Disinfo for hire: Russian hacking a la carte

By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/03/2018 - 1:04am |

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http://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-emails-show-russia-uses-paid-thugs-to-sow-dissent-and-chaos-2018-4

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& conservative sock-puppetry to get around campaign finance and reporting...

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 04/05/2018 - 7:16pm

Behooves to point out. though, that the message is not targeted to the socially conservative, they are Bannon/Reagan Dem swings scared of "sharia law" taking away their beer, babes, Eiffel Tower and Hollywood western civilization (I found the link she was quoting, she made a pasting error). Not meant for socially conservative eyes, just anti-Muslim ones:

most voters never saw the ads.

And that was by design.

The group, a social welfare organization called Secure America Now, worked hand in hand with Facebook and Google to target their message at voters in swing states who were most likely to be receptive to them.

the other video at the original OpenSecrets.org link (I am reminded of Roseanne Connor):

by artappraiser on Thu, 04/05/2018 - 8:19pm

Ran across this tweet. Strikes me that this is the real Trump fan culture, not the exact same as the world of "Roseanne":

The "Jersey Shore" was called "Macaroni Rascals" in Japan

That is just extraordinary pic.twitter.com/gAeSukuVF3
— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) April 6, 2018

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/06/2018 - 10:43am

Disinfo for hire: Russian hacking a la carte

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