Russia manipulated US Christians with bizarre Facebook meme showing...Clinton fist-fighting Jesus

[DonViejo]

Russia manipulated US Christians with bizarre Facebook meme showing Hillary Clinton fist-fighting Jesus

BRAD REED
01 NOV 2017 AT 11:42 ET

Earlier this week, it was revealed that a Russian-backed website launched a campaign to convince conservatives that African-Americans had turned against the celebration of Christmas.

Now a new Russian Facebook meme revealed by Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) during a Senate Intelligence hearing on Wednesday shows that the Russian government took over-the-top measures to depict former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as anti-Christian by showing her getting into a boxing match with Jesus Christ.

The meme, which was made by a Russia-created Facebook Christian group called “Army of Jesus,” shows Jesus and Clinton — who is dressed in a red devil costume complete with horns — facing off against one another with their fists raised. The caption under the meme reads, “‘Like’ if you want Jesus to win!”

Link to tweet

As Mashable notes, the Senate hearings also revealed that Russian Facebook groups tried to organize both pro-Muslim and anti-Muslim demonstrations that would occur at the exact same times and places, in an effort to spark conflict between groups that shared mutual hatreds.

Watch video of the hearing below:

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https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/russia-manipulated-u-s-christians-with-bizarre-facebook-meme-showing-hillary-clinton-fist-fighting-jesus/

[Not Ruth]

1. Facebook jumped the shark

I am calling it

[Orrex]

8. Yeah, once they lose about about 1.75 billion more users, they'll be toast

[dpd3672]

2. In all seriousness

This type of crap is spewed by both sides, D and R, and from sources both domestic and foreign. If anyone changed their vote based on a Facebook meme, the country is already lost.

[LexVegas]

3. "This type of crap is spewed by both sides, domestic and foreign."

What the hell does that mean?

[mac56]

4. In all seriousness

Do you have examples of anything like this being "spewed" by the Democrats?

I'll wait.

[justiceischeap]

5. The stuff on the left probably comes from Russia too

This isn’t about political infighting, it’s about an adversarial nations influence over our electorate.

[unc70]

10. Enjoy your visit

[dpd3672]

6. My point was simply that inflammatory, ridiculous crap gets posted on facebook all the time

By the right, the left, and friends in the US and abroad...some of my friends who are the most politically vocal regarding US politics are Canadian and European.

That said, I seriously doubt "Hillary boxing Jesus" swayed a lot of votes. Most of the political buzz on Facebook doesn't ever seem to change minds, it just starts arguments.

Has anyone here...anyone at all...ever changed their vote because of a meme or a persuasive Facebook post? Because if that's happening with any kind of frequency, this country isn't really worth salvaging.

[Orrex]

9. Your notion that "both sides do it" is ridiculous, but...

Has anyone here...anyone at all...ever changed their vote because of a meme or a persuasive Facebook post? Because if that's happening with any kind of frequency, this country isn't really worth salvaging.

I agree with this. People lost their minds when word broke of Russia's Facebook meddling, but I say ho-hum.

No one who "changed their mind" to vote for Trump as a result of bogus Facebook stories was going to vote Clinton in the first place.

[dpd3672]

11. This ad was designed to appeal to extreme Christian Fundamentalists

Who were NOT strongly in HRC's camp ever. The fact is, if the ad was LESS extreme, it would presumably have had a broader appeal.

I still don't think Facebook has any kind of impact on the bottom line in the voting booth...it's more of a way to reinforce beliefs that people already have.

As far as both sides doing "it," I suppose that's how you choose to define "it."

I was referring to ridiculous, cartoonish hyperbole and negative ads, which...sadly...seem to be the rule these days, rather than the exception. The "Redneck pickup truck running down little ethnic kids" ads (that were just pulled) in the VA race is a basic example.

[gratuitous]

7. Give the Russians credit: They know their audience

This laughable bullshit was catnip for their intended audience of nincompoops, delusionals, and borderline psychotics. Slightly modified for more general consumption by the useful idiots at Fox and across the conservative airwaves, this ginned up conservative enthusiasm, depressed and divided liberal voters, and in concert with other activities designed to blunt voter turnout, scored the victory for the man currently tearing the country apart.