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GOP senator: Russian trolls using NFL spat to 'push divisiveness' in US

That's the senator from my state of Oklahoma. A round of applause. Isn't he great?
[The Hill] A Republican senator said Wednesday that Russian trolls are taking advantage of the spat between President Trump and NFL players who protest during the national anthem to "push divisiveness" in the United States.

Sen. James Lankford (Okla.) said trolls are "taking both sides of the argument" by employing hashtags such as "#TakeAKnee" and "#BoycottNFL" on social media.

"They were taking both sides of the argument this past weekend and pushing them out from their troll farms as much as they could to try to just raise the noise level in America and to make a big issue seem like an even bigger issue as they’re trying to push divisiveness in the country," Lankford said during a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

"We’ve continued to be able to see that. We will see that again in our election time."

Moscow's efforts at hacking the 2016 elections allegedly included influence campaigns on social media, and officials from Facebook and Google were on Wednesday invited to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee as it probes last year's meddling.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

Posted by Hupeting Sforza8196 2017-09-28 00:23|| 2017-09-28 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Using the methods they've developed to promote communism to promote soccer?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-28 03:16|| 2017-09-28 03:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Lankford claimed his version of the Dream Act would ban chain migration when the bill in fact lets them get green cards, which leads to citizenship after 5 years of residency, and the aforementioned chain migration. Unfortunately, Lankford cannot be primaried until 2022.

Mr. Lankford is co-sponsoring the Succeed Act with Sen. Thom Tillis, North Carolina Republican, that creates a pathway to legalization for DACA recipients, but doesn’t allow for so-called “chain migration.” The bill would not allow green-card holders to petition close family members to help with permanent residency, but it does allow those protected under DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) to obtain citizenship if they remain in good standing.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2017-09-28 08:35|| 2017-09-28 08:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Using the methods they've developed to promote communism to promote soccer?

If anything was a communist plot, it'd be soccer.

Posted by Pappy 2017-09-28 11:10|| 2017-09-28 11:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Wouldn't put it past the Ruskies to do such a thing. Russians tried to hack the servers I administered every day. My solution would be to firewall all Russian IP addresses...Chinese too while you're at it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-09-28 14:32|| 2017-09-28 14:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Okie GOPe

Shakespearean that.
A million Russians typing.
Putin in your pipe.

Posted by JHH 2017-09-28 14:55|| 2017-09-28 14:55|| Front Page Top

#7 By Russian trolls he means American Liberals.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-09-28 14:57|| 2017-09-28 14:57|| Front Page Top

#8 If anything was a communist plot, it'd be soccer.

A joke I've learned in summer camp (in SovU) 50 years ago. A coach has to partition a group of boys between a football and an American "football" teams. He takes them to a forest and tells them to run - these who dodge between the trees go for the football team.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-28 15:02|| 2017-09-28 15:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Russia, Russia, Russia!

STFU

Posted by newc 2017-09-28 22:56|| 2017-09-28 22:56|| Front Page Top

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