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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Sat Oct 7, 2017, 07:21 AM Oct 2017

Here are some of the russian Facebook-ads that attacked Hillary Clinton.

https://thinkprogress.org/russia-facebook-clinton-campaign-d6d76b2a2e82/



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(Please note that this russian account writes "Fellow Texans" and "We are free citizens of Texas".)

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Anti-Clinton rhetoric shone through on the “Heart of Texas” page, a Russian account that advocated for Texas secession. When the page, which was the most popular Texas secession account on Facebook, wasn’t pushing to break Texas off from the rest of the U.S., it was railing against Clinton’s campaign, policies, and personality.

One post described Clinton as “pure evil,” while another shared an obviously photoshopped picture of her shaking hands with Osama bin Laden. Another post exclaimed “Hillary for prison!”, saying that Clinton “committed so many crimes that lifelong prison sentence is the least of what she deserves [sic].” All but one of these posts were published in the run-up to the election.


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But not all anti-Clinton material was as egregious, or as obvious, as the material on the “Heart of Texas” page. To wit, the Daily Beast found that Russian agents controlled the “United Muslims of America” page — a page named after an actual, extant group.
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But as Dean Obeidallah wrote, the point of such a post wasn’t to buttress Clinton’s candidacy. Rather, “The Russian hackers’ goal was clearly intended to further the narrative that Trump is tough on Islam while Clinton was palling around with Muslims.”


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a key theme emerges throughout: The Russian operations also targeted the cultural schisms and tensions coursing through the U.S., muddying messages and exacerbating tensions to the point of nearly breaking.



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In other news, RT reports on the "kneeling-for-the-national-anthem"-thing as if the US will descend into a civil-war over it any minute now.
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