Sen. Mark Warner’s (D-VA.) is interested in Reddit as a potential tool of Russian social media influence
They note that many fake news stories can be traced back to the platform
Bradshaw pointed examples of hoax political stories disseminated on Reddit ahead of the election. “People from NY being bussed into Philly to vote!” reads one post, accompanied by a generic image of a bus as evidence. Bradshaw clarified that the posts were gathered in a preliminary analysis and weren’t definitively examples of foreign influence. But the posts still illustrate how false stories originate or gain momentum on Reddit. The bussing story was voted up more than 500 times on Reddit
Reddit is seen as a crossover space between more obscure internet subcultures like the Sup Forums and -Chan message boards and more mainstream sites like Facebook and Twitter. Like Sup Forums and -Chan, which have become hubs for white supremacists, anti-Semites and other extremists, Reddit has pro-Trump forums where offensive content and news stories with dubious credibility can be posted without oversight
Warner’s office said that it’s also interested in platforms like Sup Forums, but on a more preliminary level, noting that their focus is still on Facebook and Twitter at the moment.
Experts say any full investigation is unlikely to stop at social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. Instead, they say investigators should include chat and photo-sharing apps like Telegram, Snapchat and the Facebook-owned WhatsApp.“The chat apps are definitely the next step,” Bradshaw said. “Figuring out how Snapchat, and even dating apps, how those new platforms are also being used
Reminder that Democrat Pedophile Senator Menendez is on trial and will bring down the whole ring
Connor Robinson
Russian flags round here are rarer than virgin feminists
Cooper Fisher
Reddit is the biggest fucking circlejerk on the planet what is this cunt on about? >muh russian narrative
Michael Anderson
Dude Russia lmao
Landon Butler
Haha, this is their narrative for censoring the internet
“Can’t have Russian propaganda being exposed to minors... ban the websites fortune and re-edit”
Nolan Ward
>it's everyone's fault but ours
The lack of any honest introspection mirrors what you find in early adolescent children. They can't come to grips with the undeniable fact that more people reject their platform than accept it.
Colton Ramirez
No they aren't. I see Russian flags daily.
Blake Howard
Have they identified any sources of Israeli influence by chance?
Jonathan Rivera
You don't. That's propaganda. Stop spreading false information
Jose Jenkins
How come they never talk about the black supremacists, asian supremacists, islamists and chinese shills on here.
Carter Smith
I equate it more to serial abusers. Wife beaters and the like. They see themselves as victims, when in reality they are victimizers
Daniel Thomas
>american people would rather read russian news than what our media produces!
And whose fault is that?
Jason Nelson
Reddit is a complete shithole, but it must be maintained lest it's denizens take refuge here.
Levi Wright
Lol they want to control reddit EVEN MORE than currently
Juan Edwards
Who do you work for faggot. Did you rig the election?
Daniel Campbell
Han Supremacy is real. I would guess 99% of the world that isn't Chinese don't even know who the Han are, or that they want to enslave the planet.
Gabriel Carter
>vote democrat or we shut down your internet
Connor Reed
They would immediately get PTSD and need therapy
Levi Flores
Damn, I guess I missed the memo. Should I move to reddit now or stay undercover here?
Connor Lee
where do I find this -chan board?
Christopher Campbell
That's classified information. Do you really want to suicide by shooting yourself twice in the back of your head?
Luis Ross
Just replace Sup Forums with /mlpol/ until the end of investigations
Nicholas Hernandez
>he doesn't know about hyphenchan STAY OUT NIGGER
Adam Reed
I can't believe I lived to see this now. And this from the same Jews who use their embassies around the world to promote actual revolutions. I want off this fucking ride.
Hudson Flores
stop naming things you aren't suppose to name. did you learn nothing from harry potter?
Andrew Rogers
makes sense pizzagate was a bunch of redditors who were way too smart for their own news
Jayden Russell
RUSSIAN BOT CHECKING IN NIGGERS
Charles Wood
Le reddit had RT and all other RU news banned for 5 years now. Only real news like CNN, BBC etc. allowed. Pls tell me about muh Russian influence again.
Landon Moore
>DELETE POL AND T_D NOW >OUR NARRATIVE MUST GO UNCHALLENGED
fucking gestapo
Anthony White
Steam, at the very least. They can have internet access, just stay the fuck off Steam you cyka blyats
Dominic Powell
Ahh the clinton way.
Blake James
>russians start spreading propaganda to manipulate your elections (this did happen) >unrelated people get sick of you abusing your power and leak information about what you're doing >to cover up your evil acts you shove the former into a box with the latter and start using propaganda to discredit both groups >people gravitate to the actors leaking the truth but end up being shoved in a box with the russian propagandists >they start listening to the russian propagandists >in your effort to discredit the leakers you used propaganda yourself but labeled it as "the truth" >now all of the people you're trying to control are listening to russian propaganda and seeing it as the truth >if you start telling the actual truth you'll be ignored
how is it possible to fuck up this badly?
Ethan Rivera
If they did that their self-reflection would destroy the Democrat party.
Cooper Lopez
RT and sputnik aren't even huge in the ratings in america.
the government is considering naming them "foreign agents" since they are propaganda... which is a free speech issue
Benjamin Hall
>Implying this place isn't a massive CIA psyops at this point
Austin Evans
And hormone therapy for 10 year olds is perfectly normal
Camden Bennett
Menendez is a piece of shit all on his own. He didn't need help from anyone else to be a piece of human excrement.
Kevin Long
The first sign they were losing control was when all the mainstream media sites closed their comment sections. Russians are insignificant in both number and wealth compared to the middle and middle/upper classes of the western world and that's what they are really up against.
Andrew Williams
They should contact me. I could give them a guide to Russian propaganda tactics on Sup Forums.
Hudson Russell
Well what they also do is force comments to only be for facebook accounts. They are trying to ring everyone into standardized channels of communications. Like cattle to the slaugher.
Elijah Hall
Weve allways known reddit is full of commies. Sup Forums is allways right.
Joshua Parker
it's hard comparing a master dark wizard with 7 lich-like phylacteries to a crippled brittle-boned gnome getting his knob polished daily by his filipino wetnurse
Landon Flores
They're up against intelligent young White men who are pissed off because they know they've been screwed.
Jaxson Anderson
Holy fug Pepe's real name is Pyotr!
Dominic Evans
This guy gets it
Easton Nelson
could you imagine the flood of refugees here if they start censoring t_d :^)
Michael Carter
So came we safely say that the Democrats are against the Constitution?
I hope these ass hats have to sift through this bull shit website on a regular basis. I hope the Senator sees a thousand posts related to Sam Hyde, Sex robots and holocaust denial. Maybe this is how we redpill our country's leadership
Owen Gomez
Prepare to make a zeronet Sup Forums lads
Ayden Jenkins
>russian im calling the cops.
Jack Richardson
...
Liam Stewart
>Nearly every nationality posts on reddit and Sup Forums >Everyone interested in US election >Investigation finds that a few Russians were also taking part in the conspiracy theory discussions >THAT'S MUH KREMLIN!
You know it'll happen. These people have been grasping at straws for almost a year.
Lincoln Myers
>O V E R S I G H T
Ayden Robinson
Glorious cock sucker Warner will uncover my US proxy and mother Russia will be fucked in ass again.
Juan Edwards
How are these retards still going for the muh Russia narrative.
Caleb Thompson
I'm so fucking sick of this shit. This is what the Senate focuses on while stalling Trump's America First agenda.
Levi Clark
free speech on the internet? SHUT IT DOWN
Jason Brooks
based heebro!! check out muh captcha!!
Brayden Parker
The Trump/Nazi connection failed, so they went back to muh Russia.
Dylan Howard
The goyim are waking up! Shit it down!
Samuel Jackson
They're gonna be so confused when they start digging through the archives
>"What's the significance of the American bear-man on the mobility scooter?" >"He represents American decline in the face of Russian meddling sir" >"is this (((merchant))) based on a real person?" >"we think it's a composite sketch of Jewish enemies of the kremlin"
Jeremiah Parker
dont touch telegram or you will feel german rage
Luis Howard
>Probably relying on boomer burgers stupidity.
Joshua Flores
>Post YFW we've been shitposting with the CIA and KGB the last year and a half
Joseph Foster
>“Figuring out how Snapchat, and even dating apps, how those new platforms are also being used At this point I'm sure they don't even know what they're talking about and it'a just autistic >I don't understand how the world around me works or what I'm even talking about but it must be the work of evil russian anti semitic communist nazis, reeeeeeeee in peach Jkrtognaald Kruuugdspomsdpf reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee screeching.
Connor Williams
Yes. It was us who gave money to maher, colbert, oliver, horowitz and other jewish comedians to shit on white people. Guess whats next in our master plan.
Robert King
Give us the piss tapes of Reginald Drumpf right now, and we might let you live
Tyler Carter
This is true. Would aipac be considered a foreign government buying our politicians. It's one big lobby group. White people don't have their own lobby groups like that
Mason Clark
> ruskies are shit posting on reddit
so? place is a fucking echo chamber good luck getting through to anyone
I get the feeling the establishment is going to go about this the same way they went about the music and movie industries after the Vietnam war
take it over
Jack Ward
What law do these commies even think they're going to pass as a result of this "investigation"? No free speech on the internet? I'd like to hear one of these Democrats explain what the term "rule of law" means to him, because in practice they seem to have no idea and just act like wannabe totalitarian dictators.
Juan Carter
>shutting down reddit Pretty based, but better yet just track everyone who goes there and get their ISPs to ban them from the internet in general
Jaxon Flores
What they're really saying is that any foreign person who discusses the US election with an American is a saboteur. These old fucks barely knows how the internet functions.
And they'll be going after every single Russian private person as a potential Kremlin operative, for being interested in the US election, like everyone else on the planet. It's fucking stupid.
Aaron Gonzalez
This.
They're never going to suspect politicial dissention to take place in poner threads.
Daniel Davis
They are also implying we are so fucking retarded that mere contact with foreigners will corrupt us. That's North Korea tier.
David Bell
The best way to make the Jew news drop this is to redirect it at Israel. Start talking about Israel influencing our elections. Shift it onto someone else
William Ortiz
>implying we would never do such a horrible thing like interfere in a foreign election Dios Mio
William Torres
What about the US interference overseas? Obama: brexit passes you're in the back of the queue Crickets.
Eli Reed
>Russian influence (((they))) mean people who question (((their))) world view. Remember pic related, is how /we/ were b4 (((they))) flooded /our/ universities, public institutions, government, after WW2.
Oliver Price
Don't let them catch you alive.
Anthony Watson
Hey, now! Where's my paycheck from the Kremlin??? I've been shilling for mother Russia since last year! Gib me gibs!!!
Jaxon Perry
This will be pretense for banning all right-of-center websites.
Nathan Lopez
Imagine a wolrd where the Net is totally decentralized so that its infrastructure is not owned by any 'ISP' at all. Where everything is encrypted it's extremely hard to trace anyone who doesn't want to be traced. Where the smallest inconvenient truth about a politician spreads like plague all over the globe and there is absolutely no way to stop it.
Through the horrible hardships and censorship we face today, I believe we are slowly making our way to this uncensorable world of the future where people will literally shudder at the very ide of any agency silencing anybody at all. I am young and I hope to live long enough to witness this limitless, glorious Internet.
Anthony Parker
Obama was like a black moses to them
Leo Williams
>Israel >Saudi Arabia >Britain Just a few of the foreign nations influencing our elections with the blessing of "our" government. Belgium is so wrapped up in the Fed's market manipulations it could pass as a .gov agency.
Luke Foster
what the fuck bro
Connor Torres
Clean work on the legs. Sloppy with the arms.
7/10 overall.
Lucas Watson
"That guy had 500 upvotes! He may no even be Russian, but he swayed the election! Shut it down!"
Sebastian Myers
Some of us are already working on an improved encrypted onion imageboard. But not on the tor protocol. Tor is compromised.
Oliver Hughes
Will it be integrated in the niggercoin?
Chase Long
K-keep turning the Wheel of Shit Russia - Mysogenist - Sexist - Racist - Taxes - Unpresidentiality - Nazi - Fascist
S-someday something will stick
Brandon Sanchez
more importantly, how much would i have to pay katya to give me a rimjob?
Bentley Sanchez
>tfw your party is open borders and no voter id, but foreign shitposting makes you piss your pants
Juan Richardson
Any politician who says the Russia meme should be removed from office. Vote these retards out. I'm so tired of Russia this and that. Yes I'm sure I don't like Democrats or neo cons because Russians told me to.. get serious. I don't like Democrats because they love niggers and I don't like neo cons because they love Jews.
Aaron Bell
Oh no, they will block me from reading /r/roguelikes and /r/TheOrville.
Jeremiah Williams
Kek the system keeps stoking the bloodlust the people have for them.
Please do continue. Only hastening your demise.
Christian Smith
Warner stole wireless spectrum in rigged auctions to become wealthy.