Sen Tammy Baldwin D, WI seeks hearing after Russians pushed image of Obama in noose at Badgers game

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Good for Tammy but Doubt that Republican Thune will be concerned.


Tammy Baldwin seeks hearing after Russians pushed image of Obama in noose at Badgers game


https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/21/tammy-baldwin-calls-twitter-troll-hearing-russians-pushed-wisconsin-image-obama-noose/446618002/

Jason Stein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 3:03 p.m. CT March 21, 2018 | Updated 4:55 p.m. CT March 21, 2018


U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin called for a hearing Wednesday as new cases emerged of Russian Twitter trolls using racially charged incidents to foment tension in Wisconsin and around the country.

The news events spread by fake Russian accounts on social media ranged from the 2015 police shooting of a Madison teenager to a case days before the 2016 presidential election in which a fan at a University of Wisconsin Badgers game came dressed as then President Barack Obama with a noose around his neck.

In a letter Wednesday to Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), Baldwin called for the Senate Commerce Committee to hold hearings on the Russian manipulation of Twitter and other social media platforms to meddle in the election. Baldwin's letter cites a report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel last week laying out how Russian trolls spread hate and disinformation in the wake of the August 2016 Sherman Park unrest in Milwaukee.

"I am troubled by these companies' failure both to protect their users' data and to prevent their platforms from being used to disseminate false information, pushed by a foreign power, designed to interfere with our elections and undermine our institutions," Baldwin wrote to Thune.

A spokesman for Thune had no response to the call for a hearing, ....................................
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In her letter to Thune, Baldwin said the Senate Commerce Committee should also look into allegations that political data firm Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained Facebook data on millions of Americans and then tried to use that information to help candidates such as Trump.


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[riversedge]

1. Former Sheriff David Clarke had a stupid reply..........

Link to tweet

[lunasun]

2. Ok but this was not fake news. Real haters and may have been played up to create discord but

real fans did that not Russians afaik a fan at a University of Wisconsin Badgers game came dressed as then President Barack Obama with a noose around

I don't use FB so I don't know how it was used but not fake news or am I misinformed ? I'd like to know if this was fake

The mock lynching at the UW-Madison Badgers game in late October 2016 sparked national outrage after people showed up to the game dressed as Obama and then Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a prisoner costume with a noose around their necks. A person dressed as Donald Trump held the noose.

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3. I believe the Russian trolls kept passing it around as a good thing. Retweeted, retweeted. And you

are right. It is not fake news. I use twitter and recall blocking that pic endlessly