Current Events > Another popular alt-right Twitter personality exposed as Russian fake

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rawstory.com/2017/11/the-right-wings-favorite-internet-personality-was-just-outed-as-a-russian-troll/amp/
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I'm starting to get tired of those russians

Time to make troll accounts on twitter encouraging russians to revolt against putin
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https://t.co/7bUoV613HO

Jenna Abrams was a popular figure in right-wing social media circles. Boasting nearly 70,000 followers, Abrams was featured in numerous news articles during the 2016 election, spotlighted by outlets as varied as USA Today, the Washington Post, the BBC and Yahoo! Sports. Her tweet about CNN airing porn during Anthony Bourdains show (it didnt) was reported by numerous outlets.

But Abrams never existed.

According to information released by House Democrats earlier this week, Abrams was one of more than 2,750 fake Twitter accounts created by employees at the Internet Research Agency, a troll farm funded by the Russian government based in St. Petersburg. In addition to the Abrams account, several other popular conservative social media personalities @LauraBaeley, SouthLoneStar, Ten_GOP were all revealed to be troll accounts. All have been deactivated on Twitter.

According to the Daily Beast, the agency developed a following around the Abrams account by offering humorous, seemingly non-political takes on pop culture figures like Kim Kardashian. The agency also furnished the fake account, which dates back to 2014, with a personal website, a Gmail account and even a GoFundMe page.

Once the Abrams account began to develop a following, the tone of its tweets shifted from pokes and prods at celebrities to divisive views on hot topics like immigration and segregation.

To those people, who hate the Confederate flag. Did you know that the flag and the war wasnt about slavery, it was all about money, the Abrams account wrote in April of 2016. The tweet quickly went viral, earning rebukes from historian Kevin Kruse and Al Letson, the host of the Center for Investigative Reportings popular Reveal podcast.

Those rebukes only allowed Abrams initial message to spread even wider, which was the ultimate intention of Russias propaganda campaign to sow dissension and increase the racial divide among Americas voting populace, revealing the worlds only superpower as a country in decline.

The tried and tested way of active measures is to use an adversarys existing weaknesses against himself, to drive wedges into pre-existing cracks, Thomas Rid, a professor of war studies at Kings College London, told Politfact. The more polarized a society, the more vulnerable it is. And America in 2016, of course, was highly polarized, with lots of cracks to drive wedges into, but not old wedges, improved high-tech wedges that allowed the Kremlins operatives to attack their target faster, more reactively and at a far larger scale than ever before.

Pamela Moore, another popular online personality during the 2016 election who tweeted using the handle @Pamela_Moore13. was also created in the same Russian troll factory with the same basic mission to sow division and heighten racial tension among Americans.

Unlike the Abrams account, which went out of its way to say wasnt pro-Trump, nearly all of Moores tweets leading up to the election appear to have crafted to support Trumps campaign. Among the accounts most widely shared posts leading up to the election were tweets repeating lies and conspiracy theories about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and pushing themes of Trumps campaign, including this anti-refugee post that was shared more than 4,700 times.

Former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn followed both accounts. His son, Michael Flynn Jr., shared a tweet from the Abrams account just days before the election.

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Flynn wasnt alone: Donald Trump Jr., Kellyanne Conway and Brad Parscale, Trumps campaign digital director, all retweeted fake Russian Twitter accounts in the month before the election. Vice President Mike Pence followed five different accounts tied to the Internet Research Agency, according to the Daily Beast.

Russias disinformation campaign wasnt limited to just Twitter; the country utilized ads and fake accounts like the ones below on many different social media accounts, including Facebook and Instagram, information released by the House Intelligence Committee showed.

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I wish I was paid to troll
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But did you hear about Hilary!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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But Russia is our friend!
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Phantom_Nook posted...

But Russia is our friend!

I hope nobody ever seriously believes this. Just because the Cold War ended officially doesn't mean all of a sudden Russia is our best bud.
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What the hell is going on with this reality? It's really starting to piss me off how our entire society is based on lie after lie after lie, who do you trust when everyone is lying their asses off trying to get one over on you?
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tremain07 posted...

What the hell is going on with this reality? It's really starting to piss me off how our entire society is based on lie after lie after lie, who do you trust when everyone is lying their asses off trying to get one over on you?

I mean, there seems to really just be one source of targeted Russian propaganda.

Pretty easy to see the truth from there.
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Americans are so easy to manipulate and will remain so as long as everything keeps being put into this stupid "liberals vs conservative" bullcrap

Wake up sheeple it doesn't matter if you're liberal or conservative, you are AMERICAN first and foremost. But there's just such a fucking divide nowadays that people would rather align with foreign countries
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wackyteen posted...

Phantom_Nook posted...

But Russia is our friend!

I hope nobody ever seriously believes this.

They do. It's very sad.
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This is my favorite version of the story
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jenna-abrams-russias-clown-troll-princess-duped-the-mainstream-media-and-the-world

The Twitter user Ironghazi couldnt remember what Jenna Abrams wrote in April that made him pose as a news reporter so he could call her a dumbass moron, but he knows whoever wrote it was pretty vacant.

If she got the Hi, Im Ironghazi from (CBS News) treatment, she mustve been [a moron], he told The Daily Beast.

It was Abrams Civil War tweet that prompted this reply from Ironghazi, which racked up over 1,000 retweets and 5,600 likes:

Hi Jenn, Im a reporter with CBS News and Im doing a story on dumbass morons, it reads. Do you mind if I feature your tweet and avatar?

Ironghazi, who declined to give his real name for this story because when you make people mad online, they tend to try to find you for some reason, is a notorious Twitter troll in his own right. In his most viral tweet, he shrank every continent with Photoshop to make them fit inside a map of the USA so he could illustrate just how vast our great nation is.

In other words, one of Twitters most infamous American trolls had been out-trolled by a state-sponsored Russian influence operation.

Now, over a year later, he says he didnt suspect a thing. From one troll to another, Ironghazi thought Jenna Abrams, the sometimes funny, often stupid, always angry American, was a natural.

The key to being a good troll is being just stupid enough to be believable, keeping in mind that the ultimate goal is making people mad online, he said. To that end, this Jed Abraham account succeeded. He then clarified that the misspelling of Abrams name was intentional.

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frozenshock posted...

Americans are so easy to manipulate and will remain so as long as everything keeps being put into this stupid "liberals vs conservative" bullcrap

Wake up sheeple it doesn't matter if you're liberal or conservative, you are AMERICAN first and foremost. But there's just such a fucking divide nowadays that people would rather align with foreign countries

True. Russians have been fucking with everyone.
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