James Comey Says Americans Should Be Wary of 'Troll Farms' Peddling Fake News

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Time

Abigail Abrams
8:11 PM ET

FBI Director James Comey warned Americans that information they read on the internet may be part of organized disinformation campaigns aimed at undermining confidence in U.S. elections.

Opponents of the U.S. “used all kinds of vectors to try and influence and undermine our own faith in our democratic processes,” Comey said at an event at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.

Comey said the FBI would publicly call out efforts to interfere in American politics and added that the public should also be on guard.

“The most important thing to be done is people need to be aware of the possibility that what they're reading has been shaped by troll farms looking to push a message on Twitter to undermine our confidence” in the electoral process, Comey said, according to the AP.

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[center]

Pulleth thou this finger.

[retrowire]

1. Hey Comey

We're workin' on it. Think you could have told everyone sooner?

[Warpy]

3. He's trying to convince himself

since he was taken in, too, only to realize he'd thrown the election to a Russian stooge over nothing.

Well, if he's capable of realizing anything.

[retrowire]

4. God, I swear if he didn't say shit about emails that 2 weeks beforehand,

then the margin of popular vote would have that much higher.

[Charles Bukowski]

2. "Comey said the FBI would publicly call out efforts to interfere in American politics"

Good, they can start by calling out that asshole... James Comey.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. How about fake news trashing one candidate but being hopey-changey for the other?

[DK504]

6. Holy Shit. You have to be kidding me.

"Opponents of the U.S. “used all kinds of vectors to try and influence and undermine our own faith in our democratic processes,” Comey said at an event at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. "


"try and influence and undermine our own faith in our democratic processes,”

So many things wrong with this...this is beyond a face palm or beating my head against the wall. Primal scream time.

[ananda]

7. Of course he will.

Sure.

Absolutely.

Uh huh

[UpInArms]

8. troll farms on twitter? methinks tRump is definitely in that camp

eom

[unblock]

9. Accept only authentic, all-American fake news trolling!

Like that there might be something further to investigate about something involving Hillary's emails!

[thesquanderer]

10. I wonder if this could have anything to do with...

...this?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028926477

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. Now you're talking. I have two jobs on this board

1. figure out a way to stay within the rules while warning people here the SAME tactics used to get people to vote 3rd party last time are happening again

2. make sure people realize Hillary won ALL those states but the machines were hacked by the Russians

[7962]

11. Good lord, they're EVERYWHERE!!

i see links to sites I've NEVER heard of before every single day. And these people posting them never bother to actually check it out

[Akamai]

12. Why the hell doesn't Comey and the FBI out those people working at the Troll farms? Maybe have an

add-on to virus checkers that points out what messages are sent by trolls?

Sure would beat an ambiguous "be careful" message.

[cstanleytech]

13. Not to mention to be wary of an FBI director peddling fake news about emails. nt

[dalton99a]

18. +1

[laserhaas]

14. The sooner this tool is gone

The better

[truthisfreedom]

15. You may have misspelled troll.

[laserhaas]

20. Ha Ha

[Skittles]

16. *HE* is a troll

HE PEDDLED FAKE NEWS TO SWAY AN ELECTION

FUCK HIM

[briv1016]

17. He's covering his ass for when he announces he's not going to charge Donald.

"Ignore all the FAKE evidence."

[Nitram]

19. Oh, good! Does this mean they're gonna shut Fox down?

[laserhaas]

21. The pot leaned into the kettle, to bark the word "black"

and the the fruk into the abyss...screaming all the way down

I didn't do it........

[Sunlei]

22. took the man over a decade to notice birth certificate crap Republican party pushed was fake news

fox lies,
fox is an arm of the Republican party.
breibart creates a fake story or fake video,
fox lies asks trump about the fake story,
trump watches & interviews daily with fox,
trump believes everything on the internet is true,
Republican party giggles.
babies die.

[yardwork]

23. The FBI finally noticed something most of us have known for years.

I feel so safe.

[tavernier]

24. Look over there, there, and there!!

Anywhere but here.

[LaydeeBug]

25. Like the Hatch Act violating letter HE wrote. Fucking asshole. nt

[FigTree]

26. Americans should be really worried about their lack of critical thinking ability.

But then again, to get to that point of worry, a minimum critical thinking is required. Doesn't look too good.

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. Look no further than right here on DU and other prominent liberal gathering places.

The owners of DU are true blue democrats and do a great job of making this a fair and responsible place.

But, the same tactics used last year to elect Trump are continuing.

They continue here and elsewhere. This board apparently did a purge of the trolls who were working against the Democratic Party, but it continues.

[Vinca]

29. Americans should have been worried about Comey peddling fake Hillary BS.

[yurbud]

30. domestic opponents of democracy do this too. It's called PR

[R B Garr]

31. Simply amazing. It doesn't even take much to push fake news.

Ridiculing Democrats has been used for a long time and continues online. Limbaugh's show is nothing but ignorant ridicule. I see the same methods online.

[L. Coyote]

32. Trump's Troll Army hasn't paused since the election.

Now they are working overtime to dismiss #TrumpRussia and cyber lynch Obama and Susan Rice.