The Kremlin-backed troll farm at the center of Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election has quietly suffered a catastrophic security breach, The Daily Beast has confirmed, in a leak that spilled new details of its operations onto obscure corners of the internet.
The Russian “information exchange” Joker.Buzz, which auctions off often stolen or confidential information, advertised a leak for a large cache of the Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) internal documents. It includes names of Americans, activists in particular, whom the organization specifically targeted; American-based proxies used to access Reddit and the viral meme site 9Gag; and login information for troll farm accounts.
Even the advertisement for the document dump provides a trove of previously unknown information about the breadth of Russia’s disinformation effort in the United States, including rallies pushed by IRA social media accounts that turned violent.
What the Daily Beast was able to confirm:
While the date of the auction could not be independently confirmed, the authenticity of the leak can. The leaked documents list screen names connected to a number of American citizens who were used as unwitting proxies by the Russians. The Daily Beast was able to track down four of those citizens, whose names have not been previously revealed. The leak contains precise dates in 2016 in which the IRA-created account Blacktivist reached out to those U.S. citizens, plus a short description of the conversations. The Daily Beast spoke to those citizens, and confirmed they interacted with the Blacktivist account in the ways described by the IRA in the document. In one case, the American even provided screenshots of his interactions with the Russian troll trying to dupe him.
In short, the leaked document contains details of the Russian disinformation campaign that have not been previously made public—details which The Daily Beast was able to confirm.
The leak shows that even as the Russian trolls were able to influence and manipulate American political discourse online, they were less equipped to keep their own secrets. While The Daily Beast does not possess anything close to a comprehensive trove of the IRA’s internal operations, it is now likely that substantial amounts of the troll farm’s files are waiting to be discovered online.
This data treasure trove also reveals how the troll farm utilized social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, and even Tumblr to spread their divisive propaganda and promote the Donald Trump campaign.
It is also more proof that the investigations in Russian interference is not a "witch hunt" but rather a very important, and necessary step in protecting ourselves from future manipulation and interference.
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DeleteG.U.N. Yawn. Stretch. Fart.
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ps. humanity is way safer than you know. wait for it.
More reason to impeach the jerk in the white house! He did not win the race legally! Hillary Clinton should be POTUS and would have been so much better for our country.
ReplyDeleteTrump needs to be in jail w/the rest of his family/mobsters!
Military expert explains what Putin is doing with his arms build-up — and it will scare the hell out of you
ReplyDelete...“Vladimir Putin made a presentation, touting his country’s weapons capability, saying they’re able to evade U.S. defenses,” Witt began. “One animation showed warheads raining down on Florida. When you look at this animation, where does the truth lie in this? Is Putin able to evade U.S. defenses? Could he be able to send missiles to Florida?”
“One thing that’s drawn attention is he shows missiles coming over the United States not over the North Pole, but over the South Pole,” Baron explained. “Nuclear experts tell us America’s missile defenses are aimed to the north, up in Alaska and only a few in California. So if he gets this new technology and rolls it out, these are longer range missiles and they’re able to steer themselves in flight, which makes them not just ballistic, but cruise missiles.”
“It all adds up to Putin saying if we’re going to go there, we’re going to go there, he’s coming out guns a’blazing,” he continued.
Asked if Putin is bluffing, Baron said there was more to be concerned about.
“He’s saying that these are things that the Russians are developing, including an underwater drone that can be launched from a submarine carrying an under-sea nuclear weapon, he responded before getting to the meat of the matter. “The point why this is so important is, we haven’t heard this kind of thing, really, since the Cold War. This is the opposite of reduction, it’s the opposite of a new start and any kind of arms control.”
“And Putin says it’s his response to Trump,” he warned. “Trump, in the campaign, said if he wants an arms race, let there be an arms race.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/military-expert-explains-putin-arms-build-will-scare-hell/
Sounds like team 6 is on the way. Putin will be the next target. Citizens of communist LIDDLE DICKtators are screaming for help. They want freedom and rights as any human on the planet does. United Nations should be knocking on the doors in Russia very soon.
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DeleteMRAP$"In 2011, the congressionally mandated Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan reported that contractors had cheated the Pentagon out of $31 billion since 2001" From mid-2005 to mid-2006, roadside bombs and other improvised explosive devices killed around 40 Americans per month in Iraq. Starting in 2006, the Defense Department spent $50 billion buying no fewer than 24,000 up-armored vehicles."
dick FUCK cheney...
Listened to Maher, it is refreshing to hear articulate, intelligent people speak, Maher, Holder, Meacham, as opposed to the idiot living in my White House and his "genius" wife. Gives me some hope that USA will survive, wounded, but survive. Regarding your last post, many years ago the ex wanted me to go to one of Billy Graham's meetings, father-in-law said as we went out the door, "hold on to your wallet". I soon learned at the meeting what he was talking about, never forgot, apply to all prosperity preachers since.
ReplyDelete"“Putin is presiding over a disaster in Russia,” he said. “Their economy is smaller than that of California, their strategic armed forces are a wreck, particularly naval and air power. BAout the only thing they make are oil and natural gas, and the price of that is way down because of U.S. production… He’s in trouble.”
ReplyDeleteMcCaffrey went on to discuss the fact that National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster appeared to be headed out of the White House. This will be an unfortunate development, he said, as McMaster “a defense intellectual,” and “one of the best tactical generals we’ve ever seen.”"
"“They’ve got another one, Josh Bolton, a former U.N. ambassador from the United States, who will make Steve Bannon look like Nancy Pelosi,” "
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ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/richard-spencers-lawyer-resigns-right-wing-board-getting-busted-also-white-nationalist/
"n light of the recent relentless and unjustifiable vilification of me, as well as the mischaracterizations of who I am as a person, I have unilaterally made the decision to provide this clarification and to withdraw from politics,” "
"“I defend the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and do so unapologetically,” he wrote in an email to the paper. “There are justices on the U.S. Supreme Court who rule as I would if I was there — there is nothing exotic about being right-wing.”
Bristow criticized the media for “vilifying” him and distanced himself from his previous remarks.
“In recent weeks, journalists have published horrifically disparaging articles about me which contain acerbic, offensive, juvenile and regrettable statements I mostly made over a decade ago while I was in college and a prominent and staunchly conservative activist,”"RiiiggghhhttT!
More hacking and corruption in the Trump administration:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/leaked-emails-appear-show-top-233911327.html
"Emails and documents an anonymous group leaked to HuffPost this week appear to show a Los Angeles lawyer asking for more than $80 million to scuttle a Department of Justice investigation into a multibillion-dollar scandal involving Van Gogh paintings, the movie “The Wolf of Wall Street,” the prime minister of Malaysia — and the lawyer’s husband, a Republican National Committee deputy finance chair Elliott Broidy, trying to use his influence with the Trump administration to help."
"Although Broidy pleaded guilty in 2009 to giving New York public pension officials nearly $1 million worth of illegal gifts to help his venture capital firm make a deal with the pension fund, it’s easy to see how Low could have benefited from working with the couple. Broidy has close ties to Trump and the Republican Party. During the 2016 presidential race, he served as a vice chairman for the Trump Victory Fund. He gave more than $160,000 to the Republican National Committee last year. One month after Rosenzweig wrote the draft agreement with Low, the RNC announced that Broidy had been named a national deputy finance chairman, along with Michael Cohen and Louis DeJoy."
Gee, all these criminals seem to have ties to Trump.
Rick Gates, Tillerson, Trump, Rachel Brand, John Demers.
"A representative for Broidy and Rosenzweig told HuffPost that neither of them wrote the text in the emails describing interactions with Trump and Justice Department officials. Chris Clark, the couple’s lawyer, told The Wall Street Journal that the couple did not discuss Low’s case with Trump, his staff or anyone at the Justice Department. The Justice Department declined to comment and the White House did not respond to a request for comment.
The investigation into 1MDB — and Low — continues. Just this week, at the request of U.S. authorities, Indonesian police seized a luxury yacht in Bali tied to the scandal."
Geez, the slime just keeps spreading. All over the world. Are Trump's worldwide vast business interests nothing but a YUUUGE crime syndicate? Did the Deplorables elect a crime boss?
President Mobster?
oH Please...
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On the count of three- 1 2 3 AWWWWWWWW shucky darn!
ReplyDelete"“He’s saying that these are things that the Russians are developing, including an underwater drone that can be launched from a submarine carrying an under-sea nuclear weapon, he responded before getting to the meat of the matter. “The point why this is so important is, we haven’t heard this kind of thing, really, since the Cold War. This is the opposite of reduction, it’s the opposite of a new start and any kind of arms control.”
ReplyDelete“And Putin says it’s his response to Trump,” he warned. “Trump, in the campaign, said if he wants an arms race, let there be an arms.”
“The United States and Russia have each about 1500 to 1800 warheads, hundreds of ways to deliver those warheads by submarines, bombers and missiles,” he added. “This goes beyond current restrictions and, according to Putin, he’s just trying to defend their interests."
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/military-expert-explains-putin-arms-build-will-scare-hell/
Russia is being run by thugs & thieves.
ReplyDeleteHas been going on a century, seems to be OK?
I guess when they want it to stop, they will!
Must be why Putin sweats Saddam's fate! Smile.
This End is what pooty fears.
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'Gaddafi Beaten To Death Unedited'
POOty>He watches ~IT~over and over and over...
yeah. answer is closer than you all think. but attitudes are hardass and kickass is the mode of operation now. :/
Deleteno one likes thieves or liars
"North Korea made $200 million over nine months through illicit trade—with the country’s coal being shipped through Russia in several instances—according to a UN report obtained by NBC News."
ReplyDeleteMelania just needs bigger boobs.
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