a quick poll about Russia and Donald Trump

This is not Valery Gerasimov. pic.twitter.com/102BecI8r2

— Alexey Kovalev (@Alexey__Kovalev) September 19, 2017

Off to a cracking start, lads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbKNICg-REA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=49&v=Uz9PNoecNxU

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKwMzG5X0AAob32.jpg:large

i... what?

miso confused

Russians are still messing w America on social media, in this case posing as Boston Antifa to foment dissension re: the NFL

this is too fucking weird.

not to get all black mirror but this seems like just the very beginning of something that will never go away

It might not go away but it can be severely hampered. The famous oligarch-funded SPB troll factory has pretty much abandoned Twitter and pivoted to video started to focus on gaming domestic news search metrics - partly because it doesn't seem to have been considered worth the effort but probably primarily because Twitter actively went after them and shut down 80% of their accounts.

Facebook, by and large, doesn't have this problem. Even the Russian site Vkontakte has less of an issue - because you need a valid phone number to register a new account.

You can buy a thousand Twitter folllowers or Instagram likes at vending machines in Moscow for $2. You can hire people to run fake accounts for you online for not much more. Until Twitter and IG stop inflating their user numbers by counting fake accounts and start looking at ways to cull them systematically, it is only likely to get worse.

started to focus on gaming domestic news

read this as "domestic gaming news"

neat thread on that Boston Antifa account

so the fake antifa twitter fucked up today and included their geo location.

this is a really interesting case because it illustrates a few- pic.twitter.com/ZeZmSZXkQg

— j🎃ssica (@my2k) September 27, 2017

Jesus christ.

maybe that gaffe was on purpose, cocky, like, american football is so old school; the real sport is international trolling and getting away with treason

Reminds me of this:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2013/03/boston_police_catfishing_indie_rockers_cops_pose_as_punks_on_the_internet.html

wow if the FBI includes this fake NFL meme as evidence then it will be an open-shut case lol. /s

on the plus side the next time the US needs to depose a leader hey no need for armed conflict or drones just make some based memes.

a catch with that is other countries in the world, at least first world nations, don't have masses of assholes like we do dumb enough to vote for super-rightwing dipshits we consider 'normal conservatives'. the first world countries are a lot smarter on the whole than kochistan

OK, again, the majority voted for Hillary.

Not so much with Brexit btw

Facebook, by and large, doesn't have this problem.

They have different ones.

QUIZ: Which 2016 Presidential candidate sent the following tweet last night:

Why are we under constant attack by the political establishment, the media and Hollywood? Because the elites feel threatened. Keep it up!

The answer may surprise you!

the elites feel threatened by all the extra money they're about to get once the GOP cuts their taxes. mrga

If you’re an American who doesn’t feel threatened, fuck you.

xxp: It didn't!

even if we do get our own spacious modernist house in order what are we gonna do about those third world nations full of assholes :(

Whoa, just noticed this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NotN9NbGYNU

Look at the comment from "Lynne the Mad Scientist" and then check out the videos she has posted:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MadScientist77777/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd

Don't hate on her just because she's a Momus fan dude

Last Friday, most major media outlets touted a major story about Russian attempts to hack into U.S. voting systems, based exclusively on claims made by the Department of Homeland Security. “Russians attempted to hack elections systems in 21 states in the run-up to last year’s presidential election, officials said Friday,” began the USA Today story, similar to how most other outlets presented this extraordinary claim.

So what was wrong with this story? Just one small thing: it was false. The story began to fall apart yesterday when Associated Press reported that Wisconsin – one of the states included in the original report that, for obvious reasons, caused the most excitement – did not, in fact, have its election systems targeted by Russian hackers.... Then the story collapsed completely last night. The Secretary of State for another one of the named states, California, issued a scathing statement repudiating the claimed report...

None of this means that every Russia claim is false, nor does it disprove the accusation that Putin ordered the hacking of the DNC and John Podesta’s email inboxes (a claim for which, just by the way, still no evidence has been presented by the U.S. government). Perhaps there were some states that were targeted, even though the key claims of this story, that attracted the most attention, have now been repudiated.

But what it does demonstrate is that an incredibly reckless, anything-goes climate prevails when it comes to claims about Russia. Media outlets will publish literally any official assertion as Truth without the slightest regard for evidentiary standards.

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/yet-another-major-russia-story-falls-apart-is-skepticism-permissible-yet/

what could it MEAN? opinions vary.

lol except not in the brazilian dacha

There are literally no journalistic standards or evidentiary requirements for claims about Russia, & noting that means you're unpatriotic. https://t.co/g5ZLC04nP2

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 22, 2017

Lol yes the Secretary of State for California is totally better equipped to assess cybersecurity issues than DHS et al.

obstreperous ass clown.

what could it MEAN? opinions vary.

lol except not in the brazilian dacha

There are literally no journalistic standards or evidentiary requirements for claims about Russia, & noting that means you're unpatriotic. https://t.co/g5ZLC04nP2
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 22, 2017
― felix! phelix! ghelix! (Hunt3r), Thursday, September 28, 2017 2:28 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
one of the worst posts I've seen on here in a while

someone needs to tell the Wisconsin Elections Commission to take this fake news off their website.

lol xpost

who the fuck is demanding evidentiary standards in journalism dipshit

Journalistic standards are good and TheIntercept should have employed some when they were pushing bullshit stories based on weak assumptions over stolen emails in the last stretch of the election. That would have been nice.

Well it’s an RT subsidiary, what do you expect

you're so predictable, spymaster, in your delusions

Frederik, plz defenestrate

who the fuck is demanding evidentiary standards in journalism dipshit

― felix! phelix! ghelix! (Hunt3r), Thursday, September 28, 2017 3:11 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, im the dipshit. not the shit-posting russiagate centrist dad

alfa bank's american defense attorney is now the head of the american department of justice's criminal investigation division

https://www.courthousenews.com/judiciary-committee-approves-trump-pick-doj-crime-chief/

#mrga

Perhaps . . . 2scoops's only motivation was a hotel in Moscow. He's been dreaming of that since 1987. He tried several times prior to the campaign to get one and they all fell through. It seems, through the Cohen/Sater emails, that he was really hoping he could pull off the deal they came up with at the Miss Universe pageant.

Now, parallel to all that are two other plots: Putin and Trump's kids/family.

Putin clearly wanted sanctions lifted. Could be his entire purpose with Trump was to

a) sow discord in the US, furthering the potential Balkanization of America

and

b) on the off chance 2scoops somehow beat Hillary, to erase sanctions.

If 2scoops pulled off b), he would've been rewarded with that sizable share of Rosneft, or he would finally get his Trump Hotel Moscow.

As for the scoopspawn, maybe they wanted him to win, or at least not get his ass handed to him in a "reverse Reagan '84". To that end, they enlisted the help of the GRU and FSB to help their cyber wing of the campaign, with Kushner directing it. Half Scoop and Eric(!) possibly did a lot of the side deals to make sure daddy's dream of Trump Hotel Moscow became true regardless of the outcome.

A lot of the shadier non-Trump family were likely hired by Stone (who Trump hired because they're bros), hired by someone hired by Stone, or already a longtime Trump associate (Cohn, Sater, etc.)??????????

glad we finally figured out who is sowing discord in the US

http://www.billboard.com/files/styles/article_main_image/public/media/ian-mackaye-2014-billboard-650.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/russian-facebook-ads-michigan-wisconsin/index.html

xp

Funny, but he was indeed spotted hanging out at the juggalo march.

xpost If accurate that seems pretty huge.

Why can't the Senate get this basic information about the Steele dossier? Who is hiding it, and why? pic.twitter.com/PyZYpZdbOk

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 4, 2017

apparently, glenn simpson, the fusion GPS guy who commissioned the report

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/attorney-glenn-simpson-reveal-clients-trump-dossier-investigators/story?id=49367909

While Simpson’s attorney said his client provided significant details about his firm’s findings, he did not reveal the identities of those who paid for his research.

so someone's protecting their sources, why is this a story? I don't get it

I always thought the lore around the dossier was that it was ordered by a GOP primary foe like Jeb or Rubio or Cruz.

obviously they can't get that info because Steele refuses to cooperate and they can't subpoena him.

Greenwald is not v smart sometimes.

He is playing dumb on purpose to obscure the fact that he helped Trump by pushing Russian leaks.