The CBC is a propaganda organ for the Canadian government now?
Wait, if you're here, who's manning Ontario Proud?
Russian bots, 'troll factory' test waters ahead of U.S. midterms
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Wait, if you're here, who's manning Ontario Proud?
I’m sure our intelligence agencies are working with both parties, as well as FB and google to safeguard and counter the upcoming attack. My opinion is they aren’t saying anything about it because they don’t want the Russians to know the details.
I would imagine that the FBI and intelligence agencies are doing everything they can on their own with, you know, no direct support from the White House or the GOP-led congress.
It is working as intended. They get to sell bot impressions to advertisers for $$$$$ and they have plausible deniability.
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Of course it is? Same as BBC, Voice of America, RT etc, etc. Government's don't run news organizations out of a commitment to the notion of objective truth.
It can be a relatively benign source of propaganda but don't fool yourself about what it is or deny that it's worth a sensible chuckle to note the irony involved in a state run broadcaster being aghast at another state shaping the news to its benefit.
I don't care if we started it. I just want us to win and Russia to lose.
We will take back power in November and fuck Russia's weak shit up.
How bout them apples?
CBC = BBC = NPR = RT? That's a false equivalency if I've ever seen one.
Think of the CBC/BBC less as "being funded by the govt.," and more as "being funded by the public."
Schools and hospitals aren't run in order to extract fast cash from parents of students, and patients respectively, whereas institutions funded privately (Trump University for example) can be.
Of course, the Tories implemented legislation to interfere with the CBC's independence (surprise).
https://m.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/04/30/bill-c60-cbc-harper_n_3187821.html
The CBC ran that story of the Trudeau's vacationing at the Aga Khan's island into the ground. They report on Wynne's scandals, but didn't bring up Doug's Ford history as a drug dealer. They're not biased for the party in power.
Exactly this.
When Russia installed Yanukovych as the Prez in Ukraine, Ukrainians protested and had him booted -TWICE. Then Russia invaded Crimea. Ukraine still fights for that territory.
One expects when a nation is attacked, a nation resists. The GoP of the USA aren't resisting. That's messed up. The GoP are actively suppressing any response and working to help Russia undermine the USA.
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By the way, one of the number one objective of these troll farms, is to attempt to discredit stories of the troll farms. That's why we have this MDS guy in here along with that russian dude attempting to deflect the story.
The US has long had it owns social media manipulating operation. (See: Eglin Airforce Base registering as the most reddit addicted city in America for a number of years. then suddenly disappearing from those the rankings when people started putting that together with some of various publications coming from there: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf)
There's a lot of countries that have similar ops, they just don't get publicized as much in the mainstream news. Britain's 77th Brigade, for instance, has a mission about conducting psychological operations on social media, is larger then Russia's Internet Research Agency (aka the Trollfarm), but there exists basically no journalism about what exactly they're doing all day.
Only slightly on topic, but we had that thread on Russia co-opting the whyiamleaving hashtag, something like that. I use google not signed in so I see fox headlines often, too often. One of their current headlines is an article about why someone is running as a Republican after being a Dem for a long time. It’s pretty much a Whyimleaving advertisement. I’m sure this wouldn’t be used by the Russian bot.
Sick reply, thanks for the info. Gonna read about the 77th Brigade (might join them one day).
I just found and reported the USA really Facebook page .
Its not much, but its at least something we can do activly.
Its not much, but its at least something we can do activly.
Is everyone that disagrees a Russian Troll? If they are, then the government sucks at screening because I used to have Top Secret clearance and spent literally hundreds of hours of my life across 3 deployments in Iraq talking with various spooks as I chain-smoked in the smoking area that sat between the area of the base that had my barracks and a base annex that did not officially exist.
It is really really important to maintain skepticism about the sources, keep a sense of proportion about the accusation, and put it all in context. It honestly terrifies me that we're back to a place where Bill Kristol and Michael Chertoff are back to being highly cited, unimpeachable sources*, it didn't even take a decade.
*both members of the Alliance For Securing Democracy, which has been behind a ton of the "info" on russian troll activity
Looks like some trolls already infiltrated this site and are both siding to downplay this article. Lol @ RT = CBC.
Don't forget, comrades:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
Don't forget, comrades:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
Oh fucking joy...
I expect theRussians Republicans in power will do absolutely nothing in response.
I expect the
lmao
Where were you when America destroyed the USSR and Russia afterwards? Was that an invasion? Give me a break. Don't have a different definition of war on an ad-hoc basis
Wait until the American economy is destroyed, wealth sold for peanuts to oligarchs, elections are undoubtedly rigged for a DRUNK president being hauled by the enemy while your citizens are dying from hunger again directly because of sabotage. Then you can call it even.
I just wanted to mention how stupid and shortsighted this post is. You've left me in awe.
A junior account with 47 posts getting a 1 week ban after equating RT and the fucking BBC.
And people say Era's moderation is too harsh.
yeah,Reality is that very few users actually run these networks. Many people are just watching and reading and have accounts for that or they may just follow stuff.