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Showing Original Post only (View all)Was DU also inundated with Fake Russian bots and Fake news during elections? [View all]
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As you all know Rachel Maddow described Putin's assault on the elections entailed fake bots and fake news, disseminated at an industrial level.
Was this a problem here? Is it still happening? What can be done about it? Was the DU election hacking ever solved?
Edit: What about Cambridge Analytica? They probably had a hand in this too.
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Was DU also inundated with Fake Russian bots and Fake news during elections? [View all]
Madam45for2923
Mar 2017
OP
The intelligence agencies knew we had been hacked and by who, nearly immediately.
DK504
Mar 2017
#19
It's not just newer members-I have seen some weird posts that I would have to describe as
58Sunliner
Mar 2017
#132
Hi Cha! Thank you, Cha! We ought to decimate all Russian bots! & their crap news.
Madam45for2923
Mar 2017
#11
But now it is out in the open! even on Rachel Maddow's show. Heck it's part of the investigations.
Madam45for2923
Mar 2017
#57
Yes! That was very freaking suspicious! Like they did not want us to compare notes
Madam45for2923
Mar 2017
#10
OMG! Fake reproduces fake like bunnies! Becomes a claustrophobic vicious circle.
Madam45for2923
Mar 2017
#34
From what Rachel Maddow said it was targeted against HRC from the start.
Madam45for2923
Mar 2017
#15
Including hyperbolic anti-Sanders posters purporting to be Hillary supporters to poison the air.
Zen Democrat
Mar 2017
#118
I think there are automatic bots but also people who act like they are American but are not...
Madam45for2923
Mar 2017
#21
Thanks - yes, there needs to be digging into CA. A big outfit funded by the nasties. EOM
elfin
Mar 2017
#28
on Twitter some are automated to spit out responses anytime they see a certain word or name. Some
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#29
Some had a very pro-Russian history and many pushed the Russian meme that HRC was a hawk who would
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#45
From what I recall sanders was fairly vague and perhaps more of an isolationist on foreign policy-
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#73
"Bots" (in this sense) refers to computer programs that are "smart" like "Siri" in an iphone
ColemanMaskell
Mar 2017
#35
Thanks for more elucidation. It sounds like that some bot programs are better than others
elfin
Mar 2017
#47
Here are links to a couple of "how to recognize a bot" articles, if you still want to know that
ColemanMaskell
Mar 2017
#71
Bots are more of a twitter thing, where you can repeatedly post the same thing over and over...
PoliticAverse
Mar 2017
#128
There are shills and there are bots. The terms are now interchangeable, but I wish they were not.
Turn CO Blue
Mar 2017
#134
Yes I saw RT here- people argued they had Ed Schultz and other "credible" people on RT
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#38
Absolutely and they are still here. Their design, to create moods, reveals en masse. (n/t)
FreepFryer
Mar 2017
#27
Had to be "bots". Repeatedly demanding transcripts from her Walstreet speeches, and now we've got..
Tarheel_Dem
Mar 2017
#31
Sounds like this illogical mendacity was meant to frustrate us - & plainly hurt HRC like Comey said/
Madam45for2923
Mar 2017
#42
Is there agreement whether the fake-posting was pro Sanders or pro-Clinton? /nt
philly_bob
Mar 2017
#41
by women and POC who noticed that his website and stump speech completely ignored us.
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#64
YES !!! As soon as you hit them with 3 - 4 facts they'd bow out with a waving hand !!!!
uponit7771
Mar 2017
#52
This is a DEM site. We have no place for malicious & fake bots and trolls that want to hurt DEMS!
Madam45for2923
Mar 2017
#78
No, because bots are nets of automatic replies, that acheive their effect through numbers
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2017
#90
Weren't there lots of fake news type being promoted here? Some from Russian sites?
Madam45for2923
Mar 2017
#103
Yes it was...it drove DU members, but had no influence in the outside world.
brooklynite
Mar 2017
#136
YouTube became and still is worthless in this regard. A disgusting infestation of fakes!
Madam45for2923
Mar 2017
#117
Did they ever find out who hacked DU and brought it down on election day?
redstatebluegirl
Mar 2017
#109
Makes sense! The Russian and Breitbart garbage news made it & was promoted here.
Madam45for2923
Mar 2017
#119
Since we know what happened this election I hope we can protect ourselves from now on.
Madam45for2923
Mar 2017
#120
DU doesn't lend itself to a bot invasion, that's something that twitter is much more susceptible to.
PoliticAverse
Mar 2017
#127