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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton Appreciation Thread [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)26. Here's last week's NY Times piece you referenced
What, Exactly, Is Tulsi Gabbard Up To?
Then there is 4chan, the notoriously toxic online message board, where some right-wing trolls and anti-Semites fawn over Ms. Gabbard, calling her Mommy and praising her willingness to criticize Israel. In April, the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, took credit for Ms. Gabbards qualification for the first two Democratic primary debates.
Brian Levin, the head of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino, said Ms. Gabbard had the seal of approval within white nationalist circles. If people have that isolationist worldview, there is one candidate that could best express them on each side: Gabbard on the Democratic side and Trump on the Republican side, Mr. Levin said.
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But its also an argument that reminds some Democrats of the narrative pushed by Russian actors during the 2016 presidential contest, when an operation by internet trolls worked to manipulate American public opinion: that the electoral system is broken and cannot be trusted.
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Still, Democrats are on high alert about foreign interference in the next election and the D.N.C. is well aware of the frequent mentions of Ms. Gabbard in the Russian state news media. An independent analysis of the Russian news media found that RT, the Kremlin-backed news agency, mentioned Ms. Gabbard frequently for a candidate polling in single digits, according to data collected by the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a group that seeks to track and expose efforts by authoritarian regimes to undermine democratic elections.
Disinformation experts have also pointed to instances of suspicious activity surrounding Ms. Gabbards campaign in particular, a Twitter hashtag, #KamalaHarrisDestroyed, that trended among Ms. Gabbards supporters after the first Democratic debate, and appeared to be amplified by a coordinated network of bot-like accounts but there is no evidence of coordination between these networks and the campaign itself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/us/politics/tulsi-gabbard.html
Then there is 4chan, the notoriously toxic online message board, where some right-wing trolls and anti-Semites fawn over Ms. Gabbard, calling her Mommy and praising her willingness to criticize Israel. In April, the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, took credit for Ms. Gabbards qualification for the first two Democratic primary debates.
Brian Levin, the head of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino, said Ms. Gabbard had the seal of approval within white nationalist circles. If people have that isolationist worldview, there is one candidate that could best express them on each side: Gabbard on the Democratic side and Trump on the Republican side, Mr. Levin said.
....
But its also an argument that reminds some Democrats of the narrative pushed by Russian actors during the 2016 presidential contest, when an operation by internet trolls worked to manipulate American public opinion: that the electoral system is broken and cannot be trusted.
...
Still, Democrats are on high alert about foreign interference in the next election and the D.N.C. is well aware of the frequent mentions of Ms. Gabbard in the Russian state news media. An independent analysis of the Russian news media found that RT, the Kremlin-backed news agency, mentioned Ms. Gabbard frequently for a candidate polling in single digits, according to data collected by the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a group that seeks to track and expose efforts by authoritarian regimes to undermine democratic elections.
Disinformation experts have also pointed to instances of suspicious activity surrounding Ms. Gabbards campaign in particular, a Twitter hashtag, #KamalaHarrisDestroyed, that trended among Ms. Gabbards supporters after the first Democratic debate, and appeared to be amplified by a coordinated network of bot-like accounts but there is no evidence of coordination between these networks and the campaign itself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/us/politics/tulsi-gabbard.html
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