I was just botted.

[sarah FAILIN]

I posted something about Trumpcare on my local reps page and 6 minutes later a girl from Russia commented on my post with a link. Didn't even pretend to be anything but Russian. Not about to click that link for anything....but this is big to me. It was just like Rachel was talking about last night. I am freaked out that they are still doing this.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Just a Russian living in the basement of the White House .......... nothing to worry about

Trump has it all under control

[elfin]

2. My rep seems to be aware of this practice

In addition to calling Sensenbrenner (only got thru on the 800 # after a LONG period of trying), I wrote an email on his site. Had to prove twice that I am not a robot before my message was sent.

He is hopeless, but I persist.

[Chakaconcarne]

3. Was there anything human about the post?

Like a specific response to your post, or was it just a link?

[anneboleyn]

5. Bots are a commonplace, and of course Russians used this for Trump. Bots post fake reviews of

movies, books, etc all the time. They are also of course heavily used in politics. They post a few lines and links (often to sites LOADED with malware and fake news)

[sarah FAILIN]

9. It was only a link

Looks like a real girls page but obviously not a real person posting this.

[chillfactor]

4. the same thing happened to me...

but in my hotmail email account.....I had to go in and change my password.

[sarah FAILIN]

10. I'm not clicking on the link for anything

[tanyev]

6. The pro-Trump groups on Facebook are full of Russians, Macedonians

and people claiming to be from other countries. As far as I can tell, most of the initial posts and shares are done by them. I find it strange that there are so many average Joe MAGAs that comment on the posts with no concern about how much of the daily traffic is from foreigners.

[0rganism]

7. one of the points Rachel (or was it Lawrence?) brought up was that they must keep doing this

it's part of the Russians' information warfare strategy
the campaign must continue non-stop, during peace as well as hostilities
guess we're going to have to get used to it, wouldn't hurt for us all to learn to read Russian

[Hortensis]

8. Not the same thing, but last night I searched on

Preet Bharara's case against Prevezon Holdings, a Cyprus based company supposedly involved in Russian money laundering, for connection to our Secretary of Commerce's Bank of Cyprus and ran into what could have been a serious virus. Occurred that that would be a way to discourage spread of information.