LinkedIn billionaire ‘sorry’ for funding ‘Russian bot’ disinformation campaign against Roy Moore
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The co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, has apologized to Republican Roy Moore for funding an organisation that faked a ‘Russian bot’ involvement to mar his election campaign in Alabama.
American Engagement Technologies (AET), which Hoffman gave $750,000 to, put $100,000 of the entrepreneur’s money towards New Knowledge, a cybersecurity firm which fabricated some 1,000 Russian language Twitter accounts to follow Moore.
The company used the tactic to link the controversial Republican to so-called Russian influence campaigns and then fed it to the mainstream media. They also created misleading Facebook pages urging Republicans to support a ‘write-in’ candidate instead of supporting Moore. The ploy was revealed by New York Times earlier this month.
“I find the tactics that have been recently reported highly disturbing,” Hoffman told the Washington Post. “For that reason, I am embarrassed by my failure to track AET — the organization I did support — more diligently as it made its own decisions to perhaps fund projects that I would reject.”
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.--Eugene Debs
Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.--Harry Truman
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December 27, 2018 at 7:35 PM #5636
disturbing is the clusterf… which is todays USA
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December 27, 2018 at 7:45 PM #5642
coordinate censorhip efforts that use “russian bots” to label and attempt to shut down progressive sites. These groups are all linked to NATO and other government organizations.
There is some incredible investigative news coming out on all fronts that is suggesting the entire “Russian bot” / social media claims are false flag fabricated events.
Yet much of the media is only talking about the fake accounts, not the nature of them nor that they are actually creating and falsefying cyrillic (russian language) accounts and using them for political and geopolitical purposes.
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December 27, 2018 at 7:47 PM #5643
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December 27, 2018 at 7:36 PM #5637
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December 27, 2018 at 8:01 PM #5646
and why won’t it post my second reply???
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December 27, 2018 at 8:10 PM #5653
something like that. It is only a joke. Lots of people have had problems posting second replies. Clearing out my search engine’s cache helped me out a lot. Again, it is connected to some sort of Word Press spam filter that won’t let you curse like a sailor, which is annoying as all Hades to this former sailor. 🙁
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.--Eugene Debs
Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.--Harry Truman
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December 27, 2018 at 8:07 PM #5651
They are trying to figure it out and get it removed, but due to technical IT stuff I do not understand it can take awhile. Besides, one of them has a full time job.
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.--Eugene Debs
Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.--Harry Truman
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December 27, 2018 at 8:26 PM #5662
I finally got it to post. I think also sometimes it may actually post but somehow not show, because at one point it was posted and then it disappeared when I tried to include a link.
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December 27, 2018 at 9:28 PM #5676
either your reply or OP box. Click on the clipboard with the T, let it put anything into plain text. Paste your article from another source in there, click on the T board again. Select everything, and click on the eraser thingie to the right of the T board. That erases all formatting.
Then put in your title line if you haven’t already and click Submit.
And thanks for the info. Anything connected to the Atlantic Council is connected to Henry Kissinger and other warmongering chickenhawks with ties to the Pentagon and defense industries. MIC and intel all the way, and therefore suspect to any progressive.
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.--Eugene Debs
Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.--Harry Truman
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December 27, 2018 at 8:24 PM #5661
and Scottish Nationalists. This is all huge and should be all over our press.
Cui Bono? David Leask, Ben Nimmo and the Attack on Ordinary Scottish Nationalists
We know for certain that the Integrity Initiative targets Scottish Nationalists, because two of its luminaries, otherwise unconnected to each other, David Leask and Ben Nimmo, collaborated on a massive attack piece in the Herald identifying individual SNP supporters as “Russian Bots”.
Ben Nimmo works for the Atlantic Council, funded inter alia by NATO. He is also on a retainer of £2,500 per month from the Integrity Initiative
Nimmo’s role as witchfinder-general for Russian Bots appears very remunerative. His August 2016 invoice to The Institute for Statecraft, apparently the 71st invoice he had issued to various neo-con bodies that year, was for £5,000. -
December 28, 2018 at 10:49 AM #5784
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December 28, 2018 at 7:20 PM #5974
Is his admission a way to get ahead of it and distant himself?
I didn’t read the article but saw a headline a few days ago about this subject (I think) that said the Alabama AG said there might have been some laws broken.
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December 28, 2018 at 8:31 PM #5989
wanted to.
Actually, I think I’d appreciate the irony if they did.
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.--Eugene Debs
Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.--Harry Truman
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December 29, 2018 at 6:21 PM #6235
If you cannot dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit WC Fields
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