Federal investigators are examining whether far-right news sites played any role last year in a Russian cyber operation that dramatically widened the reach of news stories — some fictional — that favored Donald Trump’s presidential bid, two people familiar with the inquiry say.
Operatives for Russia appear to have strategically timed the computer commands, known as “bots,” to blitz social media with links to the pro-Trump stories at times when the billionaire businessman was on the defensive in his race against Democrat Hillary Clinton, these sources said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is accused by the FBI of ordering a campaign intended to influence the U.S. election. Russian President Vladimir Putin is accused by the FBI of ordering a campaign intended to influence the U.S. election. Mikhail Klimentyev AP The bots’ end products were largely millions of Twitter and Facebook posts carrying links to stories on conservative internet sites such as Breitbart News and InfoWars, as well as on the Kremlin-backed RT News and Sputnik News, the sources said. Some of the stories were false or mixed fact and fiction, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the bot attacks are part of an FBI-led investigation into a multifaceted Russian operation to influence last year’s elections.
Investigators examining the bot attacks are exploring whether the far-right news operations took any actions to assist Russia’s operatives. Their participation, however, wasn’t necessary for the bots to amplify their news through Twitter and Facebook.
This is the cover story for why Alex Jones, Donald Trump, and everyone else are in that domestic surveillance database we wrote about yesterday. The government thought they were traitors, hired by Putin as agents and working to rig our election for the Kremlin. And don’t ignore that this is official FBI policy – what the relatively by-the-book law enforcement guys are doing. What do you think the darker agencies with no LE purview are doing?
Notice, this would never happen to leftist websites under a leftist administration. No government agency was going to announce that the Huffington Post was believed to be a traitorous agent of the EU, trying to influence an election and get Obama elected so the US would accept more migrants. Obama would never have allowed it. But now our side has the Presidency, and the machine is openly acting like we are the enemies of the state, and the patriots are the people who want to import tons of third-world rapists and murderers, while devastating our national defense.
Our government has forked. There is the openly acknowledged government of the Constitution, with all of its rules, regulations and laws, and then there is the shadow government which rolls under the radar, and does what it wants. Periodically the forks end up on the same lines when leftists control the open government as well as the shadow side, but the shadow government is run by the rabbits constantly – at least until Trump manages to repopulate it with his people.
This excuse is the machine covering its ass for eight years of aggressively targeting the online right. Either the government thinks we are all Russian deep cover spies, targeting America for destruction on behalf of our comrades in Moscow, or they are full of shit and scrambling to explain something that is about to come out. It is interesting, because I never thought anything about our targeting would ever become public, but it seems as if the machine is now laying the groundwork to explain what exactly the reasons were for its interest in the online right.
Interesting times already, and the Apocalypse hasn’t even hit yet.
Tell everyone about r/K Theory, before the Deep State silences you
The shadow government is actively committing treason- selling any secret China wants and letting in any muslims that want to come in. But if you are White, and you’ve even seen a Russian once pucker up for queuing and losing your rights. One rule for thee, one rule for me.
No one could possibly have independently formed an opinion that Hillary wasn’t the absolute bestest candidate ever, and that they favored President Trump. Nope, Hillary would have gotten 105% of the vote (accounting for the dead) if not for those pesky Russians.
[…] FBI Investigates Online Right For Russia Ties […]
Finally, we can relax. It was only Russian Bots which flew the Clintons to Epstein’s rape island, Russian Bots which helped Silsby traffick Haiti children, Russian Bots which invited the Podestas to satanic dinner rituals and bought the Podestas all that art about cannibalism and pedo-torture, Russian Bots which took and uploaded all those ghoulishly creepy photos to Alefantis & friends’ Instagram accounts. Whew. Nothing to see here.
p.s. When do you recommend that children should be introduced to the idea of r/K? Should they be spared the awful truth about this evil world until adolescence? Or should there be children’s books with r/K-themed nursery rhymes?
I am a big fan of traditional Japanese martial arts for young kids, though I have heard Kung Fu is as good.
I would save r/K for after ten or eleven, but I would let the kid’s interest drive exposure. They should be fond of firearms, and angry the left wants to take them away before exposure. r/K on top of marital arts and guns will make a young K solidify his path. Earlier than that might make them feel bored by it, and associate it with boredom. They’ll focus more if they see it answering questions they have been noticing at some level.
The projection… and irony, is just too much!
I saw somewhere the question of “why would Obama wiretap Trump?” I did my usual, and flipped it to “why wouldn’t Obama order it?” At the time, Hillary was a shoo-in. No one was going to find out for at least 8 years. And if they found out in 2024, who cares? It’s been two terms, if the president is a Republican it’s someone who hated Trump, and Trump’s now known as that novelty candidate who ran a hilariously bad campaign and became the new Ross Perot punchline.
There was no foreseeable downside to Obama at the time. It was just a flippant way to run up the score without any repercussions. Again, why wouldn’t he have done it? It was fun, and there was no cost. It was r-selection heaven.
Very true.
Going on four years now I’ve been waiting for the *reason* for Snowden doc spy programs and more recently the Vault 7 parallel SIGINT program run by the CIA to be revealed, either by a whistle blower or via a hack. I knew it would be difficult, but I really thought the desire to excise the cancer would win out. It has not. The only reason for mass surveillance on the scale practiced by the US nat sec state is the creation and operation of massive informant networks. We still await the sort of awakening East Germany experienced when the extent of Stasi informant networks was made clear following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Until then we must assume that every judge is compromised and controlled, as well as key members of the legislative and executive branch.
Yep.
Can’t speak for anyone else, but if Putin was handing out checks for opposing Clinton then I missed out. Darn!
Weaseling hath its rewards: “The most powerful man in Washington”.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-22/comey-is-now-the-most-powerful-person-in-washington
A long-time co-conspirator:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/60qp40/comey_and_the_clintons_go_way_back_how_about_trey/