Why I Still Don't Buy the Russian Hacking Story

Tony Thursday 5 Jan 2017

Smoking gun, scion of an international real estate mogul takes a trip to a real estate conference in Russia.

Niccolo and Donkey Thursday 5 Jan 2017

Even turbo anti-Russians like Thomas Theiner are mocking guys like above for drawing such shitty connections.

shkanamataee Friday 6 Jan 2017

What gets me is they ignore the fact that average people (like the regular people I see and interact with around town) can see right through that bullshit. And yet they just double down on the stupidity.

Småland Friday 6 Jan 2017

I admit that I'm a young guy, and I haven't paid attention to things like this until very recently. For example I don't really know much about Iraq or the events that preceded it. But really these few weeks have been eye opening.

How, for example, can the NYT first say:

And then in the next paragrafs admit:

The report described a broad campaign that included covert operations, including cyberactivities and “trolling” on the internet of people who were viewed as opponents of Russia’s effort. While it accused Russian intelligence agencies of obtaining and maintaining “access to elements of multiple U.S. state or local electoral boards,” it concluded — as officials have publicly — that there was no evidence of tampering with the tallying of the vote on Nov. 8.

But the declassified report contained no information about how the agencies had collected their data or had come to their conclusions. So it is bound to be attacked by skeptics and by partisans of Mr. Trump, who see the review as a political effort to impugn the legitimacy of his election. Intelligence officials have rejected that view.

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link to article

Broseph Friday 6 Jan 2017

Media like NYT isn't about informing readers through presenting content. It's about programming people through delivery. How many people get past headlines?

Macrobius Friday 6 Jan 2017

Direct link: https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf [ PDF!]

The report is 25pp. long and thin on substance. Here's the key conclusions:

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The primary concern is not about hacking voating booths or the DNC hacks but 'influence' of Russian propaganda outlets, such as Russia Today and the propagation of the Clinton-controlled news sources in the same medium. Moscow agents of influence spread the news they preferred with greater success than CNN (which now ranks behind the Gardening Channel in viewership, by the way)

No mention in the report of the Ukrainian hackers and agents of influence (propornot) who now censor Saudi Prince owned and controlled Twitter. Looks like they're not up to the job. DHS will have to defend are Twitter.

tl;dr : It's a twitter and FB bitch fight.

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Is that chart about ad buys or wut? If the Hillobitch can burn 1.2 Billion dollars buying voats and still can't win without busloads of Illegal 'voaters' surely her SJW Snowflakiat is just butt sore they can't buy ad time on Al Jezeera and RT.

In terms of viewer engagement, Garden Weasel > Hillary Clinton Deal with it.

Niccolo and Donkey Saturday 7 Jan 2017

The media still remains regime loyalists so it tells its readership that faith in the system is required even if no evidence is provided. Why? Because "America is exceptional". Mainstream media in the USA has increasingly grown into a propaganda arm of the various departments of government. That's all there really is to it. The reasons for this are many and range from ideology to economics.

Why I Still Don't Buy the Russian Hacking Story

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