Thanks, American Dupes

What's Totally Wrong With the Russian Influence Numbers from Facebook and Twitter?
They don't count the number of Americans sucked into repeating Russian Lies.

Boy, did we fall for that one!
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LOOK HOW WRONG THEY WERE ON THE REDDIT REPORT
  But their CEO just told the truth and it's scary.


According to (Reddit CEO) Steve Huffman, the most troubling activity on Reddit from known and suspected Russian operatives wasn’t in the form of ads or accounts run by trolls, but rather from actual Reddit users who were amplifying troll-made content of their own volition. One known Internet Research Agecny account on Twitter, @TEN_GOP, which posed as the account for the Republican Party of Tennessee, had its tweets “amplified by thousands of Reddit users,” according to Huffman, adding, “sadly, from everything we can tell, these users are mostly American, and appear to be unwittingly promoting Russian propaganda.”

 I KNEW THIS WAS HAPPENING. I COULD SEE IT NOT ONLY ON REDDIT, BUT ESPECIALLY ON BREITBART, RED STATE, DAILY CALLER AND THE OTHER RIGHT WING SITES WITH 'COMMENTS.' 

 IMHO, it's not that Americans are just gullible fools to accept dumb Russian conspiracy theories and bald faced lies.... gulp... but we did. The Rooskies are just good at this stuff. They cruise through and take the most outrageous stories that Americans are beginning to read in numbers and commenting on, then they amplify our very words, mix our responses and step them up to hyperbole... and we buy it and re-tweet, post and comment our gullible little tuckuses off.

As you can see, I've been preoccupied with this.

Bots are bad, bad, bad
Sophisticated Russian Trolls in L.A. Times
Whole 'Nother Bot Thang
If They Can Do This to Twitter
The Russians Really Like My Blog
50,000 Twitter Bots and Counting
The Russians are (still) here! The Russians are (still) here!
Rebuttal (to some rudenecks)
Cluster Trolls
Obsession Cured (not!)
Obsessed? Who Me?
Classic NASTYBOT Examples
NASTYBOTS
Olde Scooter Predicts
My New Passion - Reconciliation
They Are Whuppin' Our Butts In the Propaganda War
Looking for Bots in All The Wrong Places
Bot Spotting - Seriously
How to Spot a Bot+

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