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Twitter to tell 677,775 people they interacted with Kremlin-linked trolls

I can't help but think this will backfire more than be a moment of education and reflection.

It would be interesting to see a breakdown of topics addressed by these accounts, but I can see that being hard to quantify. 700 accounts contained pro white nationalist tweets, 200 accounts tweeted to foster anti-hillary sentiment in bernie supporters, 2300 accounts tweet pro-trump, 500 accounts tweeted to agitate BLM supporters... something along those lines to see where and to what degree they focused their energy and played different sides against each other.
 
Only worth a shit if accounts that followed/retweeted Russian troll accounts are marked as such. Otherwise, it's right-wing cognitive dissonance and projection to the rescue. As always.
 
This is not going to go over well with a lot of Trump tweeter 'peaters.

Meh, who am I kidding. They'll ignore this just like they nonchalantly ignore the rapidly rising tide of facts and figures that prove beyond doubt what a shithead incompetent totally unqualified spoiled brat Trump is.

edit - I can still hear the hollow refrain from every Trump loyalist that still proudly stand by his side: "You all just need to give the guy a chance to prove himself." lol
 
Troll is a loaded word in this context. There are bound to be some people in Russia that hold the same views that you do, and vice versa. Government funded, that's a different thing, but I'm still waiting for someone to make a rational argument about why it's bad to be more rather than less friendly with Russia, unless the whole point is just to attack Trump.

Trump is not good at all at public relations, but I recall quite a few times during the Obama administration where I saw people in other countries criticizing the US. Some of it might have been envy, some of it might have been propaganda they digested badly, but we're riding a fence where beyond a certain point it's not in our best interests to alienate other superpowers any more than we have to.

Trump will be out of office soon. Our relationship with other countries has to go on past that.

Think Long Term, and that if some US citizens were suckers, what's new there? While this Twitter reaction might be an over-reaction, it might help to wake up some puppet minds and let them realize just how weak their judgement skills are.
 
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Troll is a loaded word in this context. There are bound to be some people in Russia that hold the same views that you do, and vice versa. Government funded, that's a different thing, but I'm still waiting for someone to make a rational argument about why it's bad to be more rather than less friendly with Russia, unless the whole point is just to attack Trump.

Trump is not good at all at public relations, but I recall quite a few times during the Obama administration where I saw people in other countries criticizing the US. Some of it might have been envy, some of it might have been propaganda they digested badly, but we're riding a fence where beyond a certain point it's not in our best interests to alienate other superpowers any more than we have to.

Trump will be out of office soon. Our relationship with other countries has to go on past that.

Think Long Term, and that if some US citizens were suckers, what's new there? While this Twitter reaction might be an over-reaction, it might help to wake up some puppet minds and let them realize just how weak their judgement skills are.
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You do remember why sanctions were placed on Russia? They invaded a neighbouring country using Russian military contractors. They also trained and equipped insurgents to fight against the Ukrainian government.

They also allowed them the use of an SA11 sam system that was used to shoot down a civilian airliner. Russia has never admitted responsibility for any of it. This isn't talking about their opinions. The people behind these accounts are being paid.
 
mindless1 said:
Troll is a loaded word in this context. There are bound to be some people in Russia that hold the same views that you do, and vice versa. Government funded, that's a different thing, but I'm still waiting for someone to make a rational argument about why it's bad to be more rather than less friendly with Russia, unless the whole point is just to attack Trump.

Trump is not good at all at public relations, but I recall quite a few times during the Obama administration where I saw people in other countries criticizing the US. Some of it might have been envy, some of it might have been propaganda they digested badly, but we're riding a fence where beyond a certain point it's not in our best interests to alienate other superpowers any more than we have to.

Trump will be out of office soon. Our relationship with other countries has to go on past that.

Think Long Term, and that if some US citizens were suckers, what's new there? While this Twitter reaction might be an over-reaction, it might help to wake up some puppet minds and let them realize just how weak their judgement skills are.
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You gotta think about WHY Trump is so enamored with Putin and wants a bromance with the guy first and foremost. This is a problem between two people and then in a larger sense between nations.

I agree that friendly relations with our adversaries are a good thing but only so long as there aren't any reasons why one leader should be personally beholden to the other in some nefarious hidden way which seems to be the case with Trump and Putin.
 
mindless1 said:
Troll is a loaded word in this context. There are bound to be some people in Russia that hold the same views that you do, and vice versa. Government funded, that's a different thing, but I'm still waiting for someone to make a rational argument about why it's bad to be more rather than less friendly with Russia, unless the whole point is just to attack Trump.

Trump is not good at all at public relations, but I recall quite a few times during the Obama administration where I saw people in other countries criticizing the US. Some of it might have been envy, some of it might have been propaganda they digested badly, but we're riding a fence where beyond a certain point it's not in our best interests to alienate other superpowers any more than we have to.

Trump will be out of office soon. Our relationship with other countries has to go on past that.

Think Long Term, and that if some US citizens were suckers, what's new there? While this Twitter reaction might be an over-reaction, it might help to wake up some puppet minds and let them realize just how weak their judgement skills are.
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Gawd. You're avoiding the facts. The Russian govt mounted a massive trolling campaign in support of Trump. Their operatives misrepresented themselves to be American. We can debate the effectiveness of their campaign but it indisputably happened.

Why did they do that? Do they really want to MAGA? Given that they don't, people on the same side of it need to question their own sanity & the sincerity of their leadership.
 
Why does twitter feel the need to inform all of these people that they interacted with Russians? What is the desired result from sharing the information? Is twitter also refunding the advertisers who sponsored the troll posts (I'm assuming there are adds on twitter that support the service)?
The more I think about it the more questions I have. Is twitter gong to control content from Russia in the future? What if they support a democrat the next time? Is the US doing the same thing in Russia? Why doesn't China jump on this band wagon? I must be missing sever pieces of information, as none of it makes any sense to me.
 
Greenman said:
Why does twitter feel the need to inform all of these people that they interacted with Russians? What is the desired result from sharing the information? Is twitter also refunding the advertisers who sponsored the troll posts (I'm assuming there are adds on twitter that support the service)?
The more I think about it the more questions I have. Is twitter gong to control content from Russia in the future? What if they support a democrat the next time? Is the US doing the same thing in Russia? Why doesn't China jump on this band wagon? I must be missing sever pieces of information, as none of it makes any sense to me.
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Bro, Russians want destabilization and chaos....no matter what or who they use to get it.

Twitter should absolutely show people how gullible they are.
 
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Why does twitter feel the need to inform all of these people that they interacted with Russians? What is the desired result from sharing the information? Is twitter also refunding the advertisers who sponsored the troll posts (I'm assuming there are adds on twitter that support the service)?
The more I think about it the more questions I have. Is twitter gong to control content from Russia in the future? What if they support a democrat the next time? Is the US doing the same thing in Russia? Why doesn't China jump on this band wagon? I must be missing sever pieces of information, as none of it makes any sense to me.
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It’s not Russians, it’s State Sponsored Propaganda that they are pointing out.
 
Makes sense to me considering: 'Thousands of accounts are created secretly with the purpose of politically influencing normal users'.

Drawing from Newton's 3'rd law a suitable reaction would be: 'Informing normal users they interacted with one/some of the thousands of accounts secretly created to politically influence them'.
 
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