CNN sees Russian bots behind the rejection of the evils of liberalism

The Lid Blog:
When you’re CNN, which used to advertise itself as “the most trusted name in news,” you see Russian bots in your sleep. On Tuesday, the network published an article asserting that the viral movement to #WalkAway from the Democratic Party is, in reality, a Russian bot campaign designed to help Republicans hurt their ideological rival.

“Now, in this 2018-midterm election season, as some predict a blue wave of resistance to Trump, his policies, and alarming authoritarianism, Republicans want to split up the Democratic political opposition and divide black and Latino voters. And Russia looks like it wants to help here, too. But this time it won’t work,” David A. Love wrote, adding:
The most recent example of this strategy is the #WalkAway hashtag, which is presented as a grassroots effort by former Democrats who are critical of the party’s alleged intimidation, confrontation and lack of civility and want people to walk away from the party.

However, #WalkAway has also now been connected to Kremlin-linked Russian bots, and it is now the seventh most popular Russia-influenced hashtag as of this writing, according to the website Hamilton 68, which tracks Russian influence on Twitter as part of the Alliance for Securing Democracy, an initiative of the nonpartisan German Marshall Fund. The purpose of this now-astroturf campaign is to manipulate public opinion by creating the illusion that this is a popular movement. In reality, #WalkAway has become pure propaganda, a psychological operation.
Got that? The thousands of people who have signed on to the campaign started by New York hairdresser Brandon Straka are, according to CNN, apparently doing the bidding of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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People have been walking away from the Democrat party for a long time.  Ronald Reagan is a good example.  I also walked away from the Democrats because of their incompetent handling of wars and their insulting reactions to the rejection of their policies.  This is just another insult aimed at those who think the Democrat party sucks.  I have seen Straka explain his decision and he does not look like a Russian bot at all.  CNN is so warped in its anti-Trump agenda that it has become a hangout for conspiracy mongers.  It is sounding like the John Birch Society.

That anyone would think that Republicans are doing teh Russians bidding by trying to recruit Democrats requires a special kind of paranoia.  Republicans have been trying to persuade others to join with them since the 1850's.

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