Russians Still At It

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  1. Dispondent

    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They are targeting you, they target everyone, they just spend less on countries with little to offer them. So are the Chinese, so is everyone else. Democrats needed an excuse for their hilarious defeat, they picked the Russians, that and some Democrats apparently hire Chinese spies, so perhaps they didn't want that out there or didn't want to be called racist for picking on an Asian country...
     
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    The latest efforts are aimed at turning Americans against one another. From the article:
    Operatives were instructed to attack Republicans who failed to sufficiently champion the construction of the border wall that Mr. Trump has sought; to stress the need for strict voter identification laws, especially in “blue states”; and to highlight “scandals that took place when Mueller headed the F.B.I.” in an attempt to discredit the special counsel’s investigation.

    Acknowledging the time difference between Russia and the United States, one conspirator advised the others to post in the morning to attract liberal audiences during the American evening — “L.G.B.T. groups are often active at night,” the operative wrote — and to seek out conservatives awake in the morning by posting just before they left work for the day.

    They also developed strategies for blending in to partisan American audiences. “If you write posts in a liberal group … you must not use Breitbart titles,” read one message sent to the Russian group, referring to the conservative American news site. “On the contrary, if you write posts in a conservative group, do not use Washington Post or BuzzFeed’s titles.”

    The group also gave suggestions, some of them racist, for reaching specific affinity groups. One member suggested keeping posts simple when they were aimed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups of color, writing that “colored L.G.B.T. are less sophisticated than white; therefore, complicated phrases and messages do not work.”
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/us/politics/russia-interference-midterm-elections.html
     

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