NY Times has reported that Democrats employed Russian-style fake news and false flag efforts during the 2017 contest between Roy Moore and Doug Jones.
I link to Newsmax stories here, which provides links to the Times pages, because many people often run out of NY Times stories each month:
https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/a...nth=12&date=19&id=895206&oref=www.newsmax.com
Less than a month after The New York Times reported on a left-leaning effort to help the Democrat in the race — Doug Jones, who won the election and is now a senator — by mimicking efforts on social media that Russia is accused of doing in 2016, the Times published a story Monday that discussed another stealth operation on Facebook and Twitter.
The most recent report details a Facebook page and Twitter account called "Dry Alabama," which, according to the Times, was full of images that depicted car crashes and videos of families speaking about the negative effects of drinking alcohol. It claimed to be lobbying for a statewide ban on alcohol sales.
The Facebook page was set up to appear as if Baptists who supported Republican Roy Moore were behind the effort. By trying to align Moore to the group, the Democrats tried to take votes away from the former judge.
https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/a...=01&date=07&id=897214&oref=r.search.yahoo.com
Undoubtedly such "fake news" and false flag efforts are constitutional to print. I have three and a half questions that do not bear upon that constitutional issue:
Do you support such intentional lying generally in the context of elections?
Do you support political candidates participating in any way in such intentional lying in the context of an election?
Do you support foreign nationals or other governments perpetrating such fake news in the context of an election in order to influence the outcome? If no, do you support an investigation into such a matter?
I link to Newsmax stories here, which provides links to the Times pages, because many people often run out of NY Times stories each month:
https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/a...nth=12&date=19&id=895206&oref=www.newsmax.com
Less than a month after The New York Times reported on a left-leaning effort to help the Democrat in the race — Doug Jones, who won the election and is now a senator — by mimicking efforts on social media that Russia is accused of doing in 2016, the Times published a story Monday that discussed another stealth operation on Facebook and Twitter.
The most recent report details a Facebook page and Twitter account called "Dry Alabama," which, according to the Times, was full of images that depicted car crashes and videos of families speaking about the negative effects of drinking alcohol. It claimed to be lobbying for a statewide ban on alcohol sales.
The Facebook page was set up to appear as if Baptists who supported Republican Roy Moore were behind the effort. By trying to align Moore to the group, the Democrats tried to take votes away from the former judge.
https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/a...=01&date=07&id=897214&oref=r.search.yahoo.com
Undoubtedly such "fake news" and false flag efforts are constitutional to print. I have three and a half questions that do not bear upon that constitutional issue:
Do you support such intentional lying generally in the context of elections?
Do you support political candidates participating in any way in such intentional lying in the context of an election?
Do you support foreign nationals or other governments perpetrating such fake news in the context of an election in order to influence the outcome? If no, do you support an investigation into such a matter?