| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
real-human
Joined: 02 Jul 2011
Posts: 14890
Location: on earth
|
 Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 12:03 am Post subject: |
 |
|
Russia Behind Manhattan District Attorney Bomb Threats During Trump Hush Money Probe
| Quote: |
Story by Connor Surmonte • 15h ago
Russian email addresses were reportedly behind a series of fake bomb threats sent to the Manhattan district attorney last week in an apparent attempt to stop the hush money probe into Donald Trump, RadarOnline.com has learned.
In a shocking development shortly after it was revealed that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and numerous Manhattan court buildings received bomb threats last week, the FBI confirmed the threats were traced back to a series of Russian email accounts.
The threats, which are now being investigated by the NYPD and FBI, were reportedly emailed to local government officials of the Manhattan community board on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Even more shocking are reports that the hoax bomb threats listed numerous government buildings and public schools as the intended targets of alleged pipe bomb attacks.
"The FBI told me that they appear to be coming from Russia," Susan Stetzer, the district manager of Manhattan Community Board 3, told Law360 on Friday.
Stetzer also confirmed the board received four separate threats between Tuesday and Thursday and each of the four threats came from email addresses using @mail.ru domains.
Meanwhile, the New York Times reported on Friday that Manhattan DA Bragg received an envelope last week that contained a death threat and suspicious white powder.
"ALVIN: I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!" the letter, which was postmarked on Tuesday and originated from Orlando, Florida, reportedly read.
A spokesperson for DA Bragg’s office said the threat “was immediately contained and that the NYPD Emergency Service Unit and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection determined there was no dangerous substance."
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, the bomb and death threats sent to Manhattan last week came shortly after former President Trump escalated his rhetoric regarding the hush money investigation against him and predicted “potential death & destruction” should he be criminally charged in the matter.
Never miss a story — sign up for the RadarOnline.com newsletter to get your daily dose of dope. Daily. Breaking. Celebrity news. All free.
“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?” the embattled ex-president wrote on Truth Social late Thursday night.
“Why & who would do such a thing?” Trump continued. “Only a degenerate psychopath that truely hates the USA!”
Although the Manhattan grand jury did not convene on Wednesday or Thursday to discuss criminal charges against Trump, the panel is expected to reconvene on Monday to weigh a possible indictment against the former president. |
_________________
when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard.
Last edited by real-human on Tue Apr 18, 2023 3:38 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
real-human
Joined: 02 Jul 2011
Posts: 14890
Location: on earth
|
| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2023 1:14 pm Post subject: |
|
|
and more evidence the russians are sill attacking...
three different articles in one day
https://www.rawstory.com/african-peoples-socialist-party/?cx_testId=6&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=4&cx_experienceId=EXC93HV4HK4I#cxrecs_s
Kremlin agents meddled in Florida election with eyes on presidential race: indictment
| Quote: | A federal grand jury charged four U.S. citizens and three Russian nationals with working with Kremlin intelligence services to conduct a multiyear political influence campaign.
The superseding indictment alleges that Russian national Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, founder of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (AGMR), used his organization under the direction of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and three Moscow-based intelligence officers to recruit, fund and direct pro-Kremlin propaganda within the U.S. with the help of four Florida-based activists.
Ionov recruited four St. Petersburg members of the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement, which have been active in civil rights for decades in Florida, and another political group in California to generate support for Russia's annexation of Ukraine and other Kremlin priorities.
The indictment charges APSP chairman and founder Omali Yeshitela, APSP group leader Penny Joanne Hess, APSP member and former St. Petersburg mayoral candidate Jesse Nevel; and APSP leader and Black Hammer founder Augustus C. Romain Jr., also known as Gazi Kodzo.
The video player is currently playing an ad. You can skip the ad in 5 sec with a mouse or keyboard
Skip in 2s
IN OTHER NEWS: Fired Fox News producer says she has new evidence regarding Dominion's $1.6 billion lawsuit
The operation also involved Moscow-based FSB officers Aleksey Borisovich Sukhodolov and Yegor Sergeyevich Popov, who were also charged in the indictment.
Ionov, Sukhodolov and Popov allegedly conspired to secretly fund and "supervise" a local 2019 race in St. Petersburg, which Popov referred to as "our election campaign," hoped that those efforts would extend beyond that cycle and eventually include the U.S. presidential election -- the FSB’s “main topic of the year.”
ADVERTISEMENT
The operation also worked to create the appearance of American popular support for Russia's annexation of Ukraine, which included a video statement from Yeshitela congratulating the Russia-backed breakaway state called Donetsk People’s Republic, and APSP frequently hosted Ionov on video conferences to discuss the Kremlin invasion of Ukraine.
Ionov, Sukhodolov, Popov, Yeshitela, Hess, Nevel and Romain were charged with conspiring to have U.S. citizens act as illegal agents of the Russian government within the U.S. without providing prior notification to the attorney general, as required by law, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison if convicted.
Yeshitela, Hess and Nevel are also charged with acting as agents of Russia within the U.S. without such prior notification, which carries a possible 10-year term if convicted. |
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/world-reacts-to-insane-donald-trump-brittney-griner-news/ar-AA19XcgZ?
World reacts to insane Donald Trump, Brittney Griner news
[quote]This month, Viktor Bout claimed that he wired a telegram to Donald Trump in which he pleaded with the former president to move to Russia for his own protection, claiming that Trump’s “life is in peril.”
“The Biden administration will not stop just by dragging you through the court/prison industrial complex. They would sooner end your life than let you stand in their way,” Bout told Trump in the telegram, according to the Russian state media, via Yahoo! “You will be welcome in Russia. You will have safe haven, and from here you can lead the fight for the American people, the rebellion against globalists, and for the bright future of the planet.”
It’s certainly a wild update, given how much Trump pushed back against freeing Bout in the first place, and people had plenty to say about it on social media.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/how-russian-propaganda-went-from-fringey-social-media-to-fox-news-170538053958?
How Russian propaganda went from fringey social media to Fox News
| Quote: | | Rachel Maddow looks at Wall Street Journal reporting on a pro-Russia social media network run by a former Navy NCO under investigation by the FBI, and how versions of leaked U.S. intelligence documents altered to flatter Russia found their way onto the Fox network. |
.
_________________
when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
real-human
Joined: 02 Jul 2011
Posts: 14890
Location: on earth
|
| Posted: Sat May 13, 2023 1:15 pm Post subject: |
|
|
and now same thing Turkey... very good analogy...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-putin-walked-right-into-an-election-sex-tape-scandal/ar-AA1b7uqh?cvid=abbd88ef2fd54c0dbff6cc6e66af467e&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=4
How Putin Walked Right Into an Election Sex Tape Scandal
| Quote: | ISTANBUL—Turkey’s opposition is accusing Russia of trying to influence Sunday’s elections in order to keep President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in office as several polls suggest he is on the verge of losing power.
Although Erdogan’s ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin have long raised alarm, a sex tape scandal is shaping up to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
Muharrem İnce, a presidential candidate who led the main opposition party in 2018, left the race this week over rumors of an alleged sex tape spread online. The candidate claimed that the tape was a deepfake and said he had gone through a false character assassination.
Soon after, the presidential candidate for Turkey’s opposition, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, accused Russia of spreading deepfakes and conspiracies, including “tapes that were exposed in this country yesterday.”
“Get your hands off the Turkish state,” he wrote in a tweet on Thursday.
Kilicdaroglu told Reuters that he had concrete evidence to back up his statement, but the Kremlin has denied his accusation.
In an interview with the Daily Beast, a parliament member of the second largest party in Kilicdaroglu’s coalition said that—while he didn’t know the alleged evidence that was behind the statement—it was clear that Moscow was “assisting” Erdogan in his bid to stay in power.
“For sure that the Russians are intervening differently in the elections,” said Ahmet Erozan, who helps lead foreign affairs for the Good Party.
Just three days before the election, Reuters reported that Russia was postponing a bill for $600 million in natural gas payments to next year. Erozan, a former ambassador, said the delay in payment was a way for Moscow to contribute to Erdogan’s campaign, adding that there was an “abnormal hike” in trade between the two countries.
The country’s tanking economy is considered the top reason Erdogan may lose, as massive inflation means citizens are being inundated with rising sticker-shock prices for everything from onions to their gas bills.
Erozan said that Turkish-Russian ties had gotten “too personal”—dependent on relations between the two leaders rather than one led by state institutions—and Moscow might have to readjust their approach to Ankara.
“The Russians, they put all the eggs into the basket of Erdogan, all the eggs. Now, after the results of the election, they will come to face the reality,” he said. “Turkey will not be Erdogan’s Turkey.”
Erzoan believed that billions of dollars in the central bank that was of unknown origins was coming from Russia.
Peas in a Pod
A person with close contact to the Turkish government said the Russian president wants Erdogan to win because Putin would face less criticism having a president on the global stage with a similar leadership style and political leanings, such as a lack of respect for press freedom.
“He [Putin] wants more people like him so he doesn't stand out,” they told The Daily Beast. “If they're all bad guys they don't stand out anymore… They’re similar and they survive together.”
The person compared the situation to when Trump was president, stating that Turkey got less attention about rights and freedoms in the country because the criticism was focused on Trump.
“When Trump was in office, it was good for us,” they added.
Hisyar Ozsoy, a MP and deputy chairman with the pro-Kurdish HDP with a focus on foreign affairs, said Erdogan was clearly Putin’s choice for a leader in Turkey. He cited the postponement of gas payments as a top way Russia had helped the Turkish president, which limited the rise in people’s utility bills, as well as sending money to Turkey for the nuclear power plant.
“President Putin wants Erdogan as his partner in Turkey so those were some of the ways he eased pressure on Erdogan before the elections,” he told The Daily Beast.
Putin heaped praise on the Turkish president three weeks before the elections during a ceremony for Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, which was funded by Russia.
Putin said the ceremony and power plant showed how much Erdogan was doing for the country, the economy and “for all Turkish citizens,” Russia’s state news agency TASS reported.
Putin’s on-camera appearance came as Erdogan canceled in-person events over an apparent illness, providing the Turkish president a boost at a time when his strongman image had been dented.
“I think Putin supports Erdogan, and clearly would prefer Erdogan,” Gulru Gezer, a former senior counselor at Turkey’s embassy in Moscow from 2017 to 2020, told The Daily Beast.
She said that Russia has been cautious due to facing speculation of intervening in other countries’ elections.
“I know the Russians are treating this very carefully,” Gezer said.
Gezer said the similar personality traits of Putin and Erdogan—including projecting strength and charisma—have helped them bond, and pointed to their nearly monthly phone calls as an example of an uncommonly close relationship between leaders.
While she stressed that the two countries would have to maintain relations with each other regardless of who wins the election, she said the simple fact that the Russian president has had decades of experience dealing with Erdogan would make it easier to work with him.
“If he doesn’t respect the person he’s sitting with, he doesn’t have closer ties,” Gezer said. “He also has this relationship based on respect with Erdogan because he knows that when Erdogan gives a promise he delivers it.”
Gezer said that Turkey’s downing of a Russian fighter jet that Ankara said had violated its airspace showed the Kremlin that the Turkish government would stand its ground.
Beyond that, Russia easing its financial demands to Turkey has been a big boost for Erdogan.
The dwindling Turkish lira has broken records for its fall against the dollar this year and the official inflation rate was reported at 44 percent in April. But independent economists have said the number is much higher, sometimes reporting double the rate the government gives.
Since Turkey is dependent on foreign imports for its energy, that devalued currency has meant a major increase in utility prices—and a lot of the bills are paid to Russia, which has supplied about 40 percent of Turkey’s natural gas imports. |
_________________
when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
real-human
Joined: 02 Jul 2011
Posts: 14890
Location: on earth
|
| Posted: Mon May 22, 2023 5:36 pm Post subject: |
|
|
trumps and right wingers on this forums hero commie socialist Putin
Did trump beg Putin to get more Hillary documents...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/putin-uses-sanctions-target-trumps-perceived-us-foes-rcna85568?
Putin uses sanctions to target Trump’s perceived U.S. foes
| Quote: |
There’s plenty of precedent for Russia imposing sanctions on prominent Americans who’ve criticized Vladimir Putin’s government. Nearly a decade ago, for example, after Russia took Crimea, the Kremlin faced bipartisan condemnations in Washington, D.C.
Soon after, Moscow announced sanctions against Republicans such as then-House Speaker John Boehner and then-Sen. John McCain, as well as several Democrats, including then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and then-Sen. Mary Landrieu.
None of the officials, it’s worth noting for context, seemed especially bothered. Landrieu even launched a campaign ad bragging about it.
But in each instance, Russia’s sanctions at least made some sense: They targeted prominent American policymakers, each of whom had at least some role in U.S. foreign policy, and each of whom had criticized Moscow’s policies to one degree or another.
Things are different now. The New York Times reported over the weekend that Russia has expanded its list of sanctioned Americans, but this time, Putin is “adopting perceived enemies of former President Donald J. Trump as his own.”
Among the 500 people singled out for travel and financial restrictions on Friday were Americans seen as adversaries by Mr. Trump, including Letitia James, the state attorney general of New York who has sued him for alleged fraud, and Jack Smith, the Justice Department special counsel investigating his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his handling of classified documents after leaving office. Brad Raffensperger, the secretary of state of Georgia who rebuffed Mr. Trump’s pressure to “find” enough votes to reverse the outcome of the election, also made the list.
What do James, Smith, and Raffensperger have to do with U.S. foreign policy? Nothing. What kind of condemnations have they issued in reference to the Kremlin and its policies? As best as I can tell, they’ve hardly said a word.
But Trump doesn’t like them, and for Putin, that’s apparently enough.
Perhaps most amazing of all, Russia also imposed sanctions on Lt. Michael Byrd, whose name might not seem familiar: He’s the Capitol Police officer who shot rioter Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Recommended
MADDOWBLOG
Monday’s Mini-Report, 5.22.23
MADDOWBLOG
Would a focus group believe the radicalism of the GOP’s default plan?
The Times’ report added, The Russian Foreign Ministry offered no specific explanation for why they would be included on the list but did say that among its targets were ‘those in government and law enforcement agencies who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents in the wake of the so-called storming of the Capitol.’”
The use of the phrase “so-called storming,” of course, was unsubtle. The Kremlin isn’t just targeting Trump’s perceived domestic foes, Putin and his government are even embracing Trump’s preferred rhetorical framings about stories the Republican doesn’t like.
It’s tempting to think Moscow sees Trump as some kind of partner, and as the former president tries to reclaim his old White House office, Putin wants to leave little doubt that he would be aligned with a Republican administration.
As for the reactions from those sanctioned, Raffensperger hasn’t yet run any Landrieu-like commercials, but he did seem rather pleased with the developments.
Disclosure: It’s worth noting that among those sanctioned are current and former employees of MSNBC, my employer. In fact, the newest list includes my friend Rachel Maddow, whose show I work for |
_________________
when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
real-human
Joined: 02 Jul 2011
Posts: 14890
Location: on earth
|
| Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2023 4:52 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Duram admits all Russian interference found by life long republican Mueller is true when under oath.
_________________
when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
real-human
Joined: 02 Jul 2011
Posts: 14890
Location: on earth
|
| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2023 10:42 am Post subject: |
|
|
trump probably told the russians where this guy was...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-s-attempted-assassination-of-cia-asset-in-florida-is-straight-out-of-putin-s-wet-deeds-playbook/ar-AA1dfR3b?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=47cd7b940eee49469b7c4caeb5f754a6&ei=22
Russia’s attempted assassination of CIA asset in Florida is straight out of Putin’s 'Wet Deeds' playbook
| Quote: | "Treason is the biggest crime on Earth, and traitors must be punished," said Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Financial Times in June 2019, commenting on the poisoning of a former GRU officer and double agent who spied for Western intelligence Sergei Skripal and his daughter. "I am not saying that it’s necessary to punish in [the] way that was done in Salisbury, added Putin, "not at all. But, nevertheless, traitors must be punished."
Last week, before the airwaves got hit with the whirlwind of bizarre reports of a failed coup in Russia, news broke out about another failed Russian plot, taking place in 2020. The Russians ran a clandestine operation to kill a high-ranking Russian intelligence official, Aleksandr Poteyev, who was living in Miami, Florida, under the protection by the U.S. government as part of a highly secretive program that is designed to keep former spies safe. Poteyev defected here, having given up the names of 11 deep-cover Russian agents who operated in the U.S. and collected valuable intelligence for the Kremlin while posing as regular Americans.
The operation to eliminate Poteyev, ordered by Putin, fell through when a Mexican scientist, Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes, whom the Russians coerced to track down Poteyev, sparked a red flag with security. Fuentes, who wasn’t trained in operational tradecraft, tried to pass through the gate of Poteyev's apartment building in Miami Beach by tailgating another car. Fuentes ultimately got arrested.
This wasn’t the first time that the Russians targeted those who have crossed the Kremlin around the world, including here on U.S. soil. In fact, there’s an entire doctrine, called "Wet Deeds" – the spilling of blood.
The practice dates back to the early days of the Soviet Union. Wet Deeds was the favorite tool of Lenin, Stalin and now Putin to "eliminate" (likvidirovat’) persons perceived as a threat to the regime. Putin renewed the practice of "wet affairs" or "special tasks" by approving a federal law, "On Countering Extreme Activity," in 2002, two and a half years after he assumed the presidency. The law was updated in 2006, authorizing targeted assassinations for "extremist activity," which includes "crimes" such as "diminishing national dignity" and "publicly expressing slander or false accusation of persons who hold Russian government positions."
READ ON THE FOX NEWS APP
These "special tasks" are carried out by Russian military intelligence operatives and include killings, kidnappings, poisonings, "forced suicides" and other acts of intimidation and murder. Throwing a victim out of a window or making the victim jump is a very common tactic, along with staging car explosions and other "tragic accidents."
Prior to 2020, the Russians targeted Kremlin critics on U.S. soil twice. In March 2007, former CIA officer and staffer for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Paul Joyal survived a brutal attack near his home in Maryland. The attackers shot Joyal in the groin four days after he implied during a "Dateline NBC" broadcast that Putin and the Kremlin were responsible for the death of Aleksandr Litvinenko, a former FSB officer and Putin’s vocal critique, in Great Britain. Although the FBI was originally involved in the case, five years after this highly likely murder attempt, the criminals had not been found.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE OPINION NEWSLETTER
In November 2015, Mikhail Lesin, a former Russian media executive and Putin adviser, was found dead in an upscale Washington, D.C., hotel. Lesin’s death happened a day before he was due to be interviewed by the Justice Department about the Kremlin-funded media company, RT, which he had founded. In October 2016, his death was deemed "accidental" by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Washington and the Metropolitan Police Department. But an official at the Chief Medical Examiner’s office revealed that Lesin’s neck bone was fractured in a way that is "commonly associated with hanging or manual strangulation."
On Russian soil, the Kremlin’s hit men conduct "wet deeds" at will. In July 2004, the New York–born Russian-American journalist and the chief editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, Paul Klebnikov, was gunned down with nine bullets on the streets of Moscow late at night. Through his work, Klebnikov exposed the corruption of the Russian oligarchs.
The botched Russian plot in 2020 suggests that perhaps Putin’s assassins are not as highly trained as Stalin’s. Stealthiness used to be the hallmark of the Russian tradecraft involving "special tasks" – the assassins did their job, leaving no trace of foul play. According to a 1993 CIA document, even "in cases where the Soviet hand is obvious, investigation often produces only fragmentary information, due to the KGB ability to camouflage its trail."
Some Americans are not buying the story that the recent armed revolt in Russia was authentic. Here’s a litmus test that would show whether the Russians ran a false-flag operation or whether Putin’s regime is about to collapse. If Prigozhin is indeed a traitor, Putin will hunt him down wherever he may be hiding.
If Prigozhin becomes the target of Putin’s assassination playbook, the coup is real. If Prigozhin and Wagner hitmen open up a second front targeting Ukraine from Belarus, we will know that Team Biden was outplayed by Putin again. |
_________________
when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
real-human
Joined: 02 Jul 2011
Posts: 14890
Location: on earth
|
| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2023 3:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/meta-uncovers-largest-ever-chinese-influence-network/ar-AA1fWUct?cvid=721131d379ff40e9d49762d87f49907c&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=41
Meta Uncovers Largest-Ever Chinese Influence Network
| Quote: |
Meta Platforms said it has taken down the largest known online covert influence operation in the world, a cross-platform campaign that was aimed at advancing China’s interests and discrediting its adversaries including the U.S.
In a report released Tuesday, Meta said the effort was largely unsuccessful despite comprising thousands of accounts across more than 50 apps, including about 7,700 of its own Facebook and Instagram, plus YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Pinterest and X, formerly Twitter. Meta said the operation, known in the security community as “Spamouflage,” dated back to 2019 and was linked to individuals associated with Chinese law enforcement.
Meta said the China network was pushing positive commentary about the country as well as criticism of the U.S. and western foreign policies. It was run by operators dispersed across China, and many of the accounts were detected and disabled by the company’s automated systems. Meta said this likely led to posting on smaller platforms and trying to amplify the content to larger services.
“We have not found evidence of this network getting any substantial engagement among authentic communities on our services,” Meta said.
The Chinese government has broadly denied targeting the U.S. with online influence campaigns or disinformation. Likewise, Russia has previously denied trying to influence U.S. elections.
In a statement, the Chinese embassy in Washington said China opposes the production and spread of false information. It said U.S. social media was “awash with disinformation about China,” but didn’t address Meta’s allegations or actions.
Related video: Meta says it has disrupted a massive disinformation campaign linked to Chinese law enforcement (CNBC)
Morning Joe Meta, the parent company of Facebook,
Current Time 0:12
/
Duration 1:57
0
View on Watch
The Russian embassy in Washington didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Noco Genius1 Battery Charger And Maintainer 1 Amp
Noco Genius1 Battery Charger And Maintainer 1 Amp
Ad
eBay
The takedown was the seventh that Meta said it has removed from China over the past six years. It was also one of several around the globe that Meta said it recently completed, including the disruption of Doppelganger, the largest and most aggressive Russian operation the company has seen. That campaign, which was focused on weakening support for Ukraine by its allies, entailed operators posting links to websites resembling real news outlets and containing pro-Russia narratives. Because those exist off-platform, Meta said they can be difficult to counter.
“Enforcements on each individual platform can only go so far in disrupting these internet-wide campaigns while their websites remain live,” Meta said.
Meta and other social platforms began sharpening their focus on coordinated campaigns intended to sway public opinion after the identification of Russian government interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. A 2019 report from a U.S. Senate committee criticized U.S. tech giants for helping spread disinformation during the 2016 campaign and called for better coordination of efforts to prevent similar activity for future elections.
Covert social-media campaigns are essentially a whack-a-mole problem for platform operators. People seeking to achieve illicit goals through such campaigns are constantly refining their methods to avoid detection, according to security experts.
Some common indicators of malicious activity include posts with spelling and grammar errors and links to unrelated topics. The China network’s posts were so spammy that the operation appeared to be prioritizing volume over audience building, said Ben Nimmo, global threat intelligence lead at Meta.
“It’s throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks,” he said, adding that this raises a question of whether the operators were really trying to influence social-media users or simply earn a paycheck. “Who is the ultimate target—the audience or the guys paying the bills?”
Meta’s latest takedowns come as U.S. relations with China are tense and as the U.S. opposes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In recent months, the White House has confirmed reports of China ramping up its military presence in Cuba, while President Biden called Chinese leader Xi Jinping a dictator. Washington has been preparing measures to curb exports of advanced semiconductors to China and to cut Chinese companies off from U.S. cloud computing platforms.
Write to Sarah E. Needleman at Sarah.Needleman@wsj.com |
_________________
when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
real-human
Joined: 02 Jul 2011
Posts: 14890
Location: on earth
|
| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:01 pm Post subject: |
|
|
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/russian-company-refuses-to-remove-doxxing-info-of-trump-grand-jurors/ar-AA1gouZ9?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=2097fd2755a04796a8355faf839dfbac&ei=29
Russian Company Refuses to Remove Doxxing Info of Trump Grand Jurors
| Quote: | ARussian company doxxed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the grand jurors involved in the 2020 election case against Donald Trump and, according to Atlanta cops, it has refused U.S. federal government orders to remove the information. In a letter attached to a Wednesday filing in which Willis asked the judge to ban the publication of any information identifying jurors, an investigator in her office said that the data was posted to the dark web, and that the website had hosted similar personal reports about other prosecutors and judges. In a second letter, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said he would use “law enforcement resources” to allow the jurors to “complete their civic duty without being subjected to unnecessary danger” but that the Russian-hosted site had ignored demands to remove jurors’ information. The doxxing led to Trump supporters harassing the grand jurors, which Willis argued would hurt their “ability to decide the issues before them impartially and without outside influence.”
|
_________________
when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
real-human
Joined: 02 Jul 2011
Posts: 14890
Location: on earth
|
| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2023 10:25 pm Post subject: |
|
|
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/aggressive-china-tried-influence-2022-midterms-us-intelligence-report-rcna130366
A more aggressive China tried to influence the 2022 midterms, U.S. intelligence report says
| Quote: | China tried to shape the outcome of specific races in the 2022 midterm elections, reflecting a more aggressive approach by Beijing to try to influence American politics and exploit societal divisions, according to a newly released assessment from U.S. intelligence agencies.
The intelligence assessment found that “China tacitly approved efforts to try to influence a handful of midterm races involving members of both US political parties,” hoping to counter certain candidates deemed to be “anti-China” and support others viewed as “pro-China,” the declassified intelligence community report on foreign threats to the 2022 midterm elections said.
Beijing likely sees its information operations in the U.S. as a response “to what they believe is an intensified US effort to promote democracy at China’s expense,” the report said.
Since 2020, Chinese senior leaders gave orders to intensify efforts to influence U.S. policy and public opinion in China’s favor, according to the report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
“We assess that these directives gave PRC (People’s Republic of China) influence actors more freedom to operate ahead of the midterms than the presidential election in 2020, probably because PRC officials believed that Beijing was under less scrutiny during the midterms and because they did not expect the current Administration to retaliate as severely as they feared in 2020,” it said.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday night.
China, Russia and Iran and other governments all undertook efforts to influence the 2022 midterm elections, but there was no sign that foreign adversaries undertook cyberattacks to try to gain access to or tamper with U.S. election infrastructure or ballot counting, the report said.
There has been no sign of a concerted bid to hack into U.S. election networks since 2016, “when Russia almost certainly reconnoitered election networks in all US states and accessed election-related infrastructure in at least two states,” it said.
“We assess that most foreign actors now appear largely focused on amplifying authentic US public narratives to try to influence electoral outcomes, increase mistrust in US election processes, and stoke sociopolitical divisions,” said the report, which was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
“This approach provides deniability as foreign actors propagate US content to try to exploit existing fissures,” the report said.
Unlike China, Russia tried to affect the overall election, aiming to undercut the Democratic Party and political support for Ukraine, the report said.
The intelligence agencies concluded that “the Russian Government and its proxies sought to denigrate the Democratic Party before the midterm elections and undermine confidence in the election, most likely to undermine US support for Ukraine,” the report said, adding that the intelligence community had “high confidence in this assessment.”
“Elements of the Kremlin and its intelligence services conducted extensive research and analysis of US audiences to inform their election-related efforts, including identifying target demographics and the narratives and platforms that they perceived would appeal to these audiences,” according to the report.
Iran’s influence activities focused on trying to “exploit perceived social divisions and undermine confidence in US democratic institutions during this election cycle,” it said, saying the intelligence community had “moderate confidence” in that assessment.
“Tehran’s efforts during the midterms probably in part reflected resource limitations because of competing priorities and the need to manage internal unrest,” the report said.
The level of foreign activity exceeded that of the 2018 midterm elections but was not at the level usually seen in a presidential election year, the report said.
The influence operations involved the covert use of social media accounts and proxy websites, payments to influencers and the use of public relations firms, the report said. |
_________________
when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
real-human
Joined: 02 Jul 2011
Posts: 14890
Location: on earth
|
| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 10:37 am Post subject: |
|
|
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/putin-s-long-term-investment-in-trump-is-about-to-pay-off-financial-times-columnist/ar-BB1hO5Xs?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=d0e1a034d72649d4e9481141e41acec4&ei=7
Putin's 'long term investment' in Trump is about to pay off: Financial Times columnist
| Quote: |
Gideon Rachman, the chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times, has penned a withering column claiming that a second Trump term will make Russian President Vladimir Putin's dreams come true.
Even though Trump has not yet won a second term in office, writes Rachman, he has already inspired Republicans in Congress to block further military aid to Ukraine, which is deeply hurting its ability to defend itself against Russian aggression.
In particular, Rachman takes a critical eye toward Trump's decision to sabotage a bipartisan deal that delivered funding for Ukraine, Israel, and that made significant changes to America's immigration laws.
Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story.
All of this, he argues, is part of Trump's calculation that he can retake the White House by denying Biden any wins.
READ MORE: Can you deprogram your Trump cultist friends and family?
"If the freedom of Ukraine and the security of Europe are collateral damage in Trump’s bid to win back the White House, the former president seems to regard that as a price worth paying," he writes.
Rachman also argues that Russian President Vladimir Putin made a "long-term investment" in Trump when he interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of propelling him to the White House in hopes that he would cause ruptures among allied Western nations.
"Putin has made a long-term bet on Trump," he concludes. "Unless there is a last-minute change of heart in Congress, that wager may finally pay out — on the battlefields of Ukraine." |
_________________
when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
  |
iWindsurf Community Forum Index
-> Politics, Off-Topic, Opinions |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours
Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Next
|
| Page 9 of 10 |
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You cannot download files in this forum
|
|
|
Search
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Register
