So it should have been surprising that the same day he was tweeting out plane crash conspiracy theories, he also argued in a "Facially absurd" op-ed in The New York Times that Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., should be charged with obstruction of justice - no, really - for performing congressional oversight of the FBI. Then again, it was only last May that The New York Times published another Russia conspiracy theorist named Louise Mensch talking about Russian hacking.
The letter demanded that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg perform an "In-depth forensic examination" on the "Ongoing attack by the Russian government through Kremlin-linked social media actors directly acting to intervene and influence our democratic process."
When Schiff advanced his theory that it was Russian bots - not Americans - who cared about FISA abuse, he received typical friendly media coverage.
In January, PoliticoPro ran a story that acknowledged Twitter had found no evidence of any significant Russian bot activity before this odd section that pretended denial had never happened: "Schiff and Feinstein said the companies must deactivate the bot accounts if they violate user policies. They want Twitter and Facebook to notify users who may have seen posts from the bots and to describe how they'll prevent similar foreign influence campaigns in the future."
Russian bot hysteria is taking over many in the media.
It is well worth a read for anyone wanting a factual look at how Russian troll armies work and how to guard against them.
Even she, in a new article for The New Yorker, mocks the hysteria over the troll farms and says of the Russian bot operation that it was "Not at all sophisticated, and about as bold as, say, keying a neighbor's car under the cover of night."
http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/21/how-the-media-enable-rep-adam-schiffs-russian-bot-conspiracy-theories/
The letter demanded that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg perform an "In-depth forensic examination" on the "Ongoing attack by the Russian government through Kremlin-linked social media actors directly acting to intervene and influence our democratic process."
When Schiff advanced his theory that it was Russian bots - not Americans - who cared about FISA abuse, he received typical friendly media coverage.
In January, PoliticoPro ran a story that acknowledged Twitter had found no evidence of any significant Russian bot activity before this odd section that pretended denial had never happened: "Schiff and Feinstein said the companies must deactivate the bot accounts if they violate user policies. They want Twitter and Facebook to notify users who may have seen posts from the bots and to describe how they'll prevent similar foreign influence campaigns in the future."
Russian bot hysteria is taking over many in the media.
It is well worth a read for anyone wanting a factual look at how Russian troll armies work and how to guard against them.
Even she, in a new article for The New Yorker, mocks the hysteria over the troll farms and says of the Russian bot operation that it was "Not at all sophisticated, and about as bold as, say, keying a neighbor's car under the cover of night."
http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/21/how-the-media-enable-rep-adam-schiffs-russian-bot-conspiracy-theories/
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