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Malcolm W. Nance
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“The 2016 cyberattack was not just another case of simple Kompromat - meddling in the political affairs of a satellite nation or an individual dissenter. It was a direct attempt to hijack and derail the traditional processes and norms that held the United States together for more than 240 years. The attempt was even more brazen due to the apparent belief that Putin assumed that he and his oligarchy could charm, groom and select a candidate, then with the right amount of cybercrime and enough organized propaganda they could actually choose a president of the United States to do their bidding.”
― The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election
― The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election
“The false information must be logical, believable, and acceptable to gain the confidence of the target population of an adversary nation. Like all good lies, the material must be crafted to play to the biases and accepted norms of the target audience, even if the information is horrible or distasteful to others not of that tribe.”
― The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West
― The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West
“Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer of Facebook, told Congress that the RF-IRA spent more than $100,000 on Facebook political ads between June 2015 and May 2017.5 This amounted to approximately 3,000 ads from 470 fake accounts and pages. A quarter of these ads were “geographically targeted” with an uptick in 2016 over 2015.6 Stamos stated that the “behavior displayed” was intended to “amplify divisive messages.” In addition to these numbers, Stamos said that accounts with “very weak signals of a connection” or “not associated with any known organized effort” amounted to $50,000 spent on approximately 2,200 ads, including ads purchased from US IP addresses.7”
― The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West
― The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West
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