"How Russian Dominates Your Twitter Feed...."(Dailybeast)

[Dawson Leery]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/06/how-russia-dominates-your-twitter-feed-to-promote-lies-and-trump-too.html?via=mobile&source=twitter

"The main reason the media didn’t show up was that the story was substantially untrue. As a later statement by the Pentagon clarified, a peaceful protest had taken place involving about 1,000 people—not the 7,000 Turkish police reported by Russian news outlets or the 10,000 cited by Twitter users. Officials at the air base had been warned of the protest in advance. The base was not “surrounded”, Turkish security focused on securing the visit of U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Joe Dunford to Incirlik the next day."

[backscatter712]

1. I've noticed that as soon as Trump's numbers started tanking...

...especially after the DNC, and Trump's shitstorm with the Khans and his other foot-in-mouth incidents, that the Trump spam on Reddit that had been turning r/politics into a shitshow, suddenly subsided. Most of the "sincere Donald Trump supporters" went silent.

Putin's troll army beating a retreat? Probably...