How Rogue CIA Agents At Google Are Set To
Take Out Trump and Alt-Right Media
The Mainstream Media Is Using "Trolling" As An Excuse To
Censor The Right
by Tyler
Durden
Authored
by Duane Norman via Free Market Shooter blog,
Free Market Shooter was recently presented with an article from Vogue
detailing the steps Google’s Yasmin Green is taking to become a “slayer”
of internet trolls. A few notable excerpts are below:
“We have that geopolitical lens,” Green tells me. “We have the
mandate to think ahead, rather than respond to what’s happening at the
moment. To think prophetically.”
“Our job is to get more and better information in
the hands of vulnerable people,” she says.
“How can we illustrate this?” asks Green. How, in other words,
can the threat be explained so that you don’t have to be a Silicon Valley
programmer to understand it?
Does this sound at all to you like a simple reprogramming of
search algorithms? Because it sure reads a lot more like
McCarthy-ist censorship. And a closer look at Google’s strategy
reveals that is exactly what Google intends to do, with
right-wing news as the target.
First, you have to take a look at what Yasmin Green and Jigsaw have been
up to, and what its original purpose was. Jigsaw was
originally put in place to counter ISIS, which was an idea everyone
could get behind. Wired posted an article detailing exactly what it was
that she did:
“This came out of an observation that there’s a lot of online
demand for ISIS material, but there are also a lot of credible organic
voices online debunking their narratives,” says Yasmin Green, Jigsaw’s
head of research and development.
“The Redirect Method is at its heart a targeted
advertising campaign: Let’s take these individuals who are vulnerable to
ISIS’ recruitment messaging and instead show them information that
refutes it.”
The Redirect Method is a new way to confront
online radicalization with targeted advertising https://t.co/ySc8XK6MU6
pic.twitter.com/rZwUiZsFOK
— Jigsaw (@JigsawTeam) September
7, 2016
It all seemed innocuous enough – filtering search results, using
national security as the guise for doing so. But later that day, The Intercept detailed exactly where the “program” was
heading next: censorship.
Ross Frenett, co-founder of Moonshot, said his company and
Jigsaw are now working with funding from private groups, including the Gen
Next Foundation, to target other violent extremists, including on the hard
right.
“We are very conscious — as our own organization and I know
Jigsaw are — that this [violent extremism] is not solely the problem of
one particular group,” Frenett said.
Of course, the mainstream media made sure to help boost the claims.
The Guardian posted an analysis a few months later,
detailing the “tricks” that “right-wing” groups have implemented
for the goal of “widespread dissemination of misinformation”, which
appears to be much more like a baseless continuation of the Zimdars “fake news” list that made headlines
shortly beforehand.
In the past, when a journalist or academic exposes one of these
algorithmic hiccups, humans at Google quietly make manual adjustments in a
process that’s neither transparent nor accountable.
At the same time, politically motivated third parties including
the “alt-right”, a far-right movement in the US, use a variety of
techniques to trick the algorithm and push propaganda and misinformation
higher up Google’s search rankings.
And just recently, the gut punch came – Google announced it was implementing review teams with
outside contractors known as “quality raters” to flag terms that
could be deemed to be “upsetting-offensive” to viewers.
In other words, it is relying on bots to flag content as right-biased, so
it can be moved down in its search rankings:
Google is trying to improve the quality of its search
results by directing review teams to flag content that might come across
as upsetting or offensive.
With the change, content with racial slurs could now get flagged
under a new category called “upsetting-offensive.” So could content that
promotes hate or violence against a specific group of people based on
gender, race or other criteria.
While flagging something doesn’t directly affect the
search results themselves, it’s used to tweak the company’s software so
that better content ranks higher. This approach might, for instance, push
down content that is inaccurate or has other questionable attributes,
thereby giving prominence to trustworthy sources.
The review teams - comprised of contractors known
as “quality raters” - already comb through websites and other
content to flag questionable items such as pornography. Google added
“upsetting-offensive” in its latest guidelines for quality raters. Google
declined to comment on the changes, which were reported in the blog Search
Engine Land and elsewhere.
You got that right – a “review team” is subjectively deciding
which content it will censor. What happened to the programmers and
objectively censoring “trolls” and abuse? The whole
thing is much more similar to McCarthyism, except instead of targeting
“communists” during the Cold War, they are targeting “right-wing” websites
and individuals. Truly a threat to “national security” in the same
vein as ISIS, isn’t it?
If you take a closer look at Vogue’s article on Yasmin Green, which reads
much more like a self-promoting puff piece detailing her style choices and
educational background far more than it details anything substantive on
how Google will become a “slayer” of trolls, you’ll see where her
ideas on censorship likely came from.
“I actually told my family and friends in London that I’m not
going to settle in New York,” she recalls. “Obviously! It’s a very
aggressive city. It’ll rub off on me. And then you know what? I met a New
Yorker and married and had a New York baby.”
She went to University College London, then the London
School of Economics, then worked at a consulting firm, where she
specialized in oil and gas and traveled throughout Africa and the Middle
East, comparing cultures in a way that, when she looks back
now, destined her to work at a place like Jigsaw. When a job at Google
came up, Green saw a chance to be on the corporation’s intellectual front
guard.
It’s quite amusing that someone who has traveled Africa and the
Middle East, areas of the world where repression and censorship are so
commonplace that they are readily accepted as “part of” the culture, is
claiming to working to fight against repression and to stand up for free
speech by censoring “hurtful” opinions they oh-so conveniently happen to
disagree with. But what else would you expect, from someone who
lives in a place as “accepting” and “diverse” as New York City?
If Jigsaw really wanted to combat “trolling” and “fake news”,
perhaps they would start by flagging CNN as “upsetting-offensive” before
anything else? Meet Google’s Intelligence Officer and
Mata Hari of the web:
Yasmin Green (née Dolatabadi) was born in Tehran in 1981 and raised in
London, where, aged 16 she played on the England Junior Women’s National
Basketball team. She later received her B.Sc. in Economics from University
College London and her M.Sc. in Management from the London School of
Economics and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Today, Yasmin is the Head of Research and Development for Jigsaw
(previously Google Ideas), a technology incubator within Alphabet Inc.
focused on solving global security challenges through technology. She
oversees the team’s research as well as its work on counter-radicalization
and online hate, harassment, and intimidation.
At Google Ideas, Yasmin was Head of Sales Strategy and Operations for
Southern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and prior
to joining Google, consulted for Booz Allen Hamilton across Europe, the
Middle East and Africa. Yasmin has extensive experience leading and
project managing in some of the world’s toughest environments and has
spent time in Syria, UAE and Nigeria, where she has worked
cross-functionally in sectors ranging from oil and gas to the internet.
She recently led a multi-partner coalition to launch Against Violent
Extremism, the world’s first online network of former violent extremists
and survivors of terrorism.
Yasmin is a Senior Advisor on Innovation to Oxford Analytica and Co-Chair
of the European Commission’s Working Group on Online Radicalization. In
2016, she was named a Women inPower Fellow. She also serves on the Board
of the Tory Burch Foundation. She lives in New York City with her
musician/artist/filmmaker husband Adam Green and their two-year-old
daughter Zeba. Yasmin and Adam recently joined forces to produce Adam
Green’s Aladdin, a psychedelic papier-mâché re-make of the Arabic Nights
folk tale, starring Macaulay Culkin. #inspiringwomen #womenintech
#iranianwomen #heforshe #proudpersian #yasmingreen #google
#yasmindolatabadi #googleideas #womeninpower
Google
Raises Army of 10,000 to Fight for the Jews
While we’ve previously reported that Google was recently
pressured to change
their algorithms to bury holohoax-denial sites, the malevolent tech
giant has manifestly decided to go full out and declare war on the enemies
of the Jews.
They have raised a mighty army to swarm us, presumably with the
goal of destroying the world of men.
Google will now flag
or suppress search results that the (((DEEP STATE))) doesn't want
you to know about.
GOOGLE's
Schmidt wants algorithms to censor Internet for 'hate speech'
Google's Sergey Brin got into America under the special privilege for
Soviet Jews immigration law. Which was introduced into the US Senate by
Jewish Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
It should be noted that a representative from Google’s new 1984-style
internet political dissent suppression program, Jigsaw, will be at the
ADL conference as well. Expect nasty things to happen to our 1st
Amendment right to criticize Jews following this gathering of high power
Jews and NGO collaborators.
The
Great Shutdown: Google's Jigzaw
GOOGLE Launches
News 'Fact Check'
Russia
Insider
Ironically enough, in Wikileaks’ publishing three years later of
the Global Intelligence Files — internal emails from the private security
firm, Stratfor — Cohen’s and Google’s true depth of influence became
strikingly apparent. Assange wrote:
Cohen’s directorate appeared to cross over from public
relations and ‘corporate responsibility’ work into active corporate
intervention in foreign affairs at a level that is normally reserved for
states. Jared Cohen could be wryly named Google’s ‘director of regime
change.’ According to the emails, he was trying to plant his
fingerprints on some of the major historical events in the contemporary
Middle East. He could be placed in Egypt during the revolution, meeting
with Wael Ghonim, the Google employee whose arrest and imprisonment
hours later would make him a PR-friendly symbol of the uprising in the
Western press. Meetings had been planned in Palestine and Turkey, both
of which—claimed Stratfor emails—were killed by the senior Google
leadership as too risky. Only a few months before he met with me, Cohen
was planning a trip to the edge of Iran in Azerbaijan to ‘engage the
Iranian communities closer to the border,’ as part of Google Ideas’
project on repressive societies.
Of course, the massive company — its various facets now under
the umbrella of Alphabet, Inc. — has never been fully absent government
involvement. Research for what would become ultimately become Google had
been undertaken by company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in
cooperation with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) —
the strictly secretive technological testing and planning arm for the
Department of Defense.
Indeed Google’s continued coziness with the diplomacy, military,
and intelligence wings of the United States government should not be,
though perpetually are, ignored.
Political establishment bulldogs on both sides of the aisle and
their cheerleader corporate media presstitutes will continue for months or
years to debate the failed presidential bid of Hillary Clinton and the
apparently shocking rise and election of Donald Trump, but technology
played a starring role in those events. Several reports last year
cautioned Google’s algorithms could swing the election — and not only the
American election but national elections around the globe.
We estimate, based on win margins in national elections
around the world,” said Robert Epstein, a psychologist with the American
Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology and author of one of
the studies, “that Google could determine the outcome of upwards of 25
percent of all national elections.
Considering lines between the tech giant and the government have
essentially been abandoned, this revelation puts power and influence into
acute, if not terrifying, perspective.
Google’s ties with the Pentagon and intelligence communities never ceased.
Revealed by a Freedom of Information Act request cited by Assange, Google
founder Brin, together with Schmidt, corresponded casually by email with
National Security Agency chief Gen. Keith Alexander in 2012, discussing a
program called the “Enduring Society Framework.”
Facebook’s
Sheryl Sandberg and the Silicon Cartel
Eric Schmidt’s
Rogue CIA Outfit Wants To Rape Your Mind
THE CIA IS INVESTING IN FIRMS THAT MINE YOUR TWEETS AND
INSTAGRAM PHOTOS
Posted by Olivia
Russell
SOFT ROBOTS THAT can grasp
delicate objects, computer algorithms designed to spot an “insider
threat,” and artificial intelligence that will sift through large data
sets — these are just a few of the technologies being pursued by
companies with investment from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm,
according to a document obtained
by The Intercept.
Yet among the 38 previously
undisclosed companies receiving In-Q-Tel funding, the research focus
that stands out is social media mining and surveillance; the portfolio
document lists several tech companies pursuing work in this area,
including Dataminr, Geofeedia, PATHAR, and TransVoyant.
In-Q-Tel’s investment process.
Screen grab from In-Q-Tel’s
website.
Those four firms,
which provide unique tools to mine data from platforms such
as Twitter, presented at a February “CEO Summit” in San Jose
sponsored by the fund, along with other In-Q-Tel portfolio
companies.
The investments appear to reflect
the CIA’s increasing focus on monitoring social media. Last
September, David Cohen, the CIA’s second-highest ranking official, spoke
at length at Cornell University about a litany of challenges stemming
from the new media landscape. The Islamic State’s “sophisticated use of
Twitter and other social media platforms is a perfect example of the
malign use of these technologies,” he said.
Social media also offers a wealth
of potential intelligence; Cohen noted that Twitter messages from the
Islamic State, sometimes called ISIL, have provided useful information.
“ISIL’s tweets and other social media messages publicizing their
activities often produce information that, especially in the aggregate,
provides real intelligence value,” he said.
The latest round of In-Q-Tel
investments comes as the CIA has revamped its outreach to Silicon
Valley, establishing a
new wing, the Directorate of Digital Innovation, which is tasked
with developing and deploying cutting-edge solutions by directly
engaging the private sector. The directorate is working closely with
In-Q-Tel to integrate the latest technology into agency-wide
intelligence capabilities.
Dataminr directly licenses a
stream of data from Twitter to spot trends and detect emerging threats.
Screen grab from Dataminr’s
website.
Dataminr directly licenses a
stream of data from Twitter to visualize and
quickly spot trends on behalf of law enforcement agencies and hedge
funds, among other clients.
Geofeedia collects geotagged
social media messages to monitor breaking news events in real time.
Screen grab from Geofeedia’s
website.
Geofeedia specializes in
collecting geotagged social media messages, from platforms such as
Twitter and Instagram, to monitor breaking news events in real time. The
company, which counts dozens of local law enforcement agencies as
clients, markets its
ability to track activist protests on behalf of both corporate interests
and police departments.
PATHAR mines social media to
determine networks of association.
Screen grab from PATHAR’s website.
PATHAR’s product, Dunami, is used by
the Federal Bureau of Investigation to “mine Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram and other social media to determine networks of association,
centers of influence and potential signs of radicalization,” according
to an investigation by Reveal.
TransVoyant analyzes data points
to deliver insights and predictions about global events.
Screen grab from TransVoyant’s
website.
TransVoyant, founded by former
Lockheed Martin Vice President Dennis Groseclose, provides a similar
service by analyzing multiple data points for so-called decision-makers.
The firm touts its ability to monitor Twitter to spot “gang incidents”
and threats to journalists. A team from TransVoyant has worked with the
U.S. military in Afghanistan to integrate data from satellites,
radar, reconnaissance aircraft, and drones.
Dataminr, Geofeedia, and
PATHAR did not respond to repeated requests for
comment. Heather Crotty, the director of marketing at TransVoyant,
acknowledged an investment from In-Q-Tel, but could not discuss the
scope of the relationship. In-Q-Tel “does not disclose the
financial terms of its investments,” Crotty said.
Carrie A. Sessine, the vice
president for external affairs at In-Q-Tel, also declined an
interview because the fund “does not participate in media
interviews or opportunities.”
Over the last decade, In-Q-Tel has
made a number of public investments in companies that specialize in
scanning large sets of online data. In 2009, the fund partnered with
Visible Technologies, which specializes in reputation management over
the internet by identifying the influence of “positive” and “negative”
authors on a range of platforms for a given subject. And six years ago,
In-Q-Tel formed partnerships
with NetBase, another social media analysis firm that touts its ability
to scan “billions of sources in public and private online information,”
and Recorded Future, a firm that monitors the web to predict
events in the future.
Unpublicized
In-Q-Tel Portfolio Companies
Company
|
Description
|
Contract
|
Aquifi
|
3D vision software
solutions
|
|
Beartooth
|
Decentralized mobile
network
|
|
CliQr
|
Hybrid cloud management
platform
|
Contract
|
CloudPassage
|
On-demand, automated
infrastructure security
|
|
Databricks
|
Cloud-hosted big data
analytics and processing platform
|
|
Dataminr
|
Situational awareness and
analysis at the speed of social media
|
Contract
|
Docker
|
Open platform to build,
ship, and run distributed applications
|
Contract
|
Echodyne
|
Next-generation
electronically scanning radar systems
|
Contract
|
Epiq Solutions
|
Software-defined radio
platforms and applications
|
Contract
|
Geofeedia
|
Location-based social
media monitoring platform
|
Contract
|
goTenna
|
Alternate network for
off-grid smartphone communications
|
Contract
|
Headspin
|
Network-focused approach
to improving mobile application performance
|
Contract
|
Interset
|
Inside threat detection
using analytics, machine learning, and big data
|
|
Keyssa
|
Fast, simple, and secure
contactless data transfer
|
|
Kymeta
|
Antenna technology for
broadband satellite communications
|
|
Lookout
|
Cloud-based mobile
cybersecurity
|
|
Mapbox
|
Design and publish visual,
data-rich maps
|
Contract
|
Mesosphere
|
Next-generation scale,
efficiency, and automation in a physical or cloud-based data
center
|
Contract
|
Nervana
|
Next-generation machine
learning platform
|
|
Orbital Insight
|
Satellite imagery
processing and data science at scale
|
|
Orion Labs
|
Wearable device and
real-time voice communications platform
|
|
Parallel Wireless
|
LTE radio access nodes and
software stack for small cell deployment
|
|
PATHAR
|
Channel-specific social
media analytics platform
|
Contract
|
Pneubotics
|
Mobile material handling
solutions to automate tasks
|
|
PsiKick
|
Redefined ultra-low power
wireless sensor solutions
|
Contract
|
PubNub
|
Build and scale real-time
apps
|
|
Rocket Lab
|
Launch provider for small
satellites
|
Contract
|
Skincential Sciences
|
Novel materials for
biological sample collection
|
|
Soft Robotics
|
Soft robotics actuators
and systems
|
|
Sonatype
|
Software supply chain
automation and security
|
Contract
|
Spaceflight Industries
|
Small satellite launch,
network, and imagery provider
|
Contract
|
Threatstream
|
Leading enterprise-class
threat intelligence platform
|
|
Timbr.io
|
Accessible code-driven
analysis platform
|
|
Transient Electronics
|
Dissolvable semiconductor
technology
|
Contract
|
TransVoyant
|
Live predictive
intelligence platform
|
|
TRX Systems
|
3D indoor location and
mapping solutions
|
|
Voltaiq
|
SaaS platform for advanced
battery analysis
|
|
Zoomdata
|
Big data exploration,
visualization, and analytics platform
|
Contract
|
Bruce Lund, a senior member of
In-Q-Tel’s technical staff, noted in a 2012 paper that
“monitoring social media” is increasingly essential for government
agencies seeking to keep track of “erupting political movements, crises,
epidemics, and disasters, not to mention general global trends.”
The
recent wave of investments in social media-related
companies suggests the CIA has accelerated the drive to make
collection of user-generated online data a priority. Alongside its
investments in start-ups, In-Q-Tel has also developed a special
technology laboratory in Silicon Valley, called Lab41, to provide tools
for the intelligence community to connect
the dots in large sets of data.
In February, Lab41 published an
article exploring the ways in which a Twitter user’s location could be
predicted with a degree of certainty through the location of the user’s
friends. On Github, an open source website for developers,
Lab41 currently has a project to
ascertain the “feasibility of using architectures such as Convolutional
and Recurrent Neural Networks to classify the positive, negative, or
neutral sentiment of Twitter messages towards a specific topic.”
Collecting intelligence on foreign
adversaries has potential benefits for counterterrorism, but such
CIA-supported surveillance technology is also used for domestic law
enforcement and by the private sector to spy on activist groups.
Palantir, one of In-Q-Tel’s
earliest investments in the social media analytics realm, was exposed in
2011 by the hacker group LulzSec to be in negotiation for
a proposal to track labor union activists and other critics of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, the largest business lobbying group in Washington.
The company, now celebrated as a “tech unicorn” — a term for start-ups
that reach over $1 billion in valuation — distanced itself from the plan
after it was exposed in a cache of leaked emails from the now-defunct
firm HBGary Federal.
Cover of the
document obtained by The Intercept.
Yet other In-Q-Tel-backed
companies are now openly embracing the practice. Geofeedia, for
instance, promotes its research into Greenpeace activists,
student demonstrations,
minimum wage advocates,
and other political
movements. Police departments in Oakland, Chicago, Detroit, and
other major municipalities have contracted with
Geofeedia, as well as private firms such as the Mall of America and
McDonald’s.
Lee Guthman, an executive at
Geofeedia, told reporter
John Knefel that his company could predict the potential for violence at
Black Lives Matter protests just by using the location and sentiment of
tweets. Guthman said the technology could gauge sentiment by
attaching “positive and negative points” to certain phrases, while
measuring “proximity of words to certain words.”
Privacy advocates, however, have
expressed concern about these sorts of automated judgments.
“When you have private companies
deciding which algorithms get you a so-called threat score, or make you
a person of interest, there’s obviously room for targeting people based
on viewpoints or even unlawfully targeting people based on race or
religion,” said Lee Rowland, a senior staff attorney with the
American Civil Liberties Union.
She added that there is a
dangerous trend toward government relying on tech companies to “build
massive dossiers on people” using “nothing but constitutionally
protected speech.”
Author : Lee Fang
Source : https://theintercept.com/2016/04/14/in-undisclosed-cia-investments-social-media-mining-looms-large/
GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK UNDER
INVESTIGATION
FOR MANIPULATING ELECTIONS FOR
OBAMA
AND HILLARY
With Data From Peter Stone and Greg Gordon and modifications and updates
by WikiPedia writers
Investigators are examining whether Google’s far-left news site
manipulation played any role in the
2008 cyber operation that dramatically widened the reach of news stories —
some fictional — that favored Obama’s and, later, Clinton’s presidential
bid, people familiar with the inquiry say. Eric Schmidt, Google’s boss,
has confessed to being in the basement of Obama’s headquarters, on Obama’s
election, rigging the internet to steer perceptions towards Obama.
Experts say that the DNC hyped up a faked perception of a “Russian
Hack” in 2016 in order to distract from the fact that the DNC’s
Google, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and an army of off-shore bot-farms
actually did rig Obama’s original election, the following Mid-Term
election and tried to rig the 2016 election for Hillary.
Operatives for Google/Soros appear to have strategically timed the
computer commands, known as “bots,” to blitz social media with links
to the pro-left stories at times when the multi-billionaire Silicon
Valley Cartel of businessmen were on the defensive in the Presidential
races these sources said.
The bots’ end products were largely tens of millions of Twitter and
Facebook posts carrying links to stories on lefty internet sites such
as Huffpo News and CNN, as well as on the Soros-backed Move-on and
Black Lives Matter News, the sources said. Some of the stories were
false or mixed fact and fiction, said the sources, who spoke on
condition of anonymity because the bot attacks are part of an FBI-led
investigation into a multifaceted Google-based operation to influence
multiple year’s elections.
Investigators examining the bot attacks are exploring whether the
far-left news operations took any actions to assist Soros’s
operatives. Their participation, however, wasn’t necessary for the
bots to amplify their news through Twitter and Facebook.
The investigation of the bot-engineered traffic, which appears to be
in its early stages, is being driven by the FBI’s Counterintelligence
Division, whose inquiries rarely result in criminal charges and whose
main task has been to reconstruct the nature of the Soros’s cyber
attack and determine ways to prevent another.
An FBI spokesman declined to comment on the inquiry into the use of
bots.
Soros-generated bots are one piece of a cyber puzzle that
counterintelligence agents have sought to solve for years to determine
the extent of the Deep State government’s electronic broadside.
“This may be one of the most highly impactful information operations
in the history of intelligence,” said one former U.S. intelligence
official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the
sensitivity of the matter.
Some on the House Intelligence Committee, one of multiple
congressional panels examining Soros’s intervention, said that there
was “circumstantial evidence of collusion.” There also is “direct
evidence . . . of deception, and that’s where we begin the
investigation,”
As for the bots, they carried links not only to news stories but also
to Soros driven propaganda.
As an example, bots had spread links to try to sell the lie that the
stories that accused Democratic leaders of not having involvement in
running a child-sex ring in the basement of a Washington pizza parlor
were off base. In fact, the FBI has now arrested large numbers of
pedophiles associated with the Democratic party. Over 40 Democratic
registered Disney employees were arrested on underage sex charges.
PizzaGate is no lie and the huge numbers of arrests prove that
Democrats love underage sex abuse.
The study of bot-generated Twitter traffic during Obama’s campaign
debates showed that bot messages favorable to Obama significantly
outnumbered those sympathetic to his opposition and they were
controlled by Google.
Research showed that Americans who call themselves “patriotic
programmers” also activated bots to aid Obama and Clinton. In
interviews, they described coding the computer commands in their spare
time.
Counterintelligence investigators with more cyber-sleuthing
capabilities, have established that Soros and Google were the source
of the bot attacks which favored Obama and Clinton and sought to rig
their elections.
Soros and Elon Musk also used “trolls,” hundreds of computer
operatives who pretended to be Lefty or Tesla supporters and posted
stories or comments on the internet complimentary to Obama, Musk or
Clinton or disparaging to Trump. Sources close to the inquiry said
those operatives likely worked from a facility in St. Petersburg,
dedicated to that tactic.
“Soros bots and Google internet trolls sought to propagate stories
underground,” said a former senior Pentagon official during the Obama
administration whose job focused on Memes. “Those
stories got amplified by fringe elements of our media like CNN.”
“They very carefully timed release of information to shift the news
cycle away from stories that clearly hurt Mr. Obma, such as his
inappropriate conduct over the years,” he said, referring to Obama’s
epic scandals in which Obama bragged about grabbing taxpayers cash for
his Silicon Valley crony’s. That event corresponded with a surge in
bot-related traffic spreading anti-Trump stories.
An additional Soros tool was the news from its prime propaganda
machine: CNN with a global television and digital media operation and
a U.S. arm alongside pro-immigrant Univision.
Last Nov. 19, Breitbart announced that its website
traffic had set a record the previous 31 days with 300 million page views, driven substantially by
social media.
Breitbart, which has drawn criticism for pursuing a nationalist
agenda, was formerly led by Stephen Bannon, who became chief executive officer of Trump’s
election campaign last August and now serves as Trump’s
strategic adviser in the White House. The news site’s former national
security editor, Sebastian Gorka, was a national security adviser to Trump’s campaign and
presidential transition team. He now works as a key Trump counterterrorism adviser.
Breitbart’s chief executive officer, Larry Solov, did not respond to
phone and email requests seeking comment but privately many think they
have the feeling that Solov feels that Obama and Clinton were smooth
mobsters who raped the taxpayers for trillions of dollars
Breitbart is partially owned by Robert Mercer, the wealthy co-chief
executive of a New York hedge fund and a co-owner of Cambridge
Analytica, a small, London-based firm credited with giving Trump a
significant advantage in gauging voter priorities last year by
providing his campaign with at least 5,000 data points on each of 220
million Americans.
InfoWars is published by Alex Jones, a Texas-based conservative talk
show host known for embracing conspiracy theories such as one
asserting that the U.S. government was involved in the terror attacks
of Sept. 11, 2001. During the 2016 campaign, InfoWars.com was a loyal
Trump public relations tool. Trump was on Jones’ show and praised his reporting.
“It’s the major source of everything,” Roger Stone, a longtime Trump
confidant and campaign adviser, said last fall. Stone, who has
regularly appeared on Jones’ show and was on Monday, has said he invites an FBI investigation into his
campaign role. The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked Stone
to preserve documents in connection with the Sorosn election inquiry.
Jones responded to questions from McClatchy on his talk show.
“I’m not gonna sit here and say, ‘I’m a Soros stooge,’ because it’s a
(expletive) lie,” he said, denying any contact with the Soros
operatives about bots. He said this issue stemmed from “this whole
ridiculous narrative of the bitching left.”
“It’s as if we didn’t build InfoWars,” he said. “It’s as if we don’t
have a huge audience.”
Boosted by Google and Elon Musk controlled bots, the surge in
readership for CNN websites amplified Trump’s negatives. Some stories
falsely described his health problems as dire. Jones said Monday
that people gravitated to his website “because we were the first to
report Hillary Clinton falling down.” He referred to Clinton appearing
to collapse last Sept. 11 after visiting the World Trade Center
memorial. She was diagnosed with pneumonia.
“The full impact of the bots was subterranean and corrosive,”
Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, told McClatchy in an interview.
“The distribution channels were being flooded with this information. .
. . We perhaps underestimated the strategy of pushing fake news out
through social media and how it impacted the race.” Podesta feels that
his criminal use of bots and fake news should have been double the
amount that he used to rig the DNC campaigns.
Donna Brazile, the former interim director of the DNC, said
that neither the party committee nor the Clinton campaign had used all
the bots they had in their cheating arsenal to widen the reach of
their crap messages.
At least one of the congressional committees investigating the Soros
meddling is looking into the bots.
The Senate Intelligence Committee “intends to look actively at ‘fake’
news and the ways that Soros, Musk and Google bots and trolls were
used to influence the election,”
“Soros has again figured out from his old Nazi playbook that his
greatest weapon in the world is information manipulation and election
rigging. His information and disinformation campaigns have
skyrocketed.” Soros claims to not eat babies nor drink the blood of
abused young boys to try to stay young.
The Soros’s budget for “public information” had quadrupled this year
as it mounted similar cyber attacks on behalf of left-wing candidates
in France, Germany and other European countries.
“Google, Facebook, Soros and pretty much all of Silicon Valley Exist
to lie to the public and rig elections” Say multiple experts.
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CENTCOM Lies & Google Rigs Elections Watching the Hawks RT. ... Tabetha
Wallace reveals how Google might be able to rig our elections.
youtube.com/watch?v=sKMRZOSIY2o
I'm
sure Google could, in some small way, influence
elections (rig is certainly not the right word).
I'm also sure that this article is just a confused mess.
metafilter.com/152368/Can-Google-Rig-Elections