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Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
Fri Jul 6, 2018, 01:45 PM Jul 2018

WalkAway warning


WalkAway warning
https://www.wonkette.com/walkaway

Troll Farms And Russian Bots Are 'Fixing' Google
Dominic Gwinn July 05, 2018 01:42 PM
A campaign to influence the 2018 election is in full effect using a combination of Google trickery and Twitter bots, and it looks a lot like the 2016 Russian fuckery. The Daily Beast reports that since September 2017, an anonymous source has been paying bloggers in Indonesia and India to write a ton of nice stories about about people involved in Trump-Russia. The intent is to bury any bad stories about Trump, his kids, Felix Sater, former Russian trade minister Tevfik Arif, and Bayrock Group, the mob-owned real estate group used to launder dirty dollars into repatriated rubbles (and vice-versa).

The scheme is pretty simple: Write a bunch of blog posts for dummy websites. Because of the way Google's algorithm works, the mass of junk will appear before something more reputable, like a WaPo report detailing how Bayrock was used as a transnational money laundering operation.

Think of it like looking for a needle in a haystack, except someone keeps pouring more and more hay on top of you.

That's not the only evidence of internet fuckery; another report by indy media outlet Arc Digital has found a new Russian influence campaign on Twitter. Called the "WalkAway Movement," it claims to be a "grassroots" effort to lead Democrats who are "walking away" from the party over a perceived lack of civility. In reality, it's an astroturf social media campaign pushed by pro-Trump blowhards and Russian state-owned media.
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WalkAway warning (Original Post) Skidmore Jul 2018 OP
I will walk away Sherman A1 Jul 2018 #1
If you can "walk away" from the Democratic Party, to Trump over civility, we don't want you anyway. Caliman73 Jul 2018 #2
Well said. NY_20th Jul 2018 #4
Exactly! Caliman73 Jul 2018 #6
Here are some walkaway tweets happening in real time: Leghorn21 Jul 2018 #3
twitter, america's favorite source for rumour, lies, innuendo and plain fake news nt msongs Jul 2018 #5

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
1. I will walk away
Fri Jul 6, 2018, 01:51 PM
Jul 2018

From their walk away movement. I have pretty much figured out where I am politically (which is a bit left of Bernie Sanders) so they can enjoy themselves all they want and post whatever floats their boat.

Caliman73

(11,726 posts)
2. If you can "walk away" from the Democratic Party, to Trump over civility, we don't want you anyway.
Fri Jul 6, 2018, 01:56 PM
Jul 2018

I may be making light or being flip about this, but seriously, if you think that Congresswoman Maxine Waters calling people to protest is "uncivil" and as a result you are inclined to vote for Trump, or at least not vote against him, then your problem isn't with the Democratic Party, it is with your own stupidity and racism.

 

NY_20th

(1,028 posts)
4. Well said.
Fri Jul 6, 2018, 02:08 PM
Jul 2018

I will no longer engage with anyone who claims to be leaving the Democratic Party, or anyone who needs to be begged to vote.

People like that are complicit in this atrocity.

Caliman73

(11,726 posts)
6. Exactly!
Fri Jul 6, 2018, 02:16 PM
Jul 2018

I have my issues with certain decisions and actions by Democratic leaders and politicians. I am not perfect and neither are they. I would actually be worried if they agreed with me on 100% of issues.

HOWEVER, in the grand scheme of things, there is only ONE party that represents the average citizen and proposes that government should be an instrument to make life better for as many people as possible, with extra attention to vulnerable populations. That party is the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. The only thing that could make me walk away from the Dems is if they become exactly like the Republicans, and that seems impossible at this point as the Republican Party descends into madness.

I can see the criticism about certain special interests trying to infiltrate our party, but to say that the parties are anything alike is ridiculous and I have no time for that garbage.

Leghorn21

(13,523 posts)
3. Here are some walkaway tweets happening in real time:
Fri Jul 6, 2018, 02:05 PM
Jul 2018

I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/pV6C97fJRc Democrats Hate Black People #walkaway
#walkaway

13:31 PM - 06 Jul 2018
This is the socialist vision of the Democrat Party and what #Antifa #TheResistance #WomensMarch and others want here @cher #robertdinero #michaelmoore @NancyPelosi @chuckschumer @SenWarren @NYCMayor https://t.co/FvvnGiqln2 … Venezuela crisis. #WalkAwayFromDemocrats #WalkAway https://t.co/PJvdauKdor

Can't blame Trump 4 enforcing the Democratic Laws. Congressional Dems refuse 2 fix immigration laws= Schumer. Obamas inhumane facilities, caging children, handing them over 2 human traffickers was monumentally obscene & NEVER reported by the biased MSM. #DontBeFooled #WalkAway
#DontBeFooled, #WalkAway

06 Jul 2018
RT @RodriquezKhaliq: @RealCandaceO The police isn't the problem, we are. 200 black men were killed by other black men in Chicago - 2018 11 black men were killed by police officers in Chicago - 2018 It's a mindset that we need to fix. #WalkAway


More hatred #MAGA #WalkAway Retweet all Hatred!
#MAGA, #WalkAway
Tweeter 💃Battaram🔪Weapons🔨 (@MKronader) 13:36 PM - 06 Jul 2018
@FoxNews #walkaway #WalkAwayFromDemocrats #WalkAwayNow 🏃🚶💃 ↔🐖👺👿

#walkaway, #WalkAwayFromDemocrats, #WalkAwayNow


@gcsunrise) 13:36 PM - 06 Jul 2018
RT @DebAlwaystrump: #WalkAway #DemExit "IF UR WONDERING WHY UR VOTE IS SO IMPORTANT #Venezuela SHOULD SCARE THE HELL OUT OF U #Soros>>#SATAN THAT DESTROYED 1 OF THE RICHEST COUNTRIES BY MANIPULATING VOTES, TAKING GUNS, STARVING,POVERTY & MAKING IT A SHITHOLE HIS SAME PLAN 4 #USA" 🚨Vote Republican https:/

https://botsentinel.com/tweet-archive/hashtag/WalkAway?p=2

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I found this link via immaculate researcher SpicyFiles

Looks like walkaway cranked up about 2 weeks ago, but everybody already knows about it, so good luck with that!!

I don’t think we had these tools until recently to keep an eye on these schemes - ?

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