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According to The Daily Beast, Jenna Abrams was not a real person at all, but was part of a Russian plot to turn Americans against themselves:
Her opinions about everything from manspreading on the subway to Rachel Dolezal to ballistic missiles still linger on news sites all over the web.
[...] Her account was the creation of employees at the Internet Research Agency, or the Russian government-funded "troll farm," in St. Petersburg.
[...] Abrams' pervasiveness in American news outlets shows just how much impact Russia's troll farm had on American discourse in the run-up to the 2016 election—and illustrates how Russian talking points can seep into American mainstream media without even a single dollar spent on advertising.
While the the [sic] typical image of a Russian troll may be a hastily put together Twitter account blaring out non-stop political messages, Abrams' account went to great lengths to simulate a real, American person who existed outside of Twitter fights and amplifying racist disinformation.
Her Twitter account was created back in 2014. She had a personal website, a Medium page, her own Gmail, and even a GoFundMe page.
takyon: More Russia stuff follows:
SAN FRANCISCO — As many as 126 million people — or one-third the U.S. population — may have seen material posted by a Russian troll farm under fake Facebook identities between 2015 and 2017, according to planned testimony by Facebook's general counsel obtained by USA TODAY.
The weekend after Trump's election, thousands of people attended a left-wing anti-Trump protest in New York City that was secretly organized by Russian operatives, ads released by the House Intelligence Committee revealed.
More than 16,000 people RSVP'd on Facebook for the protest, which was titled: "Trump is NOT my President. March against Trump."
Also at Politico.
Finally, Facebook will require political advertisers to disclose their identities.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @01:02AM (6 children)
Before the Senate Judiciary panel, Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch and Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett revealed that Russia was behind the post-election riots. All those "grassroots" protests in NY and DC, with "Not my president!" and the pussy hats, were being pushed into existence by Russia.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/02/growing-evidence-that-russia-using-the-resistance-to-stoke-division/ [dailycaller.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday November 06 2017, @01:15AM (4 children)
Was it Russia who created this, not you yourselves?
Are you saying otherwise those demonstrations wouldn't have happened and the discontent would have transformed into a ever-loving-our-president bliss?
Are you that naive or just shilling around**?
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** they spend more like "pennies in a pound" ratio (instead of "shillings a pound") with your advertising campaigns and obtained social movements.
This could not have happened if you'd not be already prepared - by your own convictions - to jump on each other's throat.
That budget only get them control over the moment in which that happened, otherwise you'd have done it on your own later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 06 2017, @01:22AM (3 children)
Sure, there were discontented people.
It's like going up to a crashed vehicle leaking fuel, and tossing in a match. You could say that something else would have gotten it going, but perhaps that wouldn't have been the case. Sometimes a fuel leak is just a fuel leak, and the fire department soaks it up with kitty litter. You can't use "it would have burned anyway" to avoid being convicted of arson.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday November 06 2017, @01:30AM
Do you really want the "the fire department soaks it up with kitty litter" scenario get implemented in the USians participation in politics???
Really-really?
(you lost a good chunk of freedom after 9/11, do you want to lose some more?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday November 06 2017, @01:46AM
Besides, look who was "leaking" (nay, scratch that, "spilling" is the word) fuel in copious amounts - it's the same "fire department" (aka your political class).
Do you really want a situation in which they create divisions and then enforce the "no public demonstrations, or else..." rule?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday November 06 2017, @04:25AM
It's like going up to a crashed vehicle leaking fuel, which people are already hosing down with flame throwers, and tossing in a match. The Russia factor is way overrated compared to all the other parties involved. Sure, in the future, some outside party might come up with some sophisticated or lucky combination of propaganda tools that decisively shifts public opinion, but that didn't happen this time.
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Monday November 06 2017, @01:17AM
False and not supported by your source, which is why it didn't make it into the summary. Your article did say this:
If Trump can retweet trolls and conspiracy theorists, Women's March organizers can retweet Russian propaganda that is indistinguishable from real feminist posts.
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