By Daniel McAdams
One of the "Russia-linked" ads that threw the election to Trump...
Now nosotros tin come across why they initially tried to proceed a lid on the content of the infamous "Russia-linked" social media advertisements. Today, piece grilling representatives of Google, Facebook, as well as Twitter, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a publish of social media ads they claim were taken out past times "Russia-linked" accounts for the role of interfering inwards the U.S. of A. electoral process.
The ads were supposed to
receive got swayed Americans away from Hillary as well as toward Trump...or undermined our confidence inwards democracy...or...well something bad! But the truth is they were as well as so unusual as well as fifty-fifty funny (see above) that i powerfulness live on led to believe someone is having a giant joke on everyone who is pushing the "Russia meddled" story.
This was a sophisticated Russian performance targeting the American electoral system?
But the absurdity of the claim is unfortunately lost on a few dead-enders, namely a bulk of the U.S. of A. Congress as well as seemingly all of the mainstream U.S. of A. media.
To these 2 groups, the next seemingly-unrelated advertisements taken out on social media were clearly portion of an extraordinarily well-planned as well as successful Russian intelligence performance to massively sway American populace opinion.
As the Washington Post breathlessly reports:
These Facebook ads, similar several others that had emerged inwards intelligence reports over the past times several weeks, had the apparent finish of needling America’s cultural sore spots. ...This is how the Russian authorities got Trump inwards power? Paying for anti-Sharia ads, paying for ads promoting Donald Trump to Donald Trump voters, as well as creating a "Black Lives Matter" back upward page highlighting law brutality inwards dark communities? That's what they did?
Three ads from a grouping called “Stop All Invaders” showed photos of adult woman wearing an Islamic religious head-covering, along amongst calls to activeness to halt the spread of sharia law. “All confront roofing should live on banned inwards every province across America!” read i ad, which had been shared to a greater extent than than 4,300 times as well as drummed upward 14,000 likes alone.
Another Facebook promotion promoted a “Down With Hillary!” rally inwards July 2016 exterior Clinton’s sweat headquarters inwards Brooklyn. The promotion was targeted to Facebook users, xviii to 65 years old, who had declared involvement inwards Donald Trump or Donald Trump Jr. as well as lived inside 25 miles of New York City.
Yet around other promotion targeted the other terminate of the political spectrum amongst the creation of a “Black Matters” community page, mimicking the linguistic communication of the pop Black Lives Matter movement.
Again, Americans should live on laughing at such nonsense. But non Congress. They're hysterical! They've flora the smoking gun!
Sen. Diane Feinstein screeched at the representatives of Google, Twitter, as well as Facebook at the hearing today:
What we’re talking almost is a cataclysmic change. What we’re talking almost is the starting fourth dimension of cyberwarfare. What we’re talking almost is a major unusual powerfulness amongst sophistication as well as powerfulness to involve themselves inwards a presidential election as well as sow conflict as well as discontent all over this country. We are non going to become away, gentlemen. And this is a really large deal.Drilling downwards a trivial farther into the disputation made past times the witnesses at the Intelligence Committee hearing, the claims are that these ads as well as many to a greater extent than similar them were taken out past times "Russia-linked" groups as well as hence should non receive got been allowed. But what just is a "Russia-linked" group? Has it been positively identified as an arm of the Russian authorities or an independent entity funded past times the Russian government? Is it a grouping tied to Russian intelligence? Does it receive got whatever necktie whatsoever to the Russian government?
Twitter's criteria for determining which accounts were "Russia-linked" should heighten around alert bells. According to a prepared statement by Sean J. Edgett Acting General Counsel, Twitter, Inc., the companionship considers a user "Russia-linked" if whatever of the next criteria are met:
(1) the concern human relationship had a Russian e-mail address, mobile number, credit card, or login IP;This is an incredibly sloppy methodology that relies on major linguistic sleight-of-hand. "Russia-linked" tin easily hateful that something has around form of linkage to Russian Federation -- its people, culture, language. In that way, a Russian eating seat inwards New York is "Russia-linked" because it serves Russian food. There is a link. But the way it is beingness used past times those who are obsessed amongst finding Russian authorities meddling inwards the U.S. of A. election is to propose that "Russia-linked" is "Russian government-linked." The 2 things are really dissimilar as well as conflating them is a massive logical fallacy. Would it non audio unusual to refer to all American users of Twitter as "America-linked"? Clearly the implication is that "Russia-linked" users are agents of the Kremlin when inwards fact in that place is null show to back upward such an assertion.
(2) Russian Federation was the declared province on the account; or
(3) Russian linguistic communication or Cyrillic characters appeared inwards the concern human relationship information or name.
How many Twitter users powerfulness insert a flake of Cyrillic text into their concern human relationship information or hollo who receive got cypher whatsoever to create amongst Russia? Who aren't fifty-fifty Russian citizens or residents? Who may genuinely despise Russian Federation or its electrical current government? What almost American concern persons operating inwards Russia? Might they receive got a credit card from a Russian bank? Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Russian cellular telephone number? What almost U.S. of A. central students? What almost European or African or Asian central students or concern persons?
As Moscow-based Irish Gaelic journalist Bryan MacDonald Tweeted:
I receive got a Russian phone, a mail.ru account, a Russian depository fiscal establishment card, my place is Russian Federation & I oft usage Cyrillic. Thus, I am evidently a bot. twitter.com/RealAlexRubi/s…
Google released the results of its investigation into "Security as well as Disinformation inwards the U.S. of A. 2016 Election" as well as the results were similarly underwhelming. On YouTube, it identified xviii suspicious channels that "appeared to live on political" but that " also posted non-political videos, e.g., personal travelogues."
These must receive got been incredibly influential YouTube channels if they helped sway the election.
But no, according to Google:
● These videos generally had very low view counts; only around 3 percent had more than 5,000 views.So the election was manipulated past times xviii YouTube channels of people's move videos (presumably inwards Russia) that didn't target whatever item department of the U.S. of A. population as well as that no i watched. This is show of Sen. Feinstein's "major unusual powerfulness amongst sophistication as well as ability"?
● These channels’ videos were not targeted to the U.S. or to any particular sector of the U.S. population
Why did non i unmarried Member of the Senate Intelligence Committee inquire the witnesses what just "Russia-linked" means? How intelligent is that? Why did non i Senator inquire why Russian Federation would receive got out pro-Trump ads targeting pro-Trump voters? Why did no Senator cast a skeptical oculus on the existent touching on of these supposed influence operations, that inwards fact reached a minuscule fraction of American voters? The respond is that they believe it because they desire to believe it. Washington is literally non able to portion without an enemy to focus on. The entire U.S. of A. political organization is based on threats as well as enemies.
The military-industrial complex is the lubrication of the wheels of authorities as well as without an enemy to generate enormous profits those wheels volition seize up. If the Americans understood how they are beingness played past times the elites, beingness lied to almost the "threats" as well as "enemies" they would rip Washington apart. But if Washington has its way, they volition never know. The "solution" to the work "uncovered" inwards these hearings is for much to a greater extent than censorship inwards the social media. Criticism of U.S. of A. unusual policy volition live on considered subversive as well as probable serving a unusual power. It volition live on crushed -- or to a greater extent than accurately, "disappeared" amongst the assistance of a slight algorithm adjustment. The social media companies declared a willingness to go amongst Congress to arts and crafts novel legislation to preclude whatever "fake news" from getting into their platforms.
Welcome to oblivion.
(BTW does anyone else notice similarities inwards manner betwixt around of these "Russian" ads as well as the every bit bizarre "Innocents of Muslims" cinema trailer on which the Obama Administration falsely -- as well as knowingly falsely -- blamed the assault on a U.S. of A. CIA facility inwards Benghazi, Libya?)
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