A sample of 32,315 pro-Rittenhouse hashtag tweets, Nov 19-20, showed 29,609 with disabled geolocatio

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Divide & conquer: A sample of 32,315 pro-Rittenhouse hashtag tweets, Nov 19-20, showed 29,609 with disabled geolocation. Of those, 17,701 were listed as “foreign”, but a deep scrub revealed most of those were in Russia, China, and the EU. @Tara_Writer
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[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Putin has a lot of puppets, it seems.

[Progressive Jones]

2. I think it's time to find those on the US side of this shit. Find them,

and shut them down.
Any means necessary. It's a matter of national security.

[spanone]

3. ...K&R...

[Orrex]

4. Disheartening, but...

the ignorant racist fuckheads who now cheer Rittenhouse as a living martyred saint were going to support him regardless of Putin's schemes.

[Hortensis]

12. I'm taking another message: That Rittenhouse's passionate

support is significantly less than it appeared to be. If those people aren't quite crowding up, how are indepedent and conservative suburban voters feelng about him?

Not that it means most to all won't vote Republican, but still. How much damage might this have done? Every little post-crazy bit helps.

[KPN]

5. Kicked for exposure. Daylighting these facts is

hugely important. More than half of the pro-Rittenhouse hashtag tweets came from Russia, China and the like. How many of the 45-percent or so that originated in the US were influenced in the past by foreign operations? These people aid and abet the enemy of democracy and real freedom.

[Hekate]

6. Thanks for the info, Frank Figliuzzi

[nolabear]

7. Wow. This info needs to be spread around.

Fanaticism makes you so vulnerable to lies and manipulation.

[paleotn]

8. Divide and conquer.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Love and trust Figliuzzi

and Kirschner too!

[Mr. Ected]

10. The devil knows, to entangle yourself with an American political party

Particularly one that has fascist undertones at the least, and with the evangelical clergy, who can promise their congregants benefits beyond mortal means in their faith-based offerings...

...you become one with a largely unassailable opponent in the mainstream.

We have our work cut out for us.

[greenjar_01]

11. ROFL

I'm sure some included must-read analysis. And links back to must read analysis.

[Philosophizing Fool]

13. Roughly half

Foreign actors are behind roughly half of the tweets. The Republicans may be less inclined towards justifying the verdict with violence than some of us would want to believe. We are being divided and played for fools, not necessarily as an attack against democracy as much as an attack against our nation and values. If that same lens were held up to the far left messages that anger and spur the right, would the same results appear? Chaos, confusion, anger, and distrust are powerful tools and each of us has been and will be mislead by people using them for nefarious purposes. A few tweets cost much less than a spy or bomb and may be even more destructive on a national playing field.

[SouthernDem4ever]

25. "We are being divided and played for fools

Half of the voting population already fit that description - otherwise dumb trump would have never been able to smear his feces all over the white house.

[Pepsidog]

14. Dems need to be in the market to buy some bot farm.

[IronLionZion]

15. They just want to amplify what RWers are already thinking

RWers openly fantasize about killing people they don't like and will pick a fight to justify it as self defense. There are some factors in this case unique to Wisconsin that may not work in more liberal states.

[Bristlecone]

16. We are an easily manipulated people. Foreign Bots and Troll Farms

Shape our discourse far more than many realize - and those who are on the short end of the manipulation stick deny their own delusion.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

19. Easy solution folks Turn off the crack machines! God damn the pusher man behind Twitter and FB.

[Aussie105]

17. Oh, come on!

America, with it's misinterpretation of the Second Amendment of the Constitution, and the cray-cray attitude to gun worship in America, is ripe territory for anti-American propaganda from outside forces meant to escalate civil unrest.

Not unexpected, surely?



Notice the gun? Seeing the Constitution was written December 15, 1791, it's the wrong weapon. Should be a muzzle loading long rifle!



And since when are teenage boys wanting to big note themselves part of a 'well regulated militia'?
Or the 'security of a free State' - how was that helped by Kyle's actions and the subsequent legal farce that basically rubber stamped them as acceptable?

It's all ripe territory for bot farms stirring trouble!

Now if it's possible to identify malicious foreign tweets, why aren't they filtered out at source?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

21. Social media knows no borders and has no respect for sovereignty, and because it rides

on the back of freedom of speech it’s impossible to dismount….though as you say maybe it could be reined in?

[Aussie105]

23. "Freedom of Speech" requires

a level of responsibility on the part of the speaker to be factual and not inflammatory.

No American can shout 'Fire!' in a darkened picture theatre, or 'Gun!' in a crowded space, or 'Bomb!' in a crowded airport if those aren't factual.
There are limits, in other words.

'Freedom of Speech' used as a weapon needs to be treated as evil, with no thought given to cutting it's head off at the source. No, it's not censorship, just smart thinking.

In short, Twitter - get proactive and do not allow malicious tweets!

[bronxiteforever]

18. Kick and recommend.

[Biophilic]

20. How interesting and how disturbing. Makes it look like there is a lot

of passionate supporters willing to go online when there really isn't. We need to remember this when we start feeling discouraged. There aren't all that many of them. There are more of us. More people who think and believe in justice and equality.

[Aussie105]

24. Discouraged? Feeling powerless?

Well, that's the whole aim of the bot farm spread misinformation, isn't it?

Makes you go passive when some immediate and affirmative action is needed. Twitter needs active filtering, gun laws need changing, etc. But you feel powerless to do anything. Right?

So it's working, right?

[Biophilic]

27. Unfortunately sometimes it does work and I'm not on any other online forum/group except

AOL and Daily kos. I'm not being inundated with this kind of information. I'm, however, old enough to have thought we had won most of these battles or at least we were headed in the right direction. I have to keep telling myself that we are headed in the right direction which is why the push back is getting stronger.

[ShazzieB]

26. Amen to this. ⬆️

"There aren't all that many of them. There are more of us. More people who think and believe in justice and equality."

We all REALLY need to remember this. I understand that it may be harder for those who live in areas that are heavily MAGA infested to believe it, but I think it's true, overall, that those people ARE in the minority.

[OAITW r.2.0]

22. This is how cyber war against Democracy is conducted.

10% real / 90% bullshit.