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A US Senator is asking Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to help block what he sees as an attempt by Russia to influence US elections via Twitter. Delaware's Tom Carper (D) personally reached out to the Twitter boss over concerns about Russian "social cyberattacks" that would use sock puppet accounts to spread misinformation in the run- …

  1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Holmes

    Weird that no-one has ever brought up these claims regarding AIPAC for example.

    I strongly suspect that this is all preparation in case Trumps unexpectedly wins. The "t'was Russia" clamor will go into overdrive, the Supreme Court will annul the result and hand the result to La Néoconne Corrompue Madame Clinton.

    This might be followed by a little war with Russia (US vs Germany was started on similar shaky grounds), because the propaganda apparatus is rolling, and hey, never let a manufactured crisis go to waste (What else that woman gonna do? She has already declared that "Putin is Hitler", thus ensuring that she is the laughing stock of the other serious economies - and that "her mission is to fight evil worldwide" - and you know what that means for a neocon).

    Better get out of Europe while you can. Anyway it's hopeless crap now, what with Mutti Merkel the Obama admirer, the amazing decaying Eurozone, perma-PIGS, French socialistic terminal illness, brown people coming home to roost and as addendum the festering corpse of Ukraine ripped apart by Nazis and oligarchs (soon to be more Euro-Integrated, that's gonna be fun).

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      I guess here we have an example of someone dumb enough to believe Trump's "the only way I don't win if the election is rigged" line, and thinking of alt-right worthy conspiracy theories about the Supreme Court handing the election to Hillary. If the Clintons are so powerful they could control the court in the way you describe, why didn't they find for Gore instead of Bush in 2000?

      If you think about it though, the world would have been better off had that happened, as Bush was a disaster all around. There would have been no invasion of Iraq, and thus no surge to chase the foreign fighters into Syria and trying to overthrow Al Assad, and thus no ISIS. As (presumably) a conservative you'd probably enjoy that there would have never been a President Obama. You can bet the republicans would have placed the blame for 9/11 squarely on the democrats as they'd have been in their ninth consecutive year of holding the White House when it happened so they'd be out on their ear in 2004 and take a while getting back.

      Not sure what republican would have won in 2004, hopefully McCain, and since Palin would have not yet been elected governor he wouldn't be fooled by the conservative wing into making that disastrous choice that sunk him in 2008! And to think, all that from a party line 5-4 vote, when if Gore had simply asked for the entire state of Florida to be recounted he would have won...

  2. Oengus
    Pirate

    Reserved speech...

    spread misinformation in the run-up to the presidential balloting.

    So he wants to remove competition and have US media and political parties as the only source of misinformation.

  3. Sebastian A

    If twitter were to delete anything that could be considered as an attempt to influence someone's opinion it may as well shut up shop entirely.

    Not that there's any point. I doubt anyone's ever changed their point of view based on a twitter post.

  4. Captain DaFt

    "concerns about Russian "social cyberattacks" that would use sock puppet accounts to spread misinformation in the run-up to the presidential balloting."

    Concerns about Russia!? Can they even squeeze any misinformation in between what the current Republican and Democratic parties are doing?

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