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December 20, 2018
Secret Experiment in Alabama Senate Race Imitated Russian Tactics
Secret Experiment in Alabama Senate Race Imitated Russian Tactics
As Russias online election machinations came to light last year, a group of Democratic tech experts decided to try out similarly deceptive tactics in the fiercely contested Alabama Senate race, according to people familiar with the effort and a report on its results.
The secret project, carried out on Facebook and Twitter, was likely too small to have a significant effect on the race, in which the Democratic candidate it was designed to help, Doug Jones, edged out the Republican, Roy S. Moore. But it was a sign that American political operatives of both parties have paid close attention to the Russian methods, which some fear may come to taint elections in the United States.
One participant in the Alabama project, Jonathon Morgan, is the chief executive of New Knowledge, a small cyber security firm that wrote a scathing account of Russias social media operations in the 2016 election that was released this week by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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We orchestrated an elaborate false flag operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet, the report says.
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jones-russia.html
As Russias online election machinations came to light last year, a group of Democratic tech experts decided to try out similarly deceptive tactics in the fiercely contested Alabama Senate race, according to people familiar with the effort and a report on its results.
The secret project, carried out on Facebook and Twitter, was likely too small to have a significant effect on the race, in which the Democratic candidate it was designed to help, Doug Jones, edged out the Republican, Roy S. Moore. But it was a sign that American political operatives of both parties have paid close attention to the Russian methods, which some fear may come to taint elections in the United States.
One participant in the Alabama project, Jonathon Morgan, is the chief executive of New Knowledge, a small cyber security firm that wrote a scathing account of Russias social media operations in the 2016 election that was released this week by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
... snip
We orchestrated an elaborate false flag operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet, the report says.
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jones-russia.html
December 18, 2018
Flynn sentencing live blogging: SULLIVAN WARNS FLYNN OF A PRISON SENTENCE, asks about treason...
SULLIVAN WARNS FLYNN OF A PRISON SENTENCE: "You were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the National Security Adviser to the president! "Arguably, this undermines everything this flag over here stands for! Arguably, you sold your country out!
https://twitter.com/stevenportnoy/status/1075072332853624844
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