Author: Unhackthevote

In Oct. 2017, a programmer found a GitHub repository with a cambridgeanalytica.org email address. The repository has since been emptied; but we were able to access an archived version.

During the 2016 Presidential election, we were besieged with fake news, bots, data mining, and micro-targeted ads. We know it had an effect.

Cambridge Analytica’s Molly Schweickert—to the contrary of most media outlets and experts—claimed that their data showed a high probability of a Trump win. So, where was Cambridge Analytica getting getting its data?

In 2017, DHS warned at least 21 states that their voter registration databases were targeted a year prior by Russian government hackers.

You can keep your online identity from being stolen and misused—at little to no cost.

A Twitter botnet pushed messaging in support of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court—making it appear as if he had more support than he did.

The attackers hit Illinois’ election system at 5 times
per second until August 12, 2016. That is 5 times per second for 7 weeks!

How an army of Twitter bots participated in opposition rhetoric toward Al Franken.

The Jane Austen Twitter Bots is a group of Twitter bots that regularly tweet phrases from Jane Austen literature. But these accounts are far from harmless.

We discovered hundreds of related and similarly automated Twitter accounts with tentacles deep into Twitter’s users. One so massive that we gave it a name. The Reffy Botnet.

With easy entry on multiple platforms and the ability to create many fake accounts, scammers are given ample feeding ground.

This new Twitter botnet is different from those that have previously been identified. It’s currently tweeting anti-Trump propaganda.

I keep hearing that everyone vets their followers. But, if everyone was truly vetting, then how is there a MAGA troll running FBR for the Resistance on Twitter?

In an entirely partisan decision, the US Supreme Court ruled that Ohio–and all states–can purge voters if they haven’t voted in two years.

Just like in France, a “Yellow Vest” revolt is being pushed on social media. For America.

Why is Twitter allowing fake North Carolina state and county Twitter accounts to spread alt-right disinformation?

Why are our Voter Registration databases so vulnerable?

While nearly 500,000 voters were added to the rolls in the 7 months prior to the 2016 elections, fewer than 100,000 new addresses were added during the same time period.

Just when you think it can’t get any worse—more anomalies.

As we looked at the lists of elderly and very young voters, we noticed something extraordinary. A few of these voters were listed twice, with identical information.