Hillary back on the Trump-Russia hacked election train

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Clinton continued, “The Russians in my opinion — and based on intelligence and counterintelligence people I have talked to — could not have known best how to weaponize that information unless they had been guided…Guided by Americans.”

When asked if she believed the campaign of President Donald Trump could have been involved she said, “Yes, I am leaning Trump. I think it’s pretty hard not to.”

 

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/05/31/hillary-russian-hacking-guided-americans-might-trump/

 

Grab your tin foil hats, here she comes again! 

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And anyone remember lefties here saying those on the left were beyond the Russia election hack conspiracy? Think again..

 

A majority of Democratic voters think Russia literally rigged the vote in the 2016 presidential election — an outlandish conspiracy theory with no evidence to support it.

 

The latest Economist/YouGov poll found 58 percent of Democrats saying that it is “probably true” or “definitely true” that “Russia tampered with vote tallies in order to get Donald Trump elected President.”

 

That number is up six points from December when 52 percent of Democrats said they thought Russia tampered with vote tallies.

 

Democrats have increasingly accepted conspiracy theories to justify their attacks on Trump and undermine his legitimacy as president.

 

Earlier this month, an aide to Sen. Ed Markey confirmed to The Daily Caller that the Massachusetts Democrat relies on unreliable conspiracy blogs as sources for information on alleged Trump-Russia connections.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/31/alternate-reality-58-percent-of-dems-think-russia-rigged-vote-count-to-get-trump-elected/

 

Proving what I've been saying all along, they aren't over November. Damn, I'm good. 

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Lets also take CEHST back to the Russia power grid hack conspiracy from your favorite fakenews source, WaPo..

 

On Friday the Washington Post sparked a wave of fear when it ran the breathless headline “

Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, U.S. officials say.” The lead sentence offered “A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials” and continued “While the Russians did not actively use the code to disrupt operations of the utility, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss a security matter, the penetration of the nation’s electrical grid is significant because it represents a potentially serious vulnerability.”

Yet, it turns out this narrative was false and as the chronology below will show, illustrates how effectively false and misleading news can ricochet through the global news echo chamber through the pages of top tier newspapers that fail to properly verify their facts.

The original article was posted online on the Washington Post's website at 7:55PM EST. Using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, we can see that sometime between 9:24PM and 10:06PM the Post updated the article to indicate that multiple computer systems at the utility had been breached ("computers" plural), but that further data was still being collected: “Officials said that it is unclear when the code entered the Vermont utility’s computers, and that an investigation will attempt to determine the timing and nature of the intrusion.” Several paragraphs of additional material were added between 8PM and 10PM, claiming and contextualizing the breach as part of a broader campaign of Russian hacking against the US, including the DNC and Podesta email breaches.

Despite the article ballooning from 8 to 18 paragraphs, the publication date of the article remained unchanged and no editorial note was appended, meaning that a reader being forwarded a link to the article would have no way of knowing the article they were seeing was in any way changed from the original version published 2 hours prior.

Yet, as the Post’s story ricocheted through the politically charged environment, other media outlets and technology experts began questioning the Post’s claims and the utility company itself finally issued a formal statement at 9:37PM EST, just an hour and a half after the Post's publication, pushing back on the Post’s claims: “We detected the malware in a single Burlington Electric Department laptop not connected to our organization’s grid systems. We took immediate action to isolate the laptop and alerted federal officials of this finding.”

From Russian hackers burrowed deep within the US electrical grid, ready to plunge the nation into darkness at the flip of a switch, an hour and a half later the story suddenly became that a single non-grid laptop had a piece of malware on it and that the laptop was not connected to the utility grid in any way.

However, it was not until almost a full hour after the utility’s official press release (at around 10:30PM EST) that the Post finally updated its article, changing the headline to the more muted “Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical grid security, officials say” and changed the body of the article to note “Burlington Electric said in a statement that the company detected a malware code used in the Grizzly Steppe operation in a laptop that was not connected to the organization’s grid systems. The firm said it took immediate action to isolate the laptop and alert federal authorities.” Yet, other parts of the article, including a later sentence claiming that multiple computers at the utility had been breached, remained intact.

The following morning, nearly 11 hours after changing the headline and rewriting the article to indicate that the grid itself was never breached and the “hack” was only an isolated laptop with malware, the Post still had not appended any kind of editorial note to indicate that it had significantly changed the focus of the article.

This is significant, as one driving force of fake news is that as much of 60% of the links shared on social media are shared based on the title alone, with the sharer not actually reading the article itself. Thus, the title assigned to an article becomes the story itself and the Post’s incorrect title meant that the story that spread virally through the national echo chamber was that the Russians had hacked into the US power grid.

 

Only after numerous outlets called out the Post’s changes did the newspaper finally append an editorial note at the very bottom of the article more than half a day later saying “An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electric grid. Authorities say there is no indication of that so far. The computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid.”

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/01/fake-news-and-how-the-washington-post-rewrote-its-story-on-russian-hacking-of-the-power-grid/#5139a6f57ad5

 

#FakeNews

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When will the butt hurt over the election end for these people?

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4 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

When will the butt hurt over the election end for these people?

I anticipate they won't. How boring these discussions would be if leftists were more rational.

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7 hours ago, IAMX said:

 

 

 

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/05/31/hillary-russian-hacking-guided-americans-might-trump/

 

Grab your tin foil hats, here she comes again! 

Weaponize The info. Dear God she has gone into a mental crisis 

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7 hours ago, IAMX said:

 

 

 

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/05/31/hillary-russian-hacking-guided-americans-might-trump/

 

Grab your tin foil hats, here she comes again! 

If counterintelligence is the opposite of intelligence, is this where we send all the idiots?

 

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3 hours ago, IAMX said:

I anticipate they won't. How boring these discussions would be if leftists were more rational.

Wait, I thought they were the epitome of critical thinkers?

 

 

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22 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Weaponize The info. Dear God she has gone into a mental crisis 

At least we were smart enough not to elect her President.