Hello alexander!

06 Aug 18 12:17, you wrote to Lee Lofaso:

 ak> Hi, Lee Lofaso!
 ak> I read your message from 05.08.2018 20:16

 LL>> The entire basis of Russian election interference in US
 LL>> elections is what Bill Browder has said.  Vladimir Putin denies
 LL>> the allegations. One of them is lying.  The question is, which
 LL>> one?

 ak> I repeat my request to the public - give me an example of a
 ak> discrediting piece of evidence that was allegedly stolen from
 ak> Clinton's mail box by Russian hackers and helped Trump win the
 ak> election. Why the Americans still cannot convincing examples?

 ak> And, second -- those fake Russians on Facebook could not influence the
 ak>  elections just for a simple reason -- the absence of reputation. I,
 ak> for instance, can also say many ugly things about Clinton and Trump.
 ak> But who am I so that the Americans consider me as a valuable source of
 ak>  information? Only fools can.

  I don't think you understand how the Internet, and specifically social media
works.

 One idiot says something idiotic.  Another idiot reads the first sentence,
agrees with it, and re-shares it. other idiots follow suit.  Suddenly
"Alexander Koryagin is Batman!" is out there, and people start thinking you're
batman, even if you deny it.

making things go "viral" organically is happens largely by chance. The right
amount of people with the right subset of followers need to see it at the right
times. Chances can be increased when you have thousands of fake accounts/bots
that all re-tweet, or re-share things from other accounts. That information
begins getting pushed into people's feeds, and real people start believing it
to be true because they have the attention span of a spastic dog surrounded by
tennis balls, as they refuse to do anythn other than read the sensationalist
headline.

It just takes one "e-famous" person to re-tweet or share an untruth for it to
really gain traction, because all that persons followers believe the e-famous
person has done his or her due diligence and checked to make sure whatever they
are posting is accurate.

That is the current state of The Internet today.  In my opinion, we should burn
it all down and start over.


Mike


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