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Checked. Democrat cheating confirmed
As Russia’s 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 Russia’s social media operations in the 2016 election that was released this week by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
An internal report on the Alabama effort, obtained by The New York Times, says explicitly that it “experimented with many of the tactics now understood to have influenced the 2016 elections.”
The project’s operators created a Facebook page on which they posed as conservative Alabamians, using it to try to divide Republicans and even to endorse a write-in candidate to draw votes from Mr. Moore. It involved a scheme to link the Moore campaign to thousands of Russian accounts that suddenly began following the Republican candidate on Twitter, a development that drew national media attention.
“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.
Mr. Morgan said in an interview that the Russian botnet ruse “does not ring a bell,” adding that others had worked on the effort and had written the report. He said he saw the project as “a small experiment” designed to explore how certain online tactics worked, not to affect the election.
Mr. Morgan said he could not account for the claims in the report that the project sought to “enrage and energize Democrats” and “depress turnout” among Republicans, partly by emphasizing accusations that Mr. Moore had pursued teenage girls when he was a prosecutor in his 30s.
“The research project was intended to help us understand how these kind of campaigns operated,” said Mr. Morgan. “We thought it was useful to work in the context of a real election but design it to have almost no impact.”
The project had a budget of just $100,000, in a race that cost approximately $51 million, including the primaries, according to Federal Election Commission records.
But however modest, the influence effort in Alabama may be a sign of things to come. Campaign veterans in both parties fear the Russian example may set off a race to the bottom, in which candidates choose social media manipulation because they fear their opponents will.
“Some will do whatever it takes to win,” said Dan Bayens, a Kentucky-based Republican consultant. “You’ve got Russia, which showed folks how to do it, you’ve got consultants willing to engage in this type of behavior and political leaders who apparently find it futile to stop it.”
There is no evidence that Mr. Jones sanctioned or was even aware of the social media project. Joe Trippi, a seasoned Democratic operative who served as a top adviser to the Jones campaign, said he had noticed the Russian bot swarm suddenly following Mr. Moore on Twitter. But he said it was impossible that a $100,000 operation had an impact on the race.
Mr. Trippi said he was nonetheless disturbed by the stealth operation. “I think the big danger is somebody in this cycle uses the dark arts of bots and social networks and it works,” he said. “Then we’re in real trouble.”
Despite its small size, the Alabama project brought together some prominent names in the world of political technology. The funding came from Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn, who has sought to help Democrats catch up with Republicans in their use of online technology.
bump, we will be free if we want to be
The money passed through American Engagement Technologies, run by Mikey Dickerson, the founding director of the United States Digital Service, which was created during the Obama administration to try to upgrade the federal government’s use of technology. Sara K. Hudson, a former Justice Department fellow now with Investing in Us, a tech finance company partly funded by Mr. Hoffman, worked on the project, along with Mr. Morgan.
A close collaborator of Mr. Hoffman, Dmitri Mehlhorn, the founder of Investing in Us, said in a statement that “our purpose in investing in politics and civic engagement is to strengthen American democracy” and that while they do not “micromanage” the projects they fund, they are not aware of having financed projects that have used deception. Mr. Dickerson declined to comment and Ms. Hudson did not respond to queries.
The Alabama project got started as Democrats were coming to grips with the Russians’ weaponizing of social media to undermine the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton and promote Donald J. Trump.
Mr. Morgan reached out at the time to Renée DiResta, who would later join New Knowledge and was lead author of the report on Russian social media operations released this week.
“I know there were people who believed the Democrats needed to fight fire with fire,” Ms. DiResta said, adding that she disagreed. “It was absolutely chatter going around the party.”
But she said Mr. Morgan simply asked her for suggestions of online tactics worth testing. “My understanding was that they were going to investigate to what extent they could grow audiences for Facebook pages using sensational news,” she said.
Mr. Morgan confirmed that the project created a generic page to draw conservative Alabamians — he said he couldn’t remember its name — and that Mac Watson, one of multiple write-in candidates, contacted the page. “But we didn’t do anything on his behalf,” he said.
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The report, however, says the Facebook page agreed to “boost” Mr. Watson’s campaign and stayed in regular touch with him, and was “treated as an advisor and the go-to media contact for the write-in candidate.’’ The report claims the page got him interviews with The Montgomery Advertiser and The Washington Post.
Mr. Watson, who runs a patio supply company in Auburn, Ala., confirmed that he got some assistance from a Facebook page whose operators seemed determined to stay in the shadows.
Of dozens of conservative Alabamian-oriented pages on Facebook that he wrote to, only one replied. “You are in a particularly interesting position and from what we have read of your politics, we would be inclined to endorse you,” the unnamed operator of the page wrote. After Mr. Watson answered a single question about abortion rights as a sort of test, the page offered an endorsement, though no money.
“They never spent one red dime as far as I know on anything I did — they just kind of told their 400 followers, ‘Hey, vote for this guy,’” Mr. Watson said.
Mr. Watson never spoke with the page’s author or authors by phone, and they declined a request for meeting. But he did notice something unusual: his Twitter followers suddenly ballooned from about 100 to about 10,000. The Facebook page’s operators asked Mr. Watson whether he trusted anyone to set up a super PAC that could receive funding and offered advice on how to sharpen his appeal to disenchanted Republican voters.
Shortly before the election, the page sent him a message, wishing him luck.
The report does not say whether the project purchased the Russian bot Twitter accounts that suddenly began to follow Mr. Moore. But it takes credit for “radicalizing Democrats with a Russian bot scandal” and points to stories on the phenomenon in the mainstream media. “Roy Moore flooded with fake Russian Twitter followers,” reported The New York Post.
Auburn here. Literally no one here cares. A couple of bad optics MAGA rednecks made a shitstorm a year ago but this state is honestly weirdly apolitical.
gross that's where she poops
Inside the Moore campaign, officials began to worry about online interference.
“We did have suspicions that something odd was going on,” said Rich Hobson, Mr. Moore’s campaign manager. Mr. Hobson said that although he did not recall any hard evidence of interference, the campaign complained to Facebook about potential chicanery.
“Any and all of these things could make a difference,” Mr. Hobson said. “It’s definitely frustrating, and we still kick ourselves that Judge Moore didn’t win.”
When Election Day came, Mr. Jones became the first Alabama Democrat elected to the Senate in a quarter of a century, defeating Mr. Moore by 21,924 votes in a race that drew more than 22,800 write-in votes. More than 1.3 million ballots were cast over all.
Many of the write-in votes went to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Condoleezza Rice — an Alabama native and former secretary of state — certain popular football coaches and Jesus Christ. Mr. Watson drew just a few hundred votes.
Mr. Watson noticed one other oddity. The day after the vote, the Facebook page that had taken such an interest in him had vanished.
“It was a group that, like, honest to God, next day was gone,” said Mr. Watson.
“It was weird,” he said. “The whole thing was weird.”
fine jeez
I used to find threads like these interesting. But then I realized our president is a faggot kike puppet and a cuck so who cares. Nothing will get done.
>made a shitstorm a year ago
This is breaking news, faggot.
welcum to the new age yung monks
War Eagle
Why would this even be wrong? You all were defending Russia in 2016.
>its just memes!
>free speech lol
>Russia did nothing wrong
Now when we do it, you must follow the same logic.
OH NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
lookup limited hangout fagholio, what is op implying
>too small to have a significant effect, goy
>just like the illegal voting we kept telling you didn't happen at all
and NOTHING will happen. Let's just have our civil war already for fuckssake.
>JUST A RESEARCH EXPERIMENT LOL
>TOO SMALL TO MAKE AN IMPACT LOL
>IT'S OK WHEN WE DO IT LOL
When do these motherfuckers hang?
Nothing will happen. We live in a totally corrupt state with the media spinning this as though it’s nothing because muh Russia.
Go start a hobby and accept the cabal’s rule over you OP.
>Experimented in Russian Tactics
>It had no effect on the election
>invent Russian meddling lie
>use lie as a justification to commit future fraud and crimes
I'd love to rip your throat out and throat fuck your bloody neck.
wow someone who should actually get banned from twitter.
Wait so would this confirm the theory that Bannon was running Moore as a study to catch the Uniparty cheating in elections ?
>Russians supposedly spending $4,000 on Facebook ads in 2016 is a massive crisis
>Democrats actually spending $100,000 to pretend to be Russians on Twitter in 2017 isn't
IT'S FINE WHEN WE DO IT THOUGH LOL
Guys! It's ok, it was just a "study", totally academic. That makes it ok, duh.
>accuse everyone else of what youre already guilty of
>flood popular media outlets with misinformation so public stays confused and worn out from having to sort through constant influx of spam
>continue accusing everyone else of what youre already guilty of
It's a demoralization tactic to keep people from trusting anyone else. They don't care if Trump supporters don't trust the news as long as normies don't trust the "alt right conspiracies from dark web intellectuals"
DAMN! THICK and JUICY.
Let there be nudes of her!
Wow. This country is fucked.
>admitting to a false flag
heads need to roll
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>When Election Day came, Mr. Jones became the first Alabama Democrat elected to the Senate in a quarter of a century, defeating Mr. Moore by 21,924 votes in a race that drew more than 22,800 write-in votes. More than 1.3 million ballots were cast over all.
I remember when the Austrian general election had to be redone over a margin that thin when related irregularities were reported.
But SHUT UP IT'S JUST A STUDY
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im too tired to read all that shit
give me a TLDR
FAKE NEWS
>paying $100,000 for an "experiment" to "understand" the alleged Russian election interference
>This attempt at "understanding" involves a coordinated effort to undermine a Republican's campaign for Senate
Hmmm... how likely is that?
Democrat sympathizers (including a LinkedIn co-founder) did to Roy Moore what Russia allegedly did to Hillary Clinton. They claim it was a "small-scale experiment" to the tune of $100,000. It included creating thousands of fake Russian bot accounts to follow Roy Moore (which garnered national media attention) and amplifying the message that he had sex with underage girls.
Seriously they should go to jail for being stupid enough to admit this
At the very least, it's ample grounds for a lawsuit.
Almost parallels what the DNC and Team Clinton tried on Team Trump... (((muh Russia)))... hmmm, foreshadowing..?
>Democrats admitting they could have done what they are accusing Russia of doing
Get those machine humming, boyz......
From Wikileaks
>pic related
What the fuck
>exact same tactics as the "russians"
in addition to being horribly corrupt and conniving, these people are just such faggots
and who wants to bet that nothing will be done huh?
>it was impossible that a $100,000 operation had an impact
gas the kikes race war now
ITS OK WHEN DEMOCRATS DO IT
FUCKING REMEMBER THIS
NEVER EVER EVER STOP BEING ANGRY
THESE FAGGOTS DESERVE TO BURN
It's not real, not from wikileaks. Fake.
It's insane how they're describing it as "doing the same thing the Russians did" when in reality they just ran a psyop to pretend and draw attention to the "Russians".
The Dems did the exact same thing here that they did in 2016.
I think Mr. Zuckerberg needs to give some more testimony.
>We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation
Best of all, their method was literally running a false flag campaign so they could accuse the opponent of using Russian bots, their words..
this is seeding the release of the election fraud investigation on the 22nd
>used more money than the "Russians"
>oops it failed
>'ummm guys, it was a social experiment, honest!!'
When did it even become an issue to sway people's opinion if the information is true? The media moguls and campaigners have spent years trying to perfect the method to sway votes.
Has a familiar ring to it.
>The secret project, carried out on Facebook and Twitter, was likely too small to have a significant effect on the race
Hmm I wonder if the NYT ever mentions that when it comes to supposed Russians buying a few thousand dollars worth of Facebook ads.
>“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.
OY VEY! That might destroy the whole narrative!
This needs to be saved and remembered.
Think about what they just admitted to.
Agreed, this can't go down the memory hole.
No one is saying it's ok, only saying that nothing will happen because NOTHING WILL HAPPEN! We're fucked, this country is corrupt from top to bottom.
Bump. This is big news.
So we finally know what (((they))) mean when they say Russian tactics. Deploy friendly and con-foe sockpuppet accounts, divide and conquer foe, energize friendlies and signal amplification.
The NYT wrote this to sound like pearl clutching. It's not. It's a suggestion to their team.
More reason to hate that conniving nigger, Obama.
I wonder why they outed themselves on this? Trump will be all over it in the morning. Is this the libs trying to play 4D chess to get a reaction out of Trump? I can't imagine the average American is ok with some Billionaire butt boys fucking with elections in the Deep South.
>worked on the project, along with Mr. Morgan.
>Mr. Morgan reached out at the time to Renée DiResta, who would later join New Knowledge and was lead author of the report on Russian social media operations released this week.
So, the people who performed this 'experiment' know the people who are release a report about 'Russian social media operations' and further have ties the the DOJ.
>Sara K. Hudson, a former Justice Department fellow now with Investing in Us
Meanwhile the shills of the global media start publishing articles like the below:
www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/chilling-memes-russian-trolls-spread-through-us-to-build-trump-support/news-story/9b2306c9be46dfa305c583c761f0a10c
>Sara K. Hudson, a former Justice Department fellow now with Investing in Us
Hate replying to myself, but gonna make an exception here. Anyone have access to LinkedIn?
>(including a LinkedIn co-founder)
fucking knew that shit was pozzi bs when i first saw that shit
That article also cites people in posts above (especially members of the New Knowledge cabal) who are pushing this idea of Russian hackers, while minimising publicisation of details of the Democrats doing the same thing.
Go forth and gather all the media releases worldwide so we can compile them here and work backwards to their points of origin.
Pic related: posted on this topic this earlier and got slid right off the catalog in about 10 minutes.
CHILLING!
DISTURBING!
FRIGHTENING!
>“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
So they call publishing lies "a false flag" and admit to it? Am I reading this correctly?
Lol at least u got ur toys right amerimutts, lmao
>Yahoo! and other media outlets
I wonder how common it is for former DOJ employees to have these kind of ties.
Damn this is being slid. We need exact dollar figures. How much are the Russians accused of spending. This article says these groups put $100,000 into it. We need the voter breakdown on how much the Russians spent per vote compared to these Techno-Dems.
washingtonpost.com
This article says for the Presidential election the Russians speant a total of $95,000 on normiebook ads. That's probably an incomplete figure, though.
Read "Brave New World", the people don't want to be free, the people want to have fun. When they watch "The Matrix", those insurgents fighting the machines are the bad guys to them.
Trump ordered to kill 200 Russian mercenaries with aviation and artillery. Introduced new sanctions. Don't even give a hand to Putin. Who the fuck still believe Russian conspiracy theories?
can you explain? heard of limited hangouts before but had trouble understanding what it meant
Why do I get the impression "Collective Soul concert" is code for something? No way George Soros is into 90's alternative music.
Very next line
>That isn't code or anything, don't bother looking for the corresponding code
WTF
>So they call publishing lies "a false flag" and admit to it? Am I reading this correctly?
Yep. I'm shocked they're being this blatant about it.
These people will not face any punishment unless we deliver it ourselves.
>inb4 glownigger
okay jew, I smell your fear.
the point of this article isn't to reveal anything about democrats but to get you to agree that what the russians "did" mattered
Spare not a single fucking liberal, holy shit.
You're not wrong.