NYT: Dem Dirty Tricks vs Judge Moore

Rack&Roll · Dec 20, 2018

The New York Times has published a lengthy investigation detailing how Democrat operatives imitated Russian election interference by running a False Flag against Alabama Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore last year.

Attempting to cover their tracks, the Dirty Dems blamed their scheme on the Russians until they were cornered with the evidence.

One participant in the Alabama project, Jonathon Morgan, is the chief executive of New Knowledge, a small cyber security firm that wrote a scathing account of Russia’s social media operations in the 2016 election that was released this week by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

An internal report on the Alabama effort, obtained by The New York Times, says explicitly that it “experimented with many of the tactics now understood to have influenced the 2016 elections.”

The project’s operators created a Facebook page on which they posed as conservative Alabamians, using it to try to divide Republicans and even to endorse a write-in candidate to draw votes from Mr. Moore. It involved a scheme to link the Moore campaign to thousands of Russian accounts that suddenly began following the Republican candidate on Twitter, a development that drew national media attention.

“We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet,” the report says.

Mr. Morgan said in an interview that the Russian botnet ruse “does not ring a bell,” adding that others had worked on the effort and had written the report. He said he saw the project as “a small experiment” designed to explore how certain online tactics worked, not to affect the election.

Mr. Morgan said he could not account for the claims in the report that the project sought to “enrage and energize Democrats” and “depress turnout” among Republicans, partly by emphasizing accusations that Mr. Moore had pursued teenage girls when he was a prosecutor in his 30s.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/...nes-russia.html#click=https://t.co/CrgbVP3Ugl

This case hits close to home because I went to Alabama last December along with Deep Lurker to join the Moore campaign for their final week.

It sucks when Dem Dirty Tricks cancels out honest campaigning.

I guess we will just have to accept that fake electioneering websites will be the norm going forward.

NYT: Dem Dirty Tricks vs Judge Moore

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