PC Magazine - USA (2020-04)

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For our next move, we used our botnet to send out fake warnings that polls were
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a protest moving through the same district, we sought to stretch the police even
thinner. For our development, we began work on a phony video that showed a
voting machine malfunctioning.


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particular candidate. When the White Team informed us that early results
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favor Republicans. Now, our goal was not to get a particular candidate elected,
but we thought we could create maximum discord by tying our chaos to the
election’s natural frontrunner. If we could taint the reputation of the election’s
winner, our mission would be success.


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district, which led to violence in some polling places. We also gained control of
the mayor and governor’s Facebook pages.


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appearance of favoring a particular party. On the mayor’s Facebook page, we
posted a falses claim that undocumented immigrants were voting illegally in
large numbers and that voters would need additional ID in order to cast their
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a hitch.

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