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!

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.





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