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| Russian Trolls Aren’t Actually Persuading Americans on Twitter, Study Finds |
| 2019-11-30 |
| [OneZero] New research highlights a surprising barrier to hacking our democracy: filter bubbles. We know that Russian agents have been using social media to try to influence other countries’ politics since at least 2013. We know they’ve successfully posed as Americans to post divisive ...politicians call things divisivewhen when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive,they're principled... propaganda on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and we know they’ve generated significant engagement on all three platforms. They may have even managed to stage fake political rallies that real Americans attended. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 All the Russians are doing is echoing our own Woke idiots. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-30 12:28 |
| #6 Has anyone ever been persuaded to change their opinion by something they read on Twitter? I didn't think so. It is basically a way to spout off and make your voice heard among all the other voices saying stupid stuff. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-11-30 12:21 |
| #5 Pardon my 'Told you so'. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-11-30 11:13 |
| #4 We've gotten used to being lied to by our self proclaimed betters. |
| Posted by: Unaitle Panda6599 2019-11-30 11:06 |
| #3 Mind you the MSM trolls are hardly persuading anymore either. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-11-30 11:03 |
| #2 ^ Lex here. WARBM = We Are Ruled By Morons. who spread divisive propaganda for profit and fame |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-30 06:10 |
| #1 ... to post divisive propaganda on FB, Twitter... "Divisive propaganda" - got it. Extending tw's astute point, nothing posted by the trolls is more inflammatory and "divisive" than the half-decade or so of CONSTANT LIES about the actual incidence and extent of police brutality against black men and boys. So let's see how the media/Woke/BLM logic works. According to them: ... it was not "divisive propaganda" when the BLM movement falsely claimed Michael Brown was murdered - and when nearly every Dem POTUS candidate repeated this lie. ... it was not "divisive propaganda" to claim that Trump, not Obama, initiated the policy of family separation and that Satan Mussolini-Trump was torturing poor innocent Guatemalan etc children, making them drink from toilets etc. ... it was not "divisive propaganda" to claim, for nearly THREE YEARS and in the face of all the hard indisputable evidence of escalation against and confrontation toward Russia, that Trump was an agent of the Russian government. Nope. Not divisive at all. No propaganda here. WARBM. |
| Posted by: Thains Ebberetle6842 2019-11-30 06:05 |