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So much bias on that article against Russia, falsely gives the idea that Russia was the major actor pushing artificial tweets.

Hillary herself is sponsoring since years a small army of geeks in full time that blast biased tweets and comments, posing themselves as normal posters instead of being identified as paid comments: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/david-brock-hill...

This is a perversion of democracy, not even taking weight the proven federal crimes to which this former presidential candidate seems immune.

The means to bring back balance to democracy are certainly in our hands. This also includes exposing what is wrong with the upper echelons of western society.

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Hmm Hillary was an actual candidate. Russia is a state entity directly trying to influence a democratic process.

But they're a democratically elected state entity.

You’re talking about Russia? Isn’t Navalny in prison for running for president? Doesn’t Putin regularly win over 100% of the vote? Im confused

of course everyone can read the linked article if they choose, but that Mother Jones article does not even mention Twitter or any other social media site (where I guess the "biased tweets and comments" are supposed to have appeared). It seems to be about a campaign operation focused on delivering pro-HRC information to news reporters.

From this CFR discussion a couple years ago[0]: "… What about Twitter? I have no idea what Twitter is good for. But if it flips out every tyrant in the Middle East, I'm interested." - Michael Rogers, Founder, Practical Futurist; Futurist-in-Residence, New York Times Company

It seems as though some people are starting to realize the weapon they thought was their own, was never theirs at all… inserts something about chickens coming home and roosting

All in all, every step twitter takes to "protect" its platform (euphemism for those with voices most likely to be received and implemented by them, to achieve some arbitrary censorship ends) will be a step forward for federated and decentralized social networks.

Though, who are we kidding, lets hope that in the next election, even more money is wasted by the entrenched and ossified political orders and even more for the one that looses that needs some PR to cover their ass from the carnage that comes after, after all, its just good business.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20140531073143/http://www.cfr.org...

> Hillary herself is sponsoring since years a small army of geeks in full time that blast biased tweets and comments, posing themselves as normal posters instead of being identified as paid comments

You do understand how campaigning works, right?

Not how you want it to work, but how it actually works.

> You do understand how campaigning works, right?

Really? I'm asking because I don't know the answer; don't you have to identify yourself (like TV ads that say "I'm Obama, and I approve this message").

Only on TV.

Astroturfing is a different thing, yes, but it's still a thing nonetheless.

"Not even taking weight the proven federal crimes to which this former presidential candidate seems immune"

If there are punishable crimes why hasn't the justice department filed charges?

Because James Comey asserted that she didn't intend to break the law by committing those crimes.

Really please supply proof of this statement. And again, why hasn't the justice department opened an investigation into this? Both heads of JD and FBI are trump appointees is it not?

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