{"id":1803160,"date":"2023-01-12T08:03:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1803160"},"modified":"2023-01-12T08:05:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:05:38","slug":"the-russian-twitter-bots-story-is-a-study-in-medias-lie-set-the-narrative-then-quietly-backtrack-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-russian-twitter-bots-story-is-a-study-in-medias-lie-set-the-narrative-then-quietly-backtrack-playbook\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian Twitter Bots Story Is A Study In Media\u2019s \u2018Lie, Set The Narrative, Then Quietly Backtrack\u2019 Playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-russian-twitter-bots-story-is-a-study-in-medias-lie-set-the-narrative-then-quietly-backtrack-playbook%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1803160&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The Washington Post acknowledged Monday that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/01\/09\/russian-trolls-twitter-had-little-influence-2016-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters<\/a>\u201d \u2014 years after the Post and other corporate media water-carriers pushed the false story that former President Donald Trump\u2019s election was illegitimate, due in part to Russian interference via bots on Twitter targeting U.S. social media users. New York University studies support the admission. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/about\/news-publications\/news\/2023\/january\/exposure-to-russian-twitter-campaigns-in-2016-presidential-race-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Find it<\/a> \u201cthere was no relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Media treatment of the non-story followed a predictable, three-step process that\u2019s become the propaganda press\u2019s MO: Spread a false claim, control the narrative while crushing dissent with bogus \u201cfact checks,\u201d After the news cycle achieves its intended purpose, they will only admit the truth. <\/p>\n<p> The Russian Bots Story &#8211; How it Followed Playbook <\/p>\n<p>Robby Mook was the campaign manager for then-Clinton in 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/18\/spygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched<\/a> The conspiracy theory was that Trump, then-candidate, was in collusion with Russia to steal the 2016 election. The Clinton campaign commissioned one dossier of bunk allegations. Later, the entire media establishment and a politicized intelligence agency were running the Russia collusion hoax. <\/p>\n<p>One of many conspiracy theories was that Russia was trying to influence American voters through social media. This included armies of Russian soldiers. \u201cbot\u201d accounts. Joy Pullmann, my co-worker, has done it. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/09\/what-spygate-tells-us-about-the-google-facebook-and-twitter-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Not noted<\/a>This claim was made by U.S. intelligence agencies with an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/335885580\/Unclassified-version-of-intelligence-report-on-Russian-hacking-during-the-2016-election#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">intelligence community assessment<\/a>\u201d January 6, 2017 \u201csigned off publicly by the FBI, National Security Agency, and CIA concluding that Trump\u2019s election was boosted by Russian social media content farms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regime media repeated the same narrative before and again after that assessment that was later proven to be false.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say\/2016\/11\/24\/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cRussian propaganda effort helped spread \u2018fake news\u2019 during election, experts say,\u201d November 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/12\/how-russia-wins-an-election-214524\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politico Magazine<\/a>: \u201cHow Russia Wins an Election\u201d (spoiler: \u201cthe Kremlin\u2019s troll army swarmed the web to spread disinformation and undermine trust in the electoral system,\u201d The piece states that December 2016 is the date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2017\/04\/03\/522503844\/how-russian-twitter-bots-pumped-out-fake-news-during-the-2016-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NPR<\/a>: \u201cHow Russian Twitter Bots Pumped Out Fake News During The 2016 Election,\u201d April 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/07\/us\/politics\/russia-facebook-twitter-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a>: \u201cThe Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election,\u201d September 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2017\/10\/twitter-bots-distorted-the-2016-election-including-many-controlled-by-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mother Jones<\/a>: \u201cTwitter Bots Distorted the 2016 Election \u2014 Including Many Likely From Russia,\u201d October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cTwitter Files\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1610372352872783872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> just weeks ago that media pressure on this story, combined with threats from elected Democrats, were successful in getting Twitter to obey U.S. intelligence agency requests for information suppression, even though Twitter executives couldn\u2019t find any evidence of coordinated Russian disinformation campaigns on their platform.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">31.Twitter was soon settled on its future positions.<\/p>\n<p>Publicly, it removed the content \u201cat our sole discretion.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>They would be private. \u201coff-board\u201d Anything \u201cidentified by the U.S.. intelligence community as a state-sponsored entity conducting cyber-operations.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jc94kEg2KR\">pic.twitter.com\/Jc94kEg2KR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1610376851377061888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2023<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Hilariously Tim Starks <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/1613123228406542336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Same writer<\/a> who wrote WaPo\u2019s admission this week that Russian bots had \u201clittle influence\u201d On the election, had written a piece for Politico in 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/06\/05\/study-russia-cybersecurity-twitter-1353543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Title<\/a> \u201cRussia\u2019s manipulation of Twitter was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three-step process is regime media&#8217;s MO: spread a false claim, crush dissent, then admit the truth once the news cycle achieves its 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