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0 pointssergiotapia8y ago0 comments

This is worse than that. Imagine your Bernie-supporting extended family voting down Fox news stories as "not credible."

Expect mass brigading by /r/politics.

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yeah only one side routinely falls for russian propaganda, downright lies and breitbart.

Really? Here’s a paper (PDF) showing some of the most active & influential #BlackLivesMatter tweeters were linked to Russia. On BOTH SIDES.

http://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/examining-trolls-polar...

This matches similar research I saw in the last few days on some other political topic (can’t remember which) were some of the most important and active tweeters were Russian on both sides.

Russia wasn’t trying to get Trump elected (though they HATED Clinton). They were trying to get America to fight with itself and sew division. They did a really good job.

emodendroket8y ago

Certainly people on both sides were accused of that but the idea that Black Lives Matter was actually just a Russian plot is frankly pretty repellent, and that paper in the end just defers to Twitter's ideas of who's a Russian troll, and how did they decide? We've seen a lot of really shoddy work in this department.

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emodendroket8y ago

Charges of being Russian tools have been hurled at everyone left and right of the DNC (for instance they were going after Jill Stein).

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oculusthrift8y ago

yeah only one side routinely falls for russian propaganda, downright lies and breitbart.

MBCook8y ago

Really? Here’s a paper (PDF) showing some of the most active & influential #BlackLivesMatter tweeters were linked to Russia. On BOTH SIDES.

http://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/examining-trolls-polar...

This matches similar research I saw in the last few days on some other political topic (can’t remember which) were some of the most important and active tweeters were Russian on both sides.

Russia wasn’t trying to get Trump elected (though they HATED Clinton). They were trying to get America to fight with itself and sew division. They did a really good job.

emodendroket8y ago

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emodendroket8y ago

Charges of being Russian tools have been hurled at everyone left and right of the DNC (for instance they were going after Jill Stein).

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse