Ben Popken

Ben Popken @bpopken

Aspects of 2016 Russian election attacks were conducted in ways that virtually guaranteed discovery. Payments and IPs that traced back to Russian state controlled entities. IRA Twitter accounts connected to Russian cellphone numbers. Former workers able to leak to press. etc — PolitiTweet.org

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"Methods of reflexive control include spreading false information, leaking partial information at opportune moments, and projecting a different posture of oneself than what may actually be the case," @anniekowalewski wrote in @GeorgetownCSS. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Reflexive control is a sustained campaign that feeds an opponent select information so that the opponent makes the decisions that one wants him/her to," wrote @anniekowalewski in the @GeorgetownCSS Review. https://t.co/LycnxF3J9f — PolitiTweet.org

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"The Iowa debacle is an example of reflexive control, not that they planned for that to happen in Iowa, but more that we've taken such actions to panic ourselves to death based on past Russian actions... still handing them victories while they do nothing," wrote @selectedwisdom — PolitiTweet.org

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And all the confusion, distrust, harmed voter confidence, in-fighting that resulted, though the paper record of caucus results are secure and hand-counted one by one. 2016, the gift that keeps on giving. — PolitiTweet.org

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If Iowa was truly self-inflicted, it may be dividend of 2016 Russian election attacks and an example of "reflexive control" in Russian military theory. Which says to strike your enemy so their response harms them. Here, building new infrastructure that failed its real world test. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mega2e: I was almost done interviewing Weinstein’s defense attorney when I decided to ask one more question: had she ever been sexually… — PolitiTweet.org

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Was really excited to start home delivery of the New York Times again. Apparently so was the delivery guy, who broke our porch window. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JasonAbbruzzese What — PolitiTweet.org

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@seanodiggity Dunno. We watched a chair login. There was no fingerprint reading. — PolitiTweet.org

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@daveweigel Due to a coding error though you won’t be able to watch until 24 hours after and then the whole debate will get compressed into a 5 minute clip. — PolitiTweet.org

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But these won’t really start having any meaningful impact until... 2023... at the earliest, experts like @eddieperezTX say, unless there’s a major change to the system. — PolitiTweet.org

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The next generation of optional federal guidelines for voting machines just nudged forward. It makes a few big chan… https://t.co/hXKEXxEjnL — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattshuham: Chris Hayes asks David Plouffe about Acronym/Shadow: https://t.co/bLIrKW2te0 — PolitiTweet.org

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Russian and Iranian news articles with some odd similarities. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @eddieperezTX: 1/ Minutes ago, @EACgov’s technical partner, NIST’s Technical Guidelines Development Committee, just unanimously voted to… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @eddieperezTX: The “modernization” of voting tech currently underway is replacing old, insecure equipment with “new” voting systems desi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @eddieperezTX: These are very different: ”Improving election security is critical because... 1) ”...things are so bad that elections a… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @eddieperezTX: Here’s another one for which a re-tweet seems timely...As we head into #protect2020, we need to be realistic about the fr… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @eddieperezTX: Lately, I keep noticing an annoying tendency among journalists of referring to paper records of voter choices as “backup”… — PolitiTweet.org

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@TruckChudmore @UnsettlingStory @BrandyZadrozny Yes it is the default Android developer icon. The iOS app had its own icon. — PolitiTweet.org

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@seanodiggity @getsentry @matthew_d_green @motherboard @auth0 @superwuster @wikileaks Sure thing, Microsoft blogged… https://t.co/ajJkn45acg — PolitiTweet.org

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@seanodiggity @getsentry @matthew_d_green @motherboard @auth0 @superwuster @wikileaks Sure thing, they announced it on their blog and there was media coverage. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BrandyZadrozny: Hi. If you work at Facebook—especially in Groups—I’d love to speak with you about this and more on or off the record. D… — PolitiTweet.org

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@seanodiggity @getsentry @matthew_d_green @motherboard @auth0 @superwuster 2016 app was made by Microsoft — PolitiTweet.org

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@seanodiggity Camera was used in-app to take pix of the caucus math worksheets and send them in — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BrandyZadrozny: Update: A Facebook spokesperson emailed a statement. “This is a tragedy and our thoughts are with his family and love… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BrandyZadrozny: A 4-year-old in Colorado died from flu this week. Days before, his mom reached out to Facebook's biggest anti-vaxx grou… — PolitiTweet.org

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There's a 70% chance of recession in next 6 months, MIT study says, using something called the Mahalanobis distance, which measures the distance between a point and a certain distribution, first used to compare human skulls. https://t.co/VVfJiPCpbg — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @oneunderscore__: @HallieJackson @bpopken Another thing I want to note: this is just where the phone number was posted on the open web.… — PolitiTweet.org