2/ The story is short and sweet: Kremlin-oriented Twitter accounts joined in the last minute push to support Roy Moore in the Alabama US Senate race.
3/ We see this in the Top Topics of discussion, the Trending Domains, and the Top URLs.
4/ Looking more closely at the Top URLs/headlines, a significant amount of the amplified content could be interpreted as vaguely anti-Dem.
5/ If that was supposed to either discourage D voters or encourage R voters, it failed.
6/ Note the Sen. Schumer story makes an appearance in the list for Mon/Tues. The site (DailyPostFeed) is a genuine fake-news-for-profit operation, linked to guy in Macedonia.
7/ I assume they picked up the story elsewhere, but they clearly know their target audience
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Following up on a post from earlier in the week, I took another look at well-connected now-arrested Kremlin agent Maria Butina's well-connected Facebook friends. aktivnyye.com/t/20180915-but…
Persistent themes include ties to GRU assets, appearances on the News Front disinfo channel, ties to Dugin and the Eurasian movement, and ties to Kremlin subversion in the West, in addition to ties to people close to Putin.
@page88 Okay, I finally found time to listen to the podcast. As your guest said, it's certainly possible Trump was a CHS, which is pretty much what I say too. So that's validating (for me). But that doesn't get us any closer to knowing if, in fact, people covered for Trump.
My own knowledge and experience with the CHS system is that it can be abused. It would take two agents and perhaps a Special Agent in Charge who at a minimum was willing to not look to closely.
The person at an FBI office most likely to notice something weird would be the accountant, and if Trump as a CHS was not being paid anything, that would take the accountant out of the picture.
Thread: While not exactly news to some of us, this BuzzFeed article adds detail, color, and names to the story
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Russia Secretly Ran News Websites In Eastern Europe buzzfeednews.com/article/holger…
Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John."
"He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him."