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At this point there have been so many claims of election interference with nothing to prove it so I have no qualms about simply dismissing yours unless you deem

by rascul 8y ago

At this point there have been so many claims of election interference with nothing to prove it so I have no qualms about simply dismissing yours unless you deem it worthwhile to back up your claims. I'm not doubting that they interfered, I just haven't seen any evidence of it and you haven't helped at all.

viraptor 8y ago
Ok, let's play then Either news agencies don't influence elections or fake "news accounts" did: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/how-the-kremlin-tried-to-pose-as-american-news-sites-on-twitter https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/how-the-k... Some review of IRA-run accounts featured in popular news outlets: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323703483_The_Twitter_exploit_How_Russian_propaganda_infiltrated_US_news https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323703483_The_Twitt... Either celebrities don't influence elections, or IRA accounts like ten_gop did: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/10/19/how-ann-coulter-nicki-minaj-and-other-celebrities-unwittingly-spread-the-work-of-russian-operatives.html https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/10/19/how-ann-coulte... More detailed story of a specific post-election hashtag: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/04/trump-twitter-russians-release-the-memo-216935 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/04/trump-twi... And of course there's the cozy bear / Dutch agency episode, confirming the source of some documents releases to wikileaks: https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2213767-dutch-intelligence-first-to-alert-u-s-about-russian-hack-of-democratic-party.html https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2213767-dutch-intelligence-... Each story is present it a few places - sourced mixed to reduce bias. We may never know what was the scale of the influence, so that's the debatable part. But unless someone claims that popular social media accounts have no influence over the results, they agree that IRA did play a part. You could also speculate that IRA is not led by silly people eager to waste government money for internet LOLs. If their efforts were not effective, why do they continue that for years?
- rascul 8y ago
  I won't have time to reply for awhile (maybe not until tomorrow evening), but I will reply, so feel free to keep watching for it.

by rascul 8y ago

viraptor 8y ago

Ok, let's play then Either news agencies don't influence elections or fake "news accounts" did: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/how-the-kremlin-tried-to-pose-as-american-news-sites-on-twitter https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/how-the-k... Some review of IRA-run accounts featured in popular news outlets: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323703483_The_Twitter_exploit_How_Russian_propaganda_infiltrated_US_news https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323703483_The_Twitt... Either celebrities don't influence elections, or IRA accounts like ten_gop did: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/10/19/how-ann-coulter-nicki-minaj-and-other-celebrities-unwittingly-spread-the-work-of-russian-operatives.html https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/10/19/how-ann-coulte... More detailed story of a specific post-election hashtag: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/04/trump-twitter-russians-release-the-memo-216935 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/04/trump-twi... And of course there's the cozy bear / Dutch agency episode, confirming the source of some documents releases to wikileaks: https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2213767-dutch-intelligence-first-to-alert-u-s-about-russian-hack-of-democratic-party.html https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2213767-dutch-intelligence-... Each story is present it a few places - sourced mixed to reduce bias. We may never know what was the scale of the influence, so that's the debatable part. But unless someone claims that popular social media accounts have no influence over the results, they agree that IRA did play a part. You could also speculate that IRA is not led by silly people eager to waste government money for internet LOLs. If their efforts were not effective, why do they continue that for years?

rascul 8y ago
I won't have time to reply for awhile (maybe not until tomorrow evening), but I will reply, so feel free to keep watching for it.