Well, Fox News, right wing talk radio, RT are all malware in one form or another, used to combat reality’s built-in liberal bias.
@samt, nice article, minor correction,
Jonathan Albright, research director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism…
“Big Nothing Burger! U.S.A, U.S.A.!!!”
Sadly, it is devolving into nothing now that the mustard man is presidenting. Actually not nothing. More like a big mess. 2018 cant come soon enough. That will show how serious people are about making america geat again. Now that in less than 9 months all the gop have done is break it again, and again .
Right here on TPM, I’ve seen at least 3 different 7-time lottery winners trying to tell me I play wrong. I’ve been through 27 sports cars of athletes and musicians, but I still haven’t been sickened by Malia Obama’s hot new ride. The same “free” book about vitamins and herbs (if I just cover shipping and handling) still hasn’t destroyed Obama’s legacy at 0:33, and still hasn’t enlightened me why doctors in the know don’t prescribe metformin.
I guess I don’t mind clicking an ad to shoot $0.003 TPM’s way, or whatever they get paid. But I think I want to know more about who’s behind the false advertising.
I wonder if the Russians are behind all the magic vitamins and gold contract futures that are talk radio’s bread and butter.
When you add it all up, this election was stolen. He is a Fake President in all ways.
I am just curious, regardless of how bad Russian interference is, is it illegal? Do our laws prohibit this type of intervention in any way?
Not sure why they would target Wisconsin elections body. Walker already sabotaged this group with Republican hacks.
God damn it, Something has to be done about this…
Just not right now…
Just like you can’t talk about gun laws right after a shooting where 59 were killed and over 500 injured.
It never stopped Bibi Netanyahu from influencing our elections in broad daylight at the invitation of Republican’ts in CONgress. Nor has it stopped AIPAC from buying American politicians with impunity. But, of course, my party chooses to ignore the elephant in the room (pun intended), probably because they serve the same masters:
BISHOP WILLIAM BARBER II: Yeah, I’m very concerned that while we should focus on the Russian hacking, but that we’re missing that the greatest hacking of our system was racialized voter suppression. Let me give you some numbers for your audience.
Eight hundred and sixty-eight. That’s the number of—the number fewer, that we had 868 fewer voting sites in the black and brown community in 2016, black, brown and poor community.
Twenty-two. Twenty-two states passed voter suppression laws since 2010. That’s where 44 senators were represented, over nearly 50 percent of the United States House of Representatives. And at least 16 or 17 seats in the Senate—rather, in the House, probably would not be where they are partisan, if it was not for voter suppression.
Today is 1,562 days—1,562 days since the Supreme Court gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Now, Strom Thurmond only filibustered the Civil Rights Act of ’57 for one day. This Congress, under McConnell and Ryan, has filibustered fixing the Voting Rights Act for 1,562 days. We talk about Trump winning in Wisconsin by 20,000 or 30,000 votes. There were 250,000 votes suppressed in Wisconsin. In North Carolina, we had over 150 fewer sites doing early voting.
So it is amazing to me that we’re having a conversation about Russian hacking, but we’re not having a conversation about racialized voter suppression, which is systemic racism, which is a tool of white nationalism, which is a direct threat to our democracy.
(***Emphasis mine.***)
True, but then again, Russia will be light-years more active in every election forthcoming. What we’ve seen so far has been a warm-up act for the dissolution of our democracy. All of the players are in place. The technology has been tested. Our security apps can tell us what has been done in the past, but it can’t keep up with advances in Russia’s malware and propaganda campaigns against us. Republicans are determined to ensure that America’s glory days are behind us by continuing to ignore this threat from an enemy State.
All of this stuff about how they detected this or that attack and stopped it makes me wonder about how no one is saying that they have been conducting bit-for- bit audits on their systems and found no evidence of any changes.
Ads are served by VAST ad-networks that the web site (like TPM) contract with.
The byzantine ad-networks are a bottomless rabbit-hole of suppliers and sub-suppliers that are EASILY compromised due to their high level of automation, where humans don’t do anything but run the billing side.
To target a specific ad to a specific group of end-users is a common attack vector, easily seen by examining the ad’s preferences.
You forgot MAGA! MAGA! MAGA!
It seems very counterintuitive that (1) people were exposed to highly seductive clickbait ads, but (2) nobody clicked on them, or (3) if they did click on them, the malware was completely repelled. In fact I don’t believe it for a second.
If only Hillary Clinton had spent more time on the ground in Wisconsin. If only her message had been more coherent and inclusive and touchy feely without those dread identity politics, if only she shaped her message to be more. . . Oh, I don’t know, more sympathetic to Cheeseheads, if only Russian hadn’t meddled.
Don’t forget Trumpit’s Twitter account …