You know the Russian meddling in the Senate election where Doug Jones defeated Roy “10 Commandments” Moore?<\/p>\n
It not turns out that it was a false flag operation by a Democratic Party consultant<\/a>: (I’m sure that he was well remunerated)<\/p>\n Reid Hoffman, the tech billionaire whose money was spent on Russian-style social media deception<\/a> in a Senate race last year, apologized on Wednesday, saying in a statement<\/a> that he had not approved the operation and did not support such tactics in American politics.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Why am I thinking that Mr. Hoffman is lying through his teeth, and that he either knew what was going on, or was willfully blind?<\/p>\n Mr. Hoffman said he had no idea that political operatives whose work he had financed had used fakery on Facebook and Twitter in the special Senate election a year ago in Alabama. But he had an obligation to track how his money was spent, he said, and he promised to exercise more care in the future.<\/span> (emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n It really remarkable just how facile the Democratic Party political consultant community has in stepping on their own penises.<\/p>\n Yet another example of how the Dems snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.<\/p>\n We really need to fire the whole lot of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You know the Russian meddling in the Senate election where Doug Jones defeated Roy “10 Commandments” Moore? It not turns out that it was a false flag operation by a Democratic Party consultant: (I’m sure that he was well remunerated) Reid Hoffman, the tech billionaire whose money was spent on Russian-style social media deception in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-178342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/span>The New York Times and The Washington Post reported last week that $100,000 from Mr. Hoffman was spent on a deceptive social media campaign to aid Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate, who barely defeated the Republican, Roy Moore.<\/span>
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<\/span>They also used thousands of Twitter accounts to make it appear as if automated Russian bot accounts were following and supporting Mr. Moore<\/span><\/b>, according to an internal report on the project. The apparent Russian support for Mr. Moore drew broad news media coverage.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n