Detail Vast Russian Influence Campaign Targeting Ukraine, EU

A cache of leaked Russian records shines light on a multifaceted Russian disinformation campaign that sought to destabilize Ukraine and damage its support in the West, while also boosting far-right EU parties that would promote pro-Russian narratives.
www.rferl.org www.rferl.org

now while i was doing a google search i decided to go for the company itself......and this made of whats left of my hair stand up while the EU sanction does list a company in Russia:

https://sp-agency.ru/ <-----said bot farm aka troll farm

i found this of which i suspect might be one to, and remember i said "might"

https://socialdesignagency.com/ <----and it's based in Dallas, Tx of all places

ok that's enough of my rabbit hole for today, i'll keep trying to find those docs.....
 
hanimmal

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BudmanTX said:
you know sometime i hate rabbit holes, but this one provided some interesting Russian Trollery....it all started here:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1836421690806669821

now the company he's talking about is the Social Design Agency, come to find out this is a troll farm aka bot farm and it is under sanction by the us and it seems the EU as well.....

US Treas Sanction:

The indictment:

This is the EU sanction and it gives a website:
www.opensanctions.org

Social Design Agency

www.opensanctions.org www.opensanctions.org

now just for the heck of it i decided to do a google search and this popped up, something about a list of docs that were leaked by said company, only problem is i can't find the leaked docs right now, i'll keep asking around......but don't count your chicken before they hatch ok.....

www.rferl.org

Leaked Records Detail Vast Russian Influence Campaign Targeting Ukraine, EU

A cache of leaked Russian records shines light on a multifaceted Russian disinformation campaign that sought to destabilize Ukraine and damage its support in the West, while also boosting far-right EU parties that would promote pro-Russian narratives.
www.rferl.org www.rferl.org

now while i was doing a google search i decided to go for the company itself......and this made of whats left of my hair stand up while the EU sanction does list a company in Russia:

https://sp-agency.ru/ <-----said bot farm aka troll farm

i found this of which i suspect might be one to, and remember i said "might"

https://socialdesignagency.com/ <----and it's based in Dallas, Tx of all places

ok that's enough of my rabbit hole for today, i'll keep trying to find those docs.....
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Looking at that Texas company pics you would expect one to be the tall strapping guy bringing water in and the boooom chicka booom music starts.

It would be interesting if those models are homegrown or not.
 
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