Russia, China, and Iran are escalating online influence efforts ahead of US election, says Microsoft

[godrilla]

First, your understanding needs to go beyond what FOX News and Right-Wing outlets tells you...for starters a Vice-President in the USA has almost no power other than being the tie-breaking vote in the Senate, aside from that a Vice-President would be rebelling against what the president mandates such it was the case with Mike Pence rebelling against Trump in approving Joe Biden's Presidency.....

Harris has handled those comments well enough for respect to President Biden because good or bad ALL the decisions she made in the last 4 years were under his command....You know the saying "there can only be one Captain in the ship."

So next time you hear those comments, you are now a bit more informed of the real truth.

About the Republican Campaign being Cyber "attacked"....let's think for a second, out of the two parties which one is the most likely to get cyber attacked by those countries?....The Democrats, correct?...and who do you think has more potential damaging information about the Democrats?...The Republican Campaign....So it's only obvious that these hackers tried to get strategic information from both parties through the Republicans to ultimately hurt Kamela Harris campaign.....

Or do you really think Iran, Russia, or China would ever want to hurt the chances of the only USA president in history that sees them as "friends".

It doesn't take a scientist to see through the smoke and mirrors...it only takes common sense....

Fox news? No I take her own words when asked what are you going to do different. She says nothing. Lol Fox news. I lothe corporate owned media no matter the partisan bias!
Some are openly admitting their confirmation bias is more important than anything!

 

[Burty117]

I guess nobody wants to talk about the influence of the Labor party sending both donations and support personnel to the Democrat party?

It's only "election interference" if the Bad Guys do it.

At least it’s been interfered by the UK on both sides, Nigel Farage has been up on stage with Trump.

Why the UK is even bothering getting involved at all though, no idea.

 

[The Talking Tech]

It's not putting people down when the facts are clear as water....someone to make things clear for others to understand.

 

[JupitersMoon]

Pop quiz who owns MSNBC? I guess we should also just ignore that Harris is part of the the current administration that the unrest is cluster fudging under now.
So China wants Trump to win so he can raise Tarrifs?
Iran wants Trump to win so he can sanction them to a crawl like last time?
Putin wants Trump to win so that he has a greater unpredictable adversary to deal with?

If Trump is going to make make America compete with energy against Russia and Iran this is why they are against him. If China is against higher tarrifs this is why they are against Trump.


Also last month Microsoft said that Iran was targeting the Trump campaign servers allegedly.

This is the same Microsoft that was begging for a government contract to the the word watch dog for the whole internet.
The source is biased and has a conflict of interest !

Finally someone with some common sense.

 

[JupitersMoon]

I didn't have to when Obama campaigning for her says it all. Like a damsel in distress he is showing that he will be the default decision maker as it was the past 4 years. Questions?
Do we really have to get triggered by putting other people down when you don't agree with them or can we be civil here?

Bingo!

 

[OortCloud]

Russia want to sew chaos in the west.
To give you an idea of how low they are willing to go and how completely morally repugnant Putin has become they are now sending Wagner groups into Africa and trying to inflict as much chaos and misery in those countries just to cause migration in order to destabilise Europe.

 

[JupitersMoon]

Fox news? No I take her own words when asked what are you going to do different. She says nothing. Lol Fox news. I lothe corporate owned media no matter the partisan bias!
Some are openly admitting their confirmation bias is more important than anything!

CNN, MSBC, Bloomberg, ABC, and CBS are all left wing media outlets. Unfortunately most Americans lack independent and critical thinking to realize the bias that being pushed through these mainstream media outlets owned by Democrats. At this point it is propaganda with how biased the new is these days. Just look at how manufactured Kamala Harris campaign has been this whole time. A VP who recently had a 28% approval rating all of a sudden is America's Sweet Heart and has a shot to become POTUS? 100% manufactured by the media.

 

[raydpratt007]

Bill Gates does not seem to be a terribly interested supporter of political causes. He seems to be more of a tech guy until politics affects his interests. Yet, he just donated 50 million dollars to the Harris campaign.

Similarly, Sheldon Adelson, a Las Vegas casino owner and the owner of an Israeli news outlet, donated 100 million dollars to Trump's first campaign.

Because I cannot imagine a billionaire like Adelson donating 100 million dollars of his own money to an unproven, first-time politician like Trump, I came to suspect that Israel launders money through wealthy persons and organizations to support political candidates that it wants to put into power.

I have noted similar scenarios such as Fox News employing Robert Bolton as a consultant for a large sum of money. Bolton is a middling attorney with no notable successes in court. His is essentialy worthless, but he was paid and promoted to the highest levels of power.

Another oddity was that Alex Acosta, the former federal prosecutor who gave Jeffrey Epstein a 'sweetheart' deal of part-time incarceration, was later appointed by Trump, a friend of Epstein, to be the US Secretary of Labor. There is nothing in Alex Acosta's background that would make him a logical choice for that position, but somebody wanted him in that position of power.

I have come to suspect that Israel launders large sums of money through wealthy persons and entities to support political candidates of its choice and that Israel blackmails many of these people with Epstein videos.

I am concerned that Bill Gates donated 50 million dollars of money funneled through him because he is a blackmail victim who was associated with Epstein.

Strangely enough, Israel may be supporting both candidates because they will both support censorship of pro-Palestinian voices and will curtail public criticism of Israel. I suspect that the Microsoft Threat Assessment Center spews out scaremongering propaganda like water flowing out of a pipe.

My inferences have some obvious deficiencies, but there is enough there to cause me some concern about Israel's control over our political processes.

 

[Luay]

This article reminds me of a classic anecdote. Picture a well-dressed gentleman at an elite gathering who, noticing an attractive lady, asks if she’d consider spending the night with him for an extravagant sum. After some thought, she agrees, intrigued by the offer. Then he slyly lowers the amount, asking if she’d still agree for a dollar. Offended, she retorts, “What do you think I am?” He replies, “We’ve already established that you are a wh**e; now we’re just negotiating the price.”

This story highlights an uncomfortable truth about moral boundaries and what politicians are willing to accept when the stakes shift. It’s a fitting metaphor for the current influence campaigns. When some entities like AIPAC are openly dabbling in "disinformation," they rush to deny their role or downplay their actions, only to ramp up their efforts when the stakes rise — just like the “gentleman” in the story.

In the same way, the influence operations from Russia, China, and Iran exploit these blurred lines in information integrity, testing what the public is willing to believe or ignore when the “price” of influence shift higher in an election year. Like the woman in the story, these politicians test boundaries, pushing to see how far influence can go before it’s recognized, questioned, or outright rejected. And while the public might feel offended by such influence, it's a reminder that real topic of debate, like it or not, is how much influence is "acceptable", rather than rejecting it altogether.