Disinformation campaigns against Democratic candidates for 2020

[Copernicus]

Link: ‘Sustained and ongoing’ disinformation assault targets Dem presidential candidates

This seems likely to be a continuation of the Russian asymmetric warfare intended to further undermine the election system in the US and help Republicans maintain control of power.

Recent posts that have received widespread dissemination include racially inflammatory memes and messaging involving Harris, O’Rourke and Warren. In Warren’s case, a false narrative surfaced alleging that a blackface doll appeared on a kitchen cabinet in the background of the senator’s New Year’s Eve Instagram livestream.

Not all of the activity is organized. Much of it appears to be organic, a reflection of the politically polarizing nature of some of the candidates. But there are clear signs of a coordinated effort of undetermined size that shares similar characteristics with the computational propaganda attacks launched by online trolls at Russia’s Internet Research Agency in the 2016 presidential campaign, which special counsel Robert Mueller accused of aiming to undermine the political process and elevate Donald Trump.

A report done for Politico by Guardians.ai, a consortium of data scientists, academics and technologists to disrupt cyberattacks, has linked the attacks to roughly 200 accounts. The tools in question are text mining tools developed by computational linguists.

An analysis conducted for POLITICO by Guardians.ai found evidence that a relatively small cluster of accounts — and a broader group of accounts that amplify them — drove a disproportionate amount of the Twitter conversation about the four candidates over a recent 30-day period.

Using proprietary tools that measured the discussion surrounding the candidates in the Democratic field, Guardians.ai identified a cohort of roughly 200 accounts — including both unwitting real accounts and other “suspicious” and automated accounts that coordinate to spread their messages — that pumped out negative or extreme themes designed to damage the candidates.

This is the same core group of accounts the company first identified last year in a study as anchoring a wide-scale influence campaign in the 2018 elections.

See the linked article for more details.

 

[Elixir]

Link: ‘Sustained and ongoing’ disinformation assault targets Dem presidential candidates

This seems likely to be a continuation of the Russian asymmetric warfare intended to further undermine the election system in the US.

Recent posts that have received widespread dissemination include racially inflammatory memes and messaging involving Harris, O’Rourke and Warren. In Warren’s case, a false narrative surfaced alleging that a blackface doll appeared on a kitchen cabinet in the background of the senator’s New Year’s Eve Instagram livestream.

Not all of the activity is organized. Much of it appears to be organic, a reflection of the politically polarizing nature of some of the candidates. But there are clear signs of a coordinated effort of undetermined size that shares similar characteristics with the computational propaganda attacks launched by online trolls at Russia’s Internet Research Agency in the 2016 presidential campaign, which special counsel Robert Mueller accused of aiming to undermine the political process and elevate Donald Trump.

A report done for Politico by Guardians.ai, a consortium of data scientists, academics and technologists to disrupt cyberattacks, has linked the attacks to roughly 200 accounts. The tools in question are text mining tools developed by computational linguists.

An analysis conducted for POLITICO by Guardians.ai found evidence that a relatively small cluster of accounts — and a broader group of accounts that amplify them — drove a disproportionate amount of the Twitter conversation about the four candidates over a recent 30-day period.

Using proprietary tools that measured the discussion surrounding the candidates in the Democratic field, Guardians.ai identified a cohort of roughly 200 accounts — including both unwitting real accounts and other “suspicious” and automated accounts that coordinate to spread their messages — that pumped out negative or extreme themes designed to damage the candidates.

This is the same core group of accounts the company first identified last year in a study as anchoring a wide-scale influence campaign in the 2018 elections.

See the linked article for more details.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Internet Killed The Political Star
Anonymity went too far

 

[untermensche]

Internet Killed The Political Star
Anonymity went too far

Actually the internet was great when it started.

When it was open and free.

Not it is an advertisement every second. You have to watch a commercial before you can watch something and it is highly regulated and controlled by money.

It is polluted by capitalism as it pollutes and destroys everything over time.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

https://talkfreethought.org/showthread.php?17879-Philosophy-Derail-From-PD

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Internet Killed The Political Star
Anonymity went too far

Actually the internet was great when it started.

When it was open and free.

Not it is an advertisement every second. You have to watch a commercial before you can watch something and it is highly regulated and controlled by money.

It is polluted by capitalism as it pollutes and destroys everything over time.

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[Jimmy Higgins]

Internet Killed The Political Star
Anonymity went too far

Actually the internet was great when it started.

When it was open and free.

Not it is an advertisement every second. You have to watch a commercial before you can watch something and it is highly regulated and controlled by money.

It is polluted by capitalism as it pollutes and destroys everything over time.

This post brought to you by Captain Marvel, where Hero begins with a "Her". In theatres March 7th. Check your local theaters for showtimes.

You won't believe which Marvel Movie Superstar Did This...

 

[untermensche]

Internet Killed The Political Star
Anonymity went too far

Actually the internet was great when it started.

When it was open and free.

Not it is an advertisement every second. You have to watch a commercial before you can watch something and it is highly regulated and controlled by money.

It is polluted by capitalism as it pollutes and destroys everything over time.

This post brought to you by Captain Marvel, where Hero begins with a "Her". In theatres March 7th. Check your local theaters for showtimes.

This post is as if the person cannot read but just posts this randomly.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Trump/Putin 2020! See it clearly!

 

[barbos]

US elected Putin so he returns the favor