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: 2) by GlennC on Monday November 06 2017, @01:45AM (1 child)
The idea that the USA was ever truly united has pretty much always been a lie.
It's high time we acknowledged the reality that we exist as anywhere between 4 and 6 ideologies, and split up the nation accordingly.
Either that or cede power to the oligarchs....which is more likely to happen, anyway.
Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Monday November 06 2017, @01:59AM
Other countries managed to find working solutions which didn't cede any amount of power to oligarchs. Here's a list with examples.
Denmark forms new coalition government [euobserver.com] - 2016
Sweden's new coalition government announced [thelocal.se] - 2014
Dutch parties agree coalition government after a record 208 days [theguardian.com] - 2016
New Zealand Labour signs coalition deal and makes Winston Peters deputy PM [theguardian.com] - 2017
Conservatives agree pact with DUP to support May government [bbc.com] - UK 2017
Coalition governments make the oligarchy life a lot harder (the lobbying costs scales more than linear with the number of parties to be lobbied - not only all of the parties need to be "convinced", they need to be convinced in the same time).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford