The problem we have is that as a culture we allow lies to be told about political candidates by opposing candidates. So, all of the fake internet shit is lawful, as long as it doesn't involve other activity that is criminal:
--In South Korea, the nation's former top intelligence official used bots in a misinformation campaign against the opposition party, for which he was indicted in 2013. 3
--Is fraudulent Twitter activity criminal?
--Is Hope Hicks disavowal that TO has not purchased any bots for social media a crime? 3
"Novel" words used by an online community are usually unique to that community. 2
Pro-Trump networks tweet incessantly: praise Trump, bash Clinton and media, retweet fake accounts, turning the issue back on the red herring and dilute attention to real issue. 3
Activity designed to amplify certain messages. 3
Worked to promote a single candidate: Trump 3
Bots accomplish:
harassing critics into silence to shape information environment
spread misinformation
make supporters feel as if a part of thriving p=movement
"normalize" fringe views
dilute/delegitimize legitimate/informative conversation
3
Bot creators are:
content management firms
advertising firms
individuals
to:
sell crappy products
House candidates
Senate candidates
political elections
by purchasing social media accounts 2
with Bitcoin, Perfectmoney, Yandex Money, Kiwi, or a Unitpay.re system
from
Russian sites like BuyAcc, 2
through subcontracts not noticeable on FEC documents. 3
Sockpuppets:
introduce new-novel language to the community 2
were 6 times more likely to use "hitlery" than other communities 2
twice as many posts per day as real users 2
were only active in 2016 2
and mentioned Russia was NOT interfering four times more often than other users. 2
Social media accounts can go for less than a dollar. Bot operators run small subsets of accounts through huge network of different IP addresses that are masked by software that redirects web requests through series of proxies. 2 Linux/moose 2
Was Trump's eschewing of television's role in campaigning for practically absolute reliance on manufactured internet content evidence of his commitment to reaching only those types of people that were "addicted" to and exploitable via digital activities? Is it also evidence of his collusion with Cambridge Analytics-type brain-bending bc "people believe what the Internet says more than reality" ? 3 [Andres Sepulveda, who was on JJ Rendon's payroll]
Russian Digital Activities: bots, trolls, cyborgs, and sock puppets
-- 2016 4 and 7 Twitter: Conversations in Twitter's conservative communities, the Trump Campaign's Facebook page, and Breitbart's comment section suddenly and simultaneously changed. All three adopted eerily similar language during the same period of time." Communities novel words started overlapping so significantly that analysis suggests they were all written by the same author or group using the same playbook. 2
-- 2016 3 through 8 30,000 bots 2
-- 2016 News reports Trump used foundation money to pay legal fees, but army of tweeters kept focus on Clinton foundation and links to blogs 3
-- 2016 Trump's controversial statements diluted with bot messages appearing to be latino supporters with mixed messages 3
-- 2016 Trump stumbled on tax return release question in debate, but twitter army created appearance of grass roots demand for Clinton accountability and links to like sentimented blogs 3
-- 2016 4 and 7 1314 bots posted a tweet with identical content to four or more other tweets. 2
-- 2017 8 McMaster August Troll campaign 1 according to Alliance for Securing Democracy (tracks Russia propaganda)
Supremacist Activities: bots, trolls, cyborgs
bots of nationalists,a nd sock puppets
keksec_org
WhiteGenocideTM (retweeted by Trump)
Breitbart's
Mike Cernovich:
--2017 8 called H.R. McMaster a Deep State Plant, National Security Adviser, fired predecessor Flynn's hires (Ezra Cohen-Watnick, Rich Higgins, Derek Harvey) 1
--2017 8 Website called McMaster Leaks set up in August, 2017 1
Daily Caller's:
-- 2017 8 Senior NSC officials say McMaster opposes everything prez wants to do 1
Fox News's
Tucker Carlson:
-- 2017 8 Prez not a fan of what McMaster's doing 1
Circa
--2017 8 leaked letter re: susan rice's clearance 1
Trump's Nationalists:
Ezra Cohen-Watnick -- Director for Intelligence
Rich Higgins
Derek Harvey --
Steve Bannon --
-- 2016 1 thru 3 Trump quoted 150 fake bot accounts
Computational Propaganda Project
Alliance for Securing Democracy
Sources;
1. Salon, Right-wing media and Russian bots unite to target Trump's national security advisor, Sophia Tesfaye, 8 4 2017
2. Date for Democracy, Jonathan Morgan, 3 31 2017, Sockpuppets, Secessionists, and Breitbart; How Russia May Have Orchestrated a Massive Social Media Influence Campaign.
3. Politico, 2016 9 30, Inside Trump's 'cyborg' Twitter army, Ben Schreckinger
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