While the FBI continues to struggle with its efforts to find evidence of direct connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 election campaign, they are continuing to branch out into ever more tentatively linked matters.
Today, it’s social media bots, with investigators looking into the question of whether sites publishing pro-Trump news, of which Breitbart News and InfoWars were singled out by sources, were “assisting Russia’s operatives” in getting Trump elected.
There’s seemingly no evidence of that, but certain bots were flooding Facebook and Twitter with links to the “pro-Trump stories” from the two media outlets, along with Russia’s Sputnik News and RT. Officials are also claiming some of the stories “were false.”
While social media bots are ubiquitous, the FBI appears to believe that this could lead to a link between the sites and Russia. Rep. Adan Schiff (D – CA), always eager to push the Trump-Russia narrative, says it amounts to “circumstantial evidence of collusion,” and suggested that Congress would get involved to investigate the “deception” by the media outlets.
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There are a tremendous number of bots on Twitter. The largest group are pro-Saudi Arabia, pro Kuwait, and pro Qatar. In the US politics category, during the election, Cruz had the most bot support, followed by Trump and then Rubio. Taking away the Arabian bots, they are more non-political ones than political ones. I believe that most of them exist primarily to generate & sell social media promotion – e.g. buy followers, buy retweets, buy promotion. Twitter is filled with commercial advertisements for those services and most of what they sell is bot followers, tweeting to bots, etc. I have also seen evidence that many of the bots are hosted by Twitter servers rather than outside computers. The following set factors lead me to believe that the CIA actually operates Twitter servers: a) absurd numbers of Arabian bots, b) the political focus, c) the bots hosted on Twitter servers, d) endless news reports about ISIS using Twitter, e) lots of independent evidence that the CIA supports ISIS, f) intensely strong connection between Twitter and commercial media – e.g. almost every writer working for a newspaper or publishing a book or selling commercial music automatically has a Twitter account whether they use it or not – they seemingly have to opt out not to have one; this is not true in the case of Facebook, g) other personal experiences/info that is difficult to briefly summarize.
The FBI appears to be getting desperate if this their focus. What a load of BS.
This will help folks know the truth about this tool known as the FBI.
Mar 26, 2016 John W. Whitehead 2016 : America’s Gestapo – The FBI’s Reign of Terror
We want no Gestapo or secret police. FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail… [J.] Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him.” (US President Harry S. Truman)
https://youtu.be/oR23PGXwDDo
WTF?
It’s pretty simple baldric. See my explanation above and stop being a Trump patsy.
Now hear this: bad journalism could lead you to be investigated by the FBI. Or, if you publish lies about Iraq’s WMDs which are helpful in starting a war that politicians were drooling for, there are no legal consequences.
That which is most likely is that Trump has given them the go-ahead on this in order to stop it. The Dems and their media are winning the fight to demonize Russia/Putin and it’s destroying Trump’s presidency for no logical reason. Trump never really had any intention of cozying up to Putin/Russia.
It was just a campaign tactic that he’s never mentioned again. And the proof of that at least in part is the expansion of Nato to Montenegro. It’s time for Trump’s dog and pony show to end!
March 22, 2017 The Multibillion-Dollar U.S. Spy Agency You Haven’t Heard of
How President Trump might turn an all-seeing spy apparatus on innocent American citizens.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46712.htm