Investigators probing digital operation run by Kushner

[struggle4progress]

CBS NEWS July 12, 2017, 3:57 PM

... McClatchy News .. reported that investigators are looking into whether the Trump campaign helped Russian cyber operatives target areas in key states, "where Trump's digital team and Republican operatives were spotting unexpected weakness in voter support for Hillary Clinton."

Law enforcement sources told CBS News' Andres Triay and Pat Milton that investigators are looking at whether there was any coordination between the Trump campaign and/or its surrogates with fake news sites as part of its overall investigation into Russian interference into the U.S. elections.

Central to Kushner's digital strategy was Brad Parscale, whose company, Giles-Parscale, was paid $91 million by the Trump campaign. Parscale targeted voters with digital ads and social media ...

... There have been charges, Warner said, that the Russians were able to make sure in certain areas -- like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan -- that when women voters searched for Hillary Clinton in the last days before the election, they wouldn't get information about Clinton and Mr. Trump campaigning. Instead, Warner said, these women voters would see stories saying that Clinton was sick or that she was stealing money from the State Department ...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-investigators-probing-trump-digital-campaign-operation-run-by-kushner/

[dalton99a]

1. "The Russian government targeted influential populations in key states down to the precinct level"

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/jared-kushner-trump-campaign-russia-investigation

The question that both Congressional and D.O.J. investigators hope to answer is how the Russian government managed to so effectively identify and target unexpectedly influential voter populations in key states, down to the precinct level. According to McClatchy, one source said that investigators wonder whether Russia would have “known where to specifically target” without assistance from another party. “There appears to have been significant cooperation between Russia’s online propaganda machine and individuals in the United States who were knowledgeable about where to target the disinformation,” Mike Carpenter, who left a senior post at the Pentagon in January, said.

With an army of “bots” wielding pro-Trump messaging and “fake-news” stories about Clinton, the Russian government targeted a number of key precincts in states that Clinton narrowly lost last year. “It appears that, for example, women and African-Americans were targeted in places like Wisconsin and Michigan, where the Democrats were too brain-dead to realize those states were even in play,” Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said during an interview with Pod Save America. “I get the fact that the Russian intel services could figure out how to manipulate and use the bots. Whether they could know how to target states and levels of voters that the Democrats weren’t even aware really raises some questions.”

[struggle4progress]

2. Interstate Crosscheck files?

[cilla4progress]

3. Probe and digital in the same sentence

Ick.

😉

[BannonsLiver]

4. I still think it went beyond this, and they got into the voting systems themselves

[orangecrush]

5. I tend to agree.

[iluvtennis]

6. So do I