The latest over at Rawstory is that Breitbart and Infowars are under investigation for ties to Russia.
Operatives for Russia appear to have strategically timed the computer commands, known as "bots," to blitz social media with links to the pro-Trump stories at times when the billionaire businessman was on the defensive in his race against Democrat Hillary Clinton, these sources said.
The bots' end products were largely millions of Twitter and Facebook posts carrying links to stories on conservative internet sites such as Breitbart News and InfoWars, as well as on the Kremlin-backed RT News and Sputnik News, the sources said.
Sputnik News was banned in Latvia one year ago by Latvia's domain registry which was promptly sidestepped when Sputnik adopted a .com url. Just recently Sputnik was dealt another blow:
On 1 March, Sputnik Estonia reported receiving a letter from the Baltic News Service (BNS) announcing the unilateral termination of a contract for news delivery. A similar letter was received by Sputnik Latvia from Latvian news agency LETA, informing its Russian counterpart that all services would be terminated from 1 March.
Sputnik News has been very vocal in it's coverage of the annual March 16 Legionnaires march painting it with lurid prose as a Waffen SS tribute march which is invariably picked up by lazy media. Sputnik News is also generally acknowledged along with RT as Kremlin propaganda tools. In collusion with these state organs is Julian Assange and WikiLeaks which was responsible for the Snowden NSA document dump and the Podesta email dump. A trifecta of dumps when you factor in the DNC hack.
Bots, fake news, hacks. All parts of the new war, cyberwar. And make no mistake! Russia is at war with us.
EDIT: I just read the Speigel Online interview with German Intelligence Chief Bruno Kahl. His response to the question of whether WikiLeaks is partially controlled by the Russians.
Kahl: It is, at the very least, rather conspicuous that the propaganda I have just described reaches the public through three channels: the television channel RT, the website Sputnik and the whistleblowing platform WikiLeaks.
Operatives for Russia appear to have strategically timed the computer commands, known as "bots," to blitz social media with links to the pro-Trump stories at times when the billionaire businessman was on the defensive in his race against Democrat Hillary Clinton, these sources said.
The bots' end products were largely millions of Twitter and Facebook posts carrying links to stories on conservative internet sites such as Breitbart News and InfoWars, as well as on the Kremlin-backed RT News and Sputnik News, the sources said.
Sputnik News was banned in Latvia one year ago by Latvia's domain registry which was promptly sidestepped when Sputnik adopted a .com url. Just recently Sputnik was dealt another blow:
On 1 March, Sputnik Estonia reported receiving a letter from the Baltic News Service (BNS) announcing the unilateral termination of a contract for news delivery. A similar letter was received by Sputnik Latvia from Latvian news agency LETA, informing its Russian counterpart that all services would be terminated from 1 March.
Sputnik News has been very vocal in it's coverage of the annual March 16 Legionnaires march painting it with lurid prose as a Waffen SS tribute march which is invariably picked up by lazy media. Sputnik News is also generally acknowledged along with RT as Kremlin propaganda tools. In collusion with these state organs is Julian Assange and WikiLeaks which was responsible for the Snowden NSA document dump and the Podesta email dump. A trifecta of dumps when you factor in the DNC hack.
Bots, fake news, hacks. All parts of the new war, cyberwar. And make no mistake! Russia is at war with us.
EDIT: I just read the Speigel Online interview with German Intelligence Chief Bruno Kahl. His response to the question of whether WikiLeaks is partially controlled by the Russians.
Kahl: It is, at the very least, rather conspicuous that the propaganda I have just described reaches the public through three channels: the television channel RT, the website Sputnik and the whistleblowing platform WikiLeaks.
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