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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 5 Mar 2018
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    Michael Tracey Retweeted Samantha Power

    Reducing every election outcome they don't like to unspecified "Russian influence" must provide some kind of opioid-like escapist relief for Foreign Policy Expertshttps://twitter.com/SamanthaJPower/status/970688718075023360 …

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    Samantha PowerVerified account @SamanthaJPower
    Italy’s joins long list of elections influenced by Russia. Sputnik will do what Sputnik does. The question is: what are our democracies going to do about it? Will voters repudiate candidates who seek to benefit from Russian interference? https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/03/01/inenglish/1519922107_909331.html …
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      2. Jeremy Granade‏ @GranadeJeremy 5 Mar 2018
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        Italy is one of the well documented cases of election meddling after WWII, by the United States and CIA. And it didn't stop with an election. See Operation Gladio and the strategy of tension.

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      2. Philippe Lemoine‏ @phl43 6 Mar 2018
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        Philippe Lemoine Retweeted Philippe Lemoine

        Also the claim that @sputnik_italia played a significant role is absurd on its face. It only has ~6,000 followers and, using the metric of influence I explain in this thread (https://twitter.com/phl43/status/946864280900653056 …), I found that even I, with my 5,000+ followers, have more reach than them.

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        Philippe Lemoine @phl43
        A user's number of followers is probably a very poor measure of his influence on Twitter, because it doesn't take into account how many followers his followers themselves have, nor how many people they follow. 1/8
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      3. Philippe Lemoine‏ @phl43 6 Mar 2018
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        Specifically, @sputnik_italia has a score of 9619, whereas I have one of 10747. But even in the most unlikely scenario, there is no way I would have even a small influence on a national election in France, yet that's exactly what we are supposed to believe about @sputnik_italia.

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      1. JBrowne‏ @cvd6262 5 Mar 2018
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        Her last question is key. She wants the mere accusation of benefiting from supposed Russian interference to disqualify candidates. It's a modern-day denunciation.

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      1. sullen socialist‏ @SocialistSullen 5 Mar 2018
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        That's lucky. Normally it's just US interference.

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      1. Agatha Panthers #FreeJulianAssange‏ @Agatha_Panthers 6 Mar 2018
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        The CIA got rid of our only Australian Prime Minister who wouldn't do American bidding. What are democracies going to do about America is more of the problem? #Dismissal #1975 #Whitlam

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      2. Curtis Houck‏Verified account @CurtisHouck 5 Mar 2018
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        If Democrats win big time in November, will they declare regardless of any evidence that Russia didn't influence the election? It sure seems like it.

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      2. Oops! The Planet! ⓥ‏ @TippingElements 6 Mar 2018
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        It is reductive & externalizing tensions & pol weakness that allows space for fascist politics (that never went away) to grow. We say a lot about supply of disinfo, but I do think we should look at what it says that there’s a demand for all kinds of “disinfo” not just Russian.

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      3. Charles Minnich‏ @green_wyrd 6 Mar 2018
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        Is it perceived truthfulness? Is it the lack of diversity? I think everyone needs to consider the ramifications of this problem, as any riders to the First Amendment would be inherently problematic.

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      1.  👻 🎃 🌹The ghost of M_Cherry_315Ⓥ 🌹 🎃 👻‏ @M_Cherry_315 5 Mar 2018
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        Their underlying assumption appears to be that everyone other than these Experts is a mindless dupe; voters are tabula rasa sheep who do whatever they're told -- hence the need for Experts who will protect Democracy by choosing the correct candidates for us.

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      2. evan‏ @evankuchar 6 Mar 2018
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        I really don't understand your insistence that Russia is not trying to influence elections.

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      3. Merete von DOE  🇩🇰  🇺🇲 🌎‏ @MereteVonDOE 6 Mar 2018
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        Yes. Russia really is trying to influence the US elections, just like the US has meddled in so many elections and internal affairs in several countries But the problem in the #USA must still be the outdated election system, the biased media, and the closed debates #OpenTheDebates

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      1. Will Porter‏ @WKPAnCap 6 Mar 2018
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        Ahhhh, the warm, gooey simplicity.

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      1. Bill‏ @KutchT1 6 Mar 2018
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        Replying to @mtracey @Moj_kobe

        So 80’s!

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      1. Silvia Kolbowski 🌹‏ @skolbowski 6 Mar 2018
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        The US has always used the spectre of something or other as a cover for the ways in which capitalism breaks down democracy. And centrists never look at the big picture.

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      1. Michael Dean‏ @Okavangomick 6 Mar 2018
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        I remember being forced by the Russians to vote for Brexit. It's too traumatic to go into details, but I am 100% sure this happened to at least a million Brexit voters!

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      1. overnout‏ @rondross 6 Mar 2018
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        What a laugh! It would be truly comical if so many decent people weren't falling for it. Well, fewer now... hopefully

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      1. The Ghost of FDR's Martini  🍸 🌹‏ @theGSpledge 6 Mar 2018
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        Please don't call her a foreign policy expert. She was a lawyer and early staunch supporter of Obama for which she was rewarded with a politically appointed post for which she was grossly unqualified.

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