Indictment: Russians Pushed Voter Fraud Myth, Suppressed Black Vote

[applegrove]

By Sam Thielman at Talking Points Memo

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/indictment-russians-pushed-voter-fraud-mtyh

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The Kremlin operation that interfered in the 2016 campaign stoked fears of voter fraud in advance of election day, purchasing ads on Facebook and using the #VoterFraud hashtag on Twitter, according to an indictment of 13 Russian nationals filed by Robert Mueller’s probe on Friday.

Separately, the Russians spread social media messages that aimed to discourage blacks from voting, the indictment says.

One Facebook account, called Stop A.I., alleged in August that “Hillary Clinton has already committed voter fraud during the Democrat Iowa Caucust,” according to the indictment.

A week later, the group used its @TEN_GOP twitter account to report fictitious accusations of voter fraud being investigated in North Carolina.

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[guillaumeb]

1. Interesting day.

1) News about yet another adulterous relationship involving Trump and a Playboy model.
2) 13 Russians indicted for lection interference.
3) Reporters removed from Air Force One as Trump and Melania scream at each other.

Coincidence?

Fake news?

Only to the blind or complicit.

[dalton99a]

2. Russians are doing anything and everything to help Republicans.

[marybourg]

3. "Her e-mails, her e-mails."

[Gothmog]

4. K&R

[applegrove]

5. Maybe that is why Trump's voter fraud commission was disbanded

so silently and quickly. That the Trump WH knew this would come out and it would look bad to have a Commission. Implies when they created the Commission right after the election they did not know the meme was Russian though.

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. And DT came out and thanked black folk for "staying home". This was very well orchestrated. n/t