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The second article is full of errors and false interpretations: https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1121229047760027648

You should read the report

The entire case does not rest on "IP address". Did you read the rest of the document?

The details are documented. They followed the paper trail created by all of the shell corporations and financial transactions used to fund this $1.25M/month operation, had testimony from witnesses involved in the conspiracy to the Grand Jury, and evidence from stealing the identities of US citizens to commit bank fraud. It also lists 12 specific people behind the operation including what role they played (travel to US, purchasing IT equipment, etc). This begins on page 5.

Here's a particularly relevant excerpt from page 24: 58. In order to avoid detection and impede investigation by U.S. authorities of Defendants' operations, Defendants and their co-conspirators deleted and destroyed data, including emails, social media accounts, and other evidence of their activities.

a. Beginning in or around June 2014, and continuing into June 2015, public reporting began to identify operations conducted by the ORGANIZATION in the United States. In response, Defendants and their co-conspirators deleted email accounts used to conduct their operations.

b. Beginning in or around September 2017, U.S. social media companies, starting with Facebook, publicly reported that they had identified Russian expenditures on their platforms to fund political and social advertisements. Facebook's initial disclosure of the Russian purchases occurred on or about September 6, 2017, and included a statement that Facebook had "shared [its] findings with US authorities investigating these issues."

c. Media reporting on or about the same day as Facebook's disclosure referred to Facebook working with investigators for the Special Counsel's Office of the U.S. Department of Justice, which had been charged with investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

d. Defendants and their co-conspirators thereafter destroyed evidence for the purpose of impeding the investigation. On or about September 13, 2017, K.AVERZINA wrote in an email to a family member: "We had a slight crisis here at work: the FBI busted our activity (not a joke). So, I got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the colleagues." KAVERZINA further wrote, "I created all these pictures and posts, and the Americans believed that it was written by their people."

Who is "everyone" in "everyone takes at face value with zero second thought"? and where is the resistance "to a simple request for evidence rather than allegations is in matters within the political realm, objectivity will soon be a thing of the past if we keep going like this."

Who is taking them at face value and who is resistant to a simple request for evidence? Straw man and a hasty generalization.

I've been engaging with you in good faith. Are you doing the same? Read the documents I've shared. You're exhibiting the behavior of a troll.

this document describes the conspiracy of Concord Management.

Before we begin, I'd like to quote the first line of the document: "The Grand Jury for the District of Columbia charges: "

https://www.popehat.com/2017/08/07/lawsplainer-how-federal-g...

From former Assistant United States Attorney of the Central District of California, Ken White:

"A grand jury is a group of citizens brought together to determine whether to bring criminal charges against someone suspected of a crime. ... The Fifth Amendment says "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury . . . ." So, the Constitution requires that the federal government get an indictment from a federal grand jury before charging you with a federal felony."

Page 16-19 have particularly relevant evidence, beginning with the title 'Actions Targeting the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election'. I encourage you to read the whole document as it provides context about who the Defendants are alleged

Page 18 has a relevant section I'd like to highlight regarding suppressing voter turnout.

"In or around the latter half of 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, through their ORGANIZATION-controlled personas, began to encourage U.S. minority groups not to vote in the 2016 U.S. presidential election or to vote for a third-party U.S. presidential candidate.

a. On or about October 16, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the ORGANIZATION-controlled Instagram account "Woke Blacks" to post the following message: "[A] particular hype and hatred for Trump is misleading the people and forcing Blacks to vote Killary. We cannot resort to the lesser of two devils. Then we'd surely be better off without voting AT ALL."

b. On or about November 3, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators purchased an advertisement to promote a post on the ORGANIZATION-controlled Instagram account "Blacktivist" that read in part: "Choose peace and vote for Jill Stein. Trust me, it's not a wasted vote." c. By in or around early November 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the ORGANIZATION-controlled "United Muslims of America" social media accounts to post anti-vote messages such as: "American Muslims [are] boycotting elections today, most of the American Muslim voters refuse to vote for Hillary Clinton because she wants to continue the war on Muslims in the middle east and voted yes for invading Iraq."

The tail end of Page 18 but mostly Page 19 has relevant evidence to sowing election disinformation:

"Starting in or around the summer of 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators also began to promote allegations of voter fraud by the Democratic Party through their fictitious U.S. personas and groups on social media. Defendants and their co-conspirators purchased advertisements on Facebook to further promote the allegations.

a. On or about August 4, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators began purchasing advertisements that promoted a post on the ORGANIZATION-controlled Facebook account "Stop A.I." The post alleged that "Hillary Clinton has already committed voter fraud during the Democrat Iowa Caucus."

b. On or about August 11, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators posted that allegations of voter fraud were being investigated in North Carolina on the ORGANIZATION-controlled Twitter account@TEN_GOP.

c. On or about November 2, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the same account to post allegations of "#VoterFraud by counting tens of thousands of ineligible mail in Hillary votes being reported in Broward County, Florida."

The indictment of Concord Management: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1035562/downl... - Discusses the efforts conducted to sow election disinformation, suppress voter turnout

The indictment of the accountant of Concord Management: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1102316/downl... - additional details provided relating to above case

The indictment of 12 GRU Hackers, who were named and identified by their specific address. https://www.justice.gov/file/1080281/download - Discusses GRU social engineering to access election machines and state officials

There has also been election fraud/tampering that has occurred by domestic forces in NC: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/investigation-n-c...