12-18-2018, 12:47 PM
(12-18-2018, 12:21 PM)Duchess Wrote: I am so curious to know what his cooperation entailed. Given this sweetheart deal it must have been substantial. He needs to do some time, he is still dickin' around. These fuckin' people. Jesus. Why is Cohen a rat and Flynn a great guy? HuhHuhHuh?
Down the line, when it becomes clear what information Flynn provided to Mueller's team, Trump might start calling Flynn a rat too.
On a separate but related note...........did you see the details yesterday of the Senate-sponsored analysis of the misinformation campaign launched by Russia during the 2016 campaign?
Some key take-aways:
1. Russian operatives launched over 10 million tweets, over 1,000 YouTube videos, roughly 116,000 Instagram posts and more than 60,000 unique Facebook posts in their effort to bolster Trump..........that translated to a reach of over 120 million people on Facebook and 20 million on its subsidiary, Instagram.
2. There was a broad voter suppression effort aimed at African Americans.
3. Russia's campaign continued after the election and focused on pro-Trump rhetoric, along with misinformation regarding Special Counsel Mueller. The misinformation campaign, designed to sow divisions among Americans, is still ongoing.
The heads of Facebook, Google, Twitter and other platforms are under the gun to better manage their content and their users' privacy. It doesn't appear they have been fully forthcoming in their congressional testimonies.
Senate Intelligence leaders called for action from Silicon Valley in the wake of the findings. The panel's chairman, Richard Burr (R-N.C.), said the reports "are proof positive that one of the most important things we can do is increase information sharing between the social media companies who can identify disinformation campaigns and the third-party experts who can analyze them.”
More:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/1...rt-1067113
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/12/17/181...-instagram