The Democrats always accuse the other side of exactly what they are doing. It seems no different with the use for “Russian bots” in 2017. Remember that idiot in Alabama? No, not Jeff Sessions, but Doug Jones. He had the entire media run with the Roy Moore false accusations that miraculously disappeared after election day. Turns out the Democrats used a Russian bot farm to spread the false rumors about Roy Moore and flip the election last year. Why am I not surprised.
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The Democrats have been wailing about the Russian influence on the 2016 election, but it turns out, as Mary blogged earlier this week, that they are implicated in creating their own army of fake Russian bots to influence the 2017 Alabama Special Election.
According to reports, Democrats spent the same amount of money on fake Russian bots intended to spread disinformation and fake news as the Russians spent on real Russian bots.
The Daily Caller reports:
While the debate rages on over how much Russia really influenced the results of the 2016 presidential elections, one detail put the entire controversy in perspective: Democratic operatives spent an identical amount of money on their project to create a Russian bot “false flag” campaign during the Alabama 2017 special election.
Multiple reports detailed the Russian government-backed Internet Research Agency spent up to $100,000 on Facebook advertisements throughout their entire disinformation operation. As The Daily Caller News Foundation reported Wednesday, billionaire-backed Democrats “created more than a thousand Russian-language accounts that followed [Roy] Moore’s Twitter account overnight.”
The group of Democrats behind the “elaborate ‘false flag’ operation,” as described in an internal report obtained by The New York Times, also created fake conservative Facebook accounts for the purpose of convincing voters not to support Republican candidate Roy Moore.
The cost of the effort totaled $100,000 — the identical amount Facebook says the Russian IRA spent during the last presidential election.