Behold, another analytical findings report by those "Cybersecurity Gurus" (a.k.a. Super Smarty Pants) on why Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election.
FINDINGS: "THE RUSSIANS MADE THE BLACK PEOPLE DO IT".
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Here is the link to the Internet Research Agency report submitted to U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence explaining how Trump won the election.
I would have posted but for some odd reason this public document submitted into the Senate record seems to be privately locked.
Things that just make you go "hmmmmmm......"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NP0GiHMUDSCfSeLobSrzfeNo6NPbFFaz/view?usp=sharing
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| https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/533-read-report-internet-research-agency/7871ea6d5b7bedafbf19/optimized/full.pdf#page=1 |
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They know everything about making Black people vote in Detroit!
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Upon request by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), New Knowledge reviewed an expansive data set of social media posts and metadata provided to SSCI by Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet, plus a set of related data from additional platforms. The data sets were provided by the three primary platforms to serve as evidence for an investigation into the Internet Research Agency (IRA) influence operations. (your tax dollars at work).
I bet they used that highly sophisticated Brown Paper Bag test or the One-Drop Rule.
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| Cyber-evidence of Russian mind control supporting the "Cybersecurity Gurus" findings of 2016 election interference targeting Blacks |
Yup.
All Blacks changed their votes to Trump because Boris & Natasia made some really, intensely, philosophically deep memes.
"Cybersecurity Gurus" (a.k.a. Super Smarty Pants) know everything about Blacks because they live in the Sequestered Ivory Tower up there in Uber Rich Man's Land and came down to hand out to "The Elected Ones" these sheep dipped talking points for the upcoming legal actions under the Office of Special Counsel.
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Just listen to Michigan State Senator Marty Knollengerg because he knows everything about how "The Poors of the darker persuasion"" (always said with clinched teeth) cannot learn stuff.
#KnollenbergIsAnAsshole.
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I bet those "Cybersecurity Gurus" (a.k.a. Super Smarty Pants) gave Marty those privatized scientific research campaign talking points to go along with his campaign financing.
Even the New York Times got those "Cybersecurity Gurus" (a.k.a. Super Smarty Pants) talking points.
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And that is the story of how Trump won the election, told by the "Cybersecurity Gurus" (a.k.a. Super Smarty Pants) which completely contradicts the tale told by the Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed.
Yup.
The "Cybersecurity Gurus" (a.k.a. Super Smarty Pants) know everything about those Blacks.
Even Detroit's own Nolan Finley will tell you the same thing about those targeted African-American voting populations because he knows everything, too!
Yup.
All you had to do is make a meme and the Blacks in Detroit voted for Trump which is how he won the 2016 election.
The report adds new details to the portrait that has emerged over the last two years of the energy and imagination of the Russian effort to sway American opinion and divide the country, which the authors said continues to this day.
One Facebook page, called “‘Merican Fury,” declared falsely that Mr. Mueller “worked with radical Islamic groups.” Another, “Back the Badge,” called James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director fired by Mr. Trump, “a dirty cop.”
Creating accounts designed to pass as belonging to Americans, the Internet Research Agency spread its messages not only via Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, which have drawn the most attention, but also on YouTube, Reddit, Tumblr, Pinterest, Vine and Google+, among other platforms. Its attack on the United States used almost exclusively high-tech tools created by American companies.
Of 81 Facebook pages created by the Internet Research Agency in the Senate’s data, 30 targeted African-American audiences, amassing 1.2 million followers, the report finds. By comparison, 25 pages targeted the political right and drew 1.4 million followers. Just seven pages focused on the political left, drawing 689,045 followers.
“Regrettably, it appears that the platforms may have misrepresented or evaded in some of their statements to Congress,” the report says, noting what it calls one false claim that specific population groups were not targeted by the influence operation and another that the campaign did not seek to discourage voting.
Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©
I bet those "Cybersecurity Gurus" (a.k.a. Super Smarty Pants) gave Marty those privatized scientific research campaign talking points to go along with his campaign financing.
Even the New York Times got those "Cybersecurity Gurus" (a.k.a. Super Smarty Pants) talking points.
Yup.
And that is the story of how Trump won the election, told by the "Cybersecurity Gurus" (a.k.a. Super Smarty Pants) which completely contradicts the tale told by the Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed.
The "Cybersecurity Gurus" (a.k.a. Super Smarty Pants) know everything about those Blacks.
Even Detroit's own Nolan Finley will tell you the same thing about those targeted African-American voting populations because he knows everything, too!
Yup.
All you had to do is make a meme and the Blacks in Detroit voted for Trump which is how he won the 2016 election.
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| "Praise the Lord and vote Trump in Detroit 2016" said St. Felicia, Patron Saint of Farewells |
Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media
The Russian influence campaign on social media in the 2016 election made an extraordinary effort to target African-Americans, used an array of tactics to try to suppress turnout among Democratic voters and unleashed a blizzard of activity on Instagram that rivaled or exceeded its posts on Facebook, according to a report produced for the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“Active and ongoing interference operations remain on several platforms,” says the report, produced by New Knowledge, a cybersecurity company based in Austin, Tex., along with researchers at Columbia University and Canfield Research LLC. One continuing Russian campaign, for instance, seeks to influence opinion on Syria by promoting Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president and a Russian ally in the brutal conflict there.
The New Knowledge report is one of two commissioned by the Senate committee on a bipartisan
basis. They are based largely on data about the Russian operations provided to the Senate by Facebook, Twitter and the other companies whose platforms were used.
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| This report on how Blacks voted for Trump was funded by the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee |
The Russian influence campaign in 2016 was run by a St. Petersburg company called the Internet Research Agency, owned by a businessman, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, who is a close ally of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Mr. Prigozhin and a dozen of the company’s employees were indicted last February as part of the investigation of Russian interference by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel.
Both reports stress that the Internet Research Agency created social media accounts under fake names on virtually every available platform. A major goal was to support Donald J. Trump, first against his Republican rivals in the presidential race, then in the general election, and as president since his inauguration.
Among the services the Russians have provided Mr. Trump is to join in and amplify his regular attacks on Mr. Mueller. Posing as fed-up Americans, the Internet Research Agency trolls have denounced the investigation of Russian election interference as a “weird conspiracy” pushed only by “liberal crybabies,” the New Knowledge report says.
One Facebook page, called “‘Merican Fury,” declared falsely that Mr. Mueller “worked with radical Islamic groups.” Another, “Back the Badge,” called James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director fired by Mr. Trump, “a dirty cop.”
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| "Russia made Blacks vote for Trump and you better believe me or else." said the Super Smarty Pants. |
The New Knowledge researchers discovered many examples of the Russian operators building an audience with one theme and then shifting to another, often more provocative, set of messages. For instance, an Instagram account called @army_of_jesus_ first posted in January 2015 images from “The Muppet Show,” then shifted to “The Simpsons” and by early 2016 became Jesus-focused. Multiple memes associated Jesus with Mr. Trump’s campaign and Satan with that of his rival, Hillary Clinton.
The Russian campaign was the subject of Senate hearings last year and has been widely scrutinized by academic experts. The new reports largely confirm earlier findings: that the campaign was designed to attack Mrs. Clinton, boost Mr. Trump and exacerbate existing divisions in American society.
But the New Knowledge report gives particular attention to the Russians’ focus on African-collections of their memes and messages.
Americans, which is evident to anyone who examines
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| "Vote Trump 2016 in Detroit" (more proof from the Super Smarty Pants that Russian memes made Blacks in Detroit vote for Trump in 2016.) |
“The most prolific I.R.A. efforts on Facebook and Instagram specifically targeted black American communities and appear to have been focused on developing black audiences and recruiting black Americans as assets,” the report says. Using Gmail accounts with American-sounding names, the Russians recruited and sometimes paid unwitting American activists of all races to stage rallies and spread content, but there was a disproportionate pursuit of African-Americans, it concludes.
The report says that while “other distinct ethnic and religious groups were the focus of one or two Facebook Pages or Instagram accounts, the black community was targeted extensively with dozens.” In some cases, Facebook ads were targeted at users who had shown interest in particular topics, including black history, the Black Panther Party and Malcolm X. The most popular of the Russian Instagram accounts was @blackstagram, with 303,663 followers.
The Internet Research Agency also created a dozen websites disguised as African-American in origin, with names like blackmattersus.com, blacktivist.info, blacktolive.org and blacksoul.us. On YouTube, the largest share of Russian material covered the Black Lives Matter movement and police brutality, with channels called “Don’t Shoot” and “BlackToLive.”
The report does not seek to explain the heavy focus on African-Americans. But the Internet Research Agency’s tactics echo Soviet propaganda efforts from decades ago that often highlighted racism and racial conflict in the United States, as well as recent Russian influence operations in other countries that sought to stir ethnic strife.
Renee DiResta, one of the report’s authors and director of research at New Knowledge, said the Internet Research Agency “leveraged pre-existing, legitimate grievances wherever they could.” As the election effort geared up, the Black Lives Matter movement was at the center of national attention in the United States, so the Russian operation took advantage of it, she said — and added “Blue Lives Matter” material when a pro-police pushback emerged.
“Very real racial tensions and feelings of alienation exist in America, and have for decades,” Ms. DiResta said. “The I.R.A. didn’t create them. It exploits them.”
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In response, the N.A.A.C.P. said it would not use Facebook or Instagram for a week and urged its social media followers and partners to do the same.
While the right-wing pages promoted Mr. Trump’s candidacy, the left-wing pages scorned Mrs. Clinton while promoting Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate. The voter suppression effort was focused particularly on Sanders supporters and African-Americans, urging them to shun Mrs. Clinton in the general election and either vote for Ms. Stein or stay home.
Whether such efforts had a significant effect is difficult to judge. Black voter turnout declined in 2016 for the first time in 20 years in a presidential election, but it is impossible to determine whether that was the result of the Russian campaign.
The New Knowledge report argues that the Internet Research Agency’s presence on Instagram has
been underestimated and may have been as effective or more effective than its Facebook effort. The report says there were 187 million engagements on Instagram — users “liking” or sharing the content created in Russia — compared with 76.5 million engagements on Facebook.
been underestimated and may have been as effective or more effective than its Facebook effort. The report says there were 187 million engagements on Instagram — users “liking” or sharing the content created in Russia — compared with 76.5 million engagements on Facebook.
In 2017, as the American news media focused on the Russian operations on Facebook and Twitter, the Russian effort shifted strongly to Instagram, the report says.
The New Knowledge report criticizes social media companies for misleading the public.
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| “It is unclear whether these answers were the result of faulty or lacking analysis, or a more deliberate evasion,” the report says. |
“It is unclear whether these answers were the result of faulty or lacking analysis, or a more deliberate evasion,” the report says.
The report suggests a grudging respect for the scale and creativity of Russian influence operations.
But the Russians were not eager to take credit for their own efforts.
But the Russians were not eager to take credit for their own efforts.
After the election, the report says, the Internet Research Agency put up some 70 posts on Facebook and Instagram that mocked the claims that Russia had interfered in the election.
Obviously, New Knowledge, researchers at Columbia University and Canfield Research LLC omitted the research of this African-American, Black man from Detroit.
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Stealin' was one of those variables the report does not like to talk about, either.
Obviously, New Knowledge, researchers at Columbia University and Canfield Research LLC omitted the research of this African-American, Black man from Detroit.
Yup.
Stealin' was one of those variables the report does not like to talk about, either.
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