Midterm Trolls - Online and Off
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's this woman named Luisa Haynes, who I want to tell you about. |
| 0:05.3 | She went by the Twitter handle, Woke Luisa. Her picture showed a young, pretty black woman. |
| 0:10.9 | And if you're frustrated by Donald Trump, I get to say her timeline was pretty funny. |
| 0:16.3 | Like when you were setting your clocks back for daylight savings time, |
| 0:19.4 | she tweeted, don't forget to delete one hour from the Trump presidency at 2am. |
| 0:24.8 | It's not bad, right? She had opinions about policy too. |
| 0:28.9 | Trump wants to spend $25 million on a border wall she tweeted at one point. |
| 0:33.4 | That money could be used to pay $192,000 porn stars to stay quiet. |
| 0:41.1 | Luisa was popular. She had more than 50,000 followers. |
| 0:44.7 | Her hot takes on politics were picked up and reposted by the BBC, USA Today, Time Magazine, |
| 0:51.2 | and more. But the thing with Luisa Haynes is that she wasn't real. |
| 0:58.9 | Luisa was dreamed up along with hundreds of other social media profiles, |
| 1:03.5 | by a group of Russian digital operatives. They created Facebook profiles, |
| 1:07.6 | they shared memes, and just last week, the FBI accused them of trying to influence the midterms. |
| 1:13.2 | That's right, the election that's happening in just a couple weeks. |
| 1:17.6 | That's why Digital Security Guru Clint Watts is here. He's going to tell me what US Cyber Command, |
| 1:23.5 | which yeah, that's a thing, can actually do about all this. Plus, the criminal complaint filed |
| 1:28.9 | last week against a woman who allegedly worked for a Russian troll farm. What can that accountant |
| 1:34.7 | tell us about how these schemes work? All that and just a bit more news from the day after the |
| 1:39.8 | break. I'm Mary Harris, you're listening to what next, stay with us. |
| 1:54.4 | The full Monty Crew are back. This is going to be the greatest comeback. |
| 1:58.4 | If need strength. In a new original series, I call anybody long, me? |
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