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The Russians know us better

rmrd0000 — Mon, 14 May 2018 12:23:17 +0000

The Russians know us better than we know ourselves. When there was talk of increasing police presence in schools after Parkland, many black parents feared for the safety of their children. Many whites never thought about police in school as being a threat. Whites calling the police on blacks who make them feel uncomfortable is a daily occurrence. We live in different worlds.

More Than Half of Russian

artappraiser — Mon, 14 May 2018 01:37:48 +0000

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More Than Half of Russian Facebook Ads Focused on Race

By Chas Danner @ NYMag.com, May 12

Home page lede:

Russia's Race Strategy

When a Kremlin-backed group used social media to divide Americans before and after the 2016 election, it had a go-to wedge issue

Also by happenstance, ran across this interesting Josh Marshall Twitter thread on related:

I believe that many whites do respond to Af-Am self-/political-assertion with intensified white tribalism. The question I think is whether that *causes* it or provokes a more overt defense of privilege. https://t.co/VvGL9UW94G
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 11, 2018

Speaking within my own group, I've certainly seen times when Jews have used charges of anti-semitism too promiscuously - though most often because of brutal historical experience. I've seen this grate on people who feel they are wrongly accused or wrongly tarred.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 11, 2018

two more of the thread urls:

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/995075037156794371

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/995075032295641092

“Future fabrications will be

artappraiser — Sun, 13 May 2018 03:50:16 +0000

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“Future fabrications will be far more difficult to debunk, including so-called ‘deep fakes,’ audio and video clips of, say, politicians saying or doing things they never said or did.” https://t.co/nGhpHHQFCd
— Joel Siegel (@joelmsiegel) May 12, 2018

Baltimore and Ferguson were

rmrd0000 — Sun, 13 May 2018 03:26:40 +0000

In reply to going through the new trove,

Baltimore and Ferguson were targets of the cyberattacks. Local activists were suspicious and there was communication with the Russian, Blacktivist. The Russian tactics are successful because politicians in the United States inflame racial tensions. The recent behavior of employees at multiple businesses who harass black customers by calling the police also create the atmosphere for racial discord. Some black activists are much more concerned about what is happening within our borders to attack the black community more than they are concerned about the cyberattack.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/30/blacktivist-facebook-account-russia-us-election

Black turnout decreased in 2016.The impact of the cyberattack is unclear as there were several forces advising blacks not to vote for Hillllary.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/opinion/black-vote-russia.html

538 finds in difficult to determine the impact of the Russian attack on the decline in black voter turnout

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-did-russian-interference-affect-the-2016-election/

The Russians only attacked the racial division that exists

going through the new trove,

artappraiser — Sun, 13 May 2018 02:44:54 +0000

In reply to The social media ads Russia wanted Americans to see

going through the new trove, April Glaser @ Slate finds that Russian Trolls Were Obsessed With Black Lives Matter