Bots Calling the Kettle Black: The Guardian accuses Pamela Geller of Fake Accounts #FakeNews

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This Guardian piece is the very definition of fake news. They claim that my tweets are magnified by 102 bots that automatically tweet or retweet my content. Bots? What bots? These are my Twitter accounts: @pamelageller, @atlasshrugs, @sioamerica, @afdi,  @sionations. @myjihadUS, @GellerReport. How highly they must think of me, that I know how to operate 102 bots! This false and defamatory article by the Guardian is simply a thinly-disguised call to Twitter to limit my platform even more than it already is.

Twitter, along with the other social media giants, hound and delete and silence and scrub the presence of those who oppose jihad terror. This article is a call to them from The Guardian to finish what they’ve started and obliterate completely my presence and the presence of others who tell the truth about Islam and jihad. This has already begun in my case in numerous ways.

Meanwhile, the claims in this article are just the opposite of reality. Newspapers such as the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Huffington Post would be out of business without the artificial stimulus provided by Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms, which links to them in their newsfeeds and trending topics. They literally get hundreds of thousands of referrals everyday. Mind you, if you search this Guardian article on Twitter, it has already been tweeted by bot accounts over 2 dozen times. There are over 48 million bots on Twitter. Twitter features them in their trending hashtags. My Twitter account, on the other hand, is shadowbanned.

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My site, by contrast, is never ever given linkage by any of these social media giants. Whatever influence I have is due to the daily sweat of my brow. They have done everything in their power to shut me down — Facebook, Google search, Google Adsense, YouTube, and even Pinterest (!). My website and posts have been scrubbed from Google search. Fourteen years and over forty thousand posts, gone. Google Adsense has banned my account. Google is blacklisting and has admitted to working with alt-left smear groups to silence opposition. Facebook has blocked my news feed. I have been blocked from uploading videos to YouTube as punishment for a 2007 video on jihad (and YouTube demonetized all of my videos). PayPal suspended me until an outpouring of condemnation and outrage forced a reversal. And it’s not just me, it’s all criticism of jihad and sharia.

The Guardian attacks those of us who cover jihad terror, and go after people whose interest in piqued in the aftermath of jihad terror attacks, as if it were somehow wrong or strange to be interested in the ideology that incites people to bombings, car rammings, mass shootings, and stabbings in the cause of Allah. The Guardian seems to believe that we are supposed to ignore all that in order to show proper respect for Islam.

The Guardian says: “Many have recorded significant growth in their social media followings over the past year, co-ordinating to push the message that Islam is an ‘imminent threat’ to western society.” Yet what I report on every day at the Geller Report is true and accurate. If there is a threat, it is coming from the Muslims who scream “Allahu akbar” while murdering the kuffar, not from me. In reality, it is the Guardian that is trying to make sure that people don’t have a sober and realistic understanding of the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat and of what is happening all around them.

“Anti-Muslim online surges driven by fake accounts,” by Mark Townsend, Guardian, November 25, 2017:

A global network of anti-Muslim activists is using Twitter bots, fake news and the manipulation of images to influence political discourse, new analysis reveals.

Many have recorded significant growth in their social media followings over the past year, co-ordinating to push the message that Islam is an “imminent threat” to western society. Researchers from the anti-racist organisation Hope Not Hate found that the impact of tweets from one controversial US activist, Pamela Geller, who is banned from the UK, is magnified by 102 bots, automated or semi-automated accounts that automatically tweet or retweet their content.

Researchers also monitored a sample of popular anti-Muslim Twitter accounts in Britain and the US between March and November this year, and found that, on average, there was a 117% growth in followers.

Geller, described by critics as a figurehead for Islamophobic organisations, produces the Geller Report, which doubled its viewers to more than two million people each month between July and October. The Gates of Vienna counter-jihadist blog, described by critics as a training manual for anti-Muslim paramilitaries, also doubled in visitors per month during the same period.

Patrik Hermansson, researcher for Hope not Hate, said: “The growth among Twitter accounts and websites spreading anti-Muslim hate is alarming. In such a key area of public interest, it is an indication of increased interest in these views and, as each account or site grows, more people are exposed to deeply prejudiced anti-Muslim views.”

The study also charts how terror attacks in the UK have been exploited by anti-Muslim activists over social media, with several prominent anti-Muslim Twitter accounts in the UK acquiring a significant number of followers in their aftermath.

During the hours and days following the Manchester attack, Tommy Robinson, former leader of the English Defence League (EDL), gained 40,042 followers, an increase of 17%, with the majority – 29,396 – coming within 48 hours of the attack. Robinson gained 22,365 after the Westminster attack: he had a weekly average increase of 6,422 followers from March to November 2017.

The aftermath of the London Bridge attack in June was used to illustrate how anti-Muslim activists took advantage, with 32 of the top 100 most shared tweets about the attack expressing negative sentiments about Muslims.

The study also accuses Breitbart, run by Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon, of spreading fake news, stating that “its reporting on Islam and Muslims is largely indistinguishable from the anti-Muslim movement’s rhetoric or even that of the far right”.

The study says a network of online forums and image boards serves as an echo chamber to amplify and spread fabricated anti-Muslim social media campaigns. The most notorious recent example was the exploitation of a photograph of a Muslim woman walking past a group of people helping a victim of the Westminster attack in March 2017.

The image gained traction after a Twitter user called @Southlonestar claimed the image revealed the woman’s indifference to the victim being treated. It was recently revealed that @Southlonestar was one of 2,700 accounts handed over to the US House Intelligence Committee by Twitter as a fake account created in Russia to influence UK and US politics.

The image of the Muslim woman – who has since spoken of her distress at the attack and the abuse she suffered afterwards – was later superimposed on pictures after the Manchester attack.

Researchers claim in their report that bots were employed to amplify Geller’s messages on Twitter, identifying at least 102 accounts that exhibit characteristics of bots, including only exclusively posting content with links to Geller’s website and being highly synchronised, meaning they post the same content at almost the same time….

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Hans
Hans
6 years ago

This is good news, you only start getting flack once your over the target, they are getting worried. I read this story in the paper so now people who have not seen the name Pamela Geller may google her and learn a little more about Islam. Remember Nigel Ferage never won one seat in parliament but the UK is still leaving the EU. The more they attack the more people will hear about Pamela. Well done.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  Hans

Agree. They are bowing down so much they are well on their way to creating more humgoats http://bit.ly/2iMxEZt

And call it cultural diversity !

UnderzogD
Underzog
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Some of the “flack” can be very very ugly. I received a lede on facebook of Wbur. WBUR is a Boston University NPR station that stated words to the effect that decapitating our heroine is “the new normal.” I wrote a small reply criticizing WBUR for its snooty callousness and I got a reply that essentially said it was good to get rid of “knuckle draggers.” I wrote back that as a Leftists and a woman (or at least I think it was a woman) that she will not be spared by her head chopping heroes. The point is that things are very very ugly and bad!

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  Underzog

Liked your last reply to her. point them what they can expect in future. if possible send them links to rape /murder by jihadis in EU and around the world like http://bit.ly/2tTQW4b

most of them are ignorant of what kind of future they are inviting by foolishly supporting leftist/jihadi idealogy.

That’s how effective Left/Liberal /jihadis have been with funds from saudi/OIC , soros and other sick loons

Leslie
Leslie
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

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Kalambong Kalambong
6 years ago
Reply to  Hans

Bellyaching — that is essentially what Guardian is doing

They bellyache because there is nothing they can do about their own falling fate

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Agreed. They go after Pamela with a meat ax but make zero mention that the current issue of the raghead online propaganda magazine carries detailed instructions on how to sabotage the US rail system.

Jennifer
Jennifer
6 years ago

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Trump can't ban islam
Trump can't ban islam
6 years ago
Reply to  Hans

mohammad has two billions followers and muslims will become the mayority in the world. islam will dominate

VTSD
VTS
6 years ago

It looks like soon one billion will murder the other and then half a billion will murder another half and so on and on, until no troglodytes left.

Midnattsol
Midnattsol
6 years ago

In the next issue of the Guardian: “How Jewish kittens killed the Dinosaurs.”

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

The guardian is another in the parade of media chimpanzees who are desperately trying to get attention. The fools do not realize that they are grovelling to an audience that is not inclined to patronize businesses that advertise on them. By censoring, thus eliminating potentially customers, the guardian and its ilk are accelerating their launch to oblivion.

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

Emotional Video Sheik Abu Tauba teaching in USA
Please, hold the handkerchiefs ready

@Guardian… tears will falling! –1:50 ‘… ALL we have to do is surrender’ … as a slave of Allah 53:10
http://schnellmann.org/emotional-video.html

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

Saudi Clown Prince: “Biggest danger of ‘terror’ism https://quran.com/8/12-17
and extremism https://quran.com/3/141 -> 8/17 is tarnishing of reputation(?) of our BELOVED religion” https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/11/saudi-crown-prince-biggest-danger-of-terrorism-and-extremism-is-tarnishing-of-reputation-of-our-beloved-religion

CAPTAIN
CAPTAIN
6 years ago

In the next issue of the Guardian: “How Jewish kittens killed the Dinosaurs.”

Ari
Ari
6 years ago

Once again the MS media misleads the public.
An Al Jazeera TV news presenter (arabic) in the picture.
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Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
6 years ago

oh my, bots? I found 2 suspects 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ijsa4iYNxk

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

49 minutes of that horrrible droning. How insufferable.

Tom Validakis
Tom Validakis
6 years ago

Pamelageller.com v Guardian.com
1. Pamelageller.com has public comment facilities that never close. Guardian.com only have public comments for select articles and the comments are only open for a very limited time.
2. Pamelageller.com has never compromised anyone. Guardian.com sold out and compromised Julian Assange. #SNEAKYSNEAKY
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/02/the-guardian-201102
3. Pamelageller.com pages reveal George Soros is the enemy.
http://b1ff5939f6.nxcli.net/?s=George+soros
In the guardian nationals are the enemy and Soros is a great guy and they are pushing the Islamisation of the UK agenda.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/15/dirty-tricks-demonise-george-soros
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/12/britain-overcrowded-rubbish-weve-got-loads-of-land
4. Pamelageller.com is fighting for freedom and The guardian.com is fighting for tyrrany.

The Guardian article basically says the use of bots are okay as long as it serves the demands of dhimmi lefties I suppose the same goes for social media too.

Best of luck and God bless Pamela Geller.

Jackie Puppet
Jackie Puppet
6 years ago

Next time I see this pop-up from the Guardian, I may have to send the link from this article to explain why I don’t support them:

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can. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to
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Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago

The grauniard is a piece of leftist crap and it makes pravda and the tribune look honest. Noteworthy of their claim to “open Journalism” is the deliberate refusal to host comments most of the time as when they do the overwhelming majority take them to task and disagree with their claims. Certainly you still have your hard core, brain-dead leftists posting there but their concept of debate rarely rises past character assassination attempts as most of them while well indoctrinated , know nothing in fact.
ANY insult from this leftist toilet roll is a Compliment. Do note how they beg for subscriptions and seeing as I have been blacklisted by them for well over a decade I find this so mollifying.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Those in politics and the media who seek to hamper the First Amendment liberties of Pamela and others need to be reminded that the constitutional liberties that allow her to operate are the very same liberties that allow political discourse and the media to even exist in the first place.

Notice how this article takes pains to point out a 2 million account increase for Pamela in the months between July and October without mentioning that this period is popularly called “the fighting season” when jihadi activity on the battlefield and in major cities is at its peak.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
6 years ago

I’m not on facebook, twitter or anything. I do have emails, but then again, I’m am so old that I’ve forgotten so much that I had to move my brain storage to my gut, and that is why it is so big!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEWnXmDfVZg

michaelofsydney
michaelofsydney
6 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

That was fun

Achmed
Achmed
6 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

TOO funny, Sunshine Kid. That was absolutely hilarious. Thank you for sharing.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

Translation: He is normal. LOL.

Mike E
Mike E
6 years ago

The Guardian is British socialists answer to the ‘Der Stürmer’ or ‘Völkischer Beobachter’. Nothing is too low if it just denounces and attacks the Jews and Israel. Just like national- (Germany) & international (Soviet) socialism, The Guardian is closely allied to even the worst groups of Muslims like Hamas in its hatred towards the Jews and Israel.

Larenzo1
Larenzo1
6 years ago

Why do I believe that Mr. Townsend may be getting a payout from some muslim?? How can he read his own words with out busting out laughing.

Laurence Jarvik
Laurence Jarvik
6 years ago

Sue them for libel under UK law, that would also force UK to admit you for the trial, ending your ban…you could use the settlement for bus ads in London for FATWA…UK law much stricter than in US re libel, ask your lawyer…

Mark Huber
Mark Huber
6 years ago

Sue for defamation of character, slander, etc.

Achmed
Achmed
6 years ago

On the “fake” terrorist attack, one important point seems to not even bring casual mention, with the exception of a few comments on Ms. Geller’s site. When this was an incident of two individuals having a “disagreement”, it went to the point that the police “tweeted” (whatever in the hell that is) that they were treating it as a potential terrorist attack. Moreover, the videos show a great number of police dispatched, some carrying long arms. In addition, the police actually cleared the station, telling people to go above ground and to seek shelter in shops. Videos showed people running and scrambling as if they were terror stricken (no relation to a “terror” attack). The area was cordoned off and those seeking entry were banned, from such, by the police.
OK … Why does an incident of two individuals having a disagreement trigger such a heavy police response and their following strong actions? And, this is coming from a city, wherein the police are too burdened to even make a call, much less file a report and commence an investigation for theft, such as shoplifting, vandalism, graffiti, and a host of other “minor complaints”.

Jim
Jim
6 years ago

When I want to know what communists are thinking, I turn to The (so-called) Guardian.

Jim
Jim
6 years ago

Or filter by MAC address.

martin jenkins
martin jenkins
6 years ago

Guardian left wing fascist propaganda. Like most left wing agitators they believe in freedom of speech as long as it does not conflict with their own agenda; then its abuse of free speech! I have tried multiple times to comment on left wing fake news articles with factual content that can be authenticated with the click of a mouse. The guardian, like the BBC etc simply delete them.
The majority of the free thinking World understand the issues with Islam and its onerous progress into all our lives. Thank goodness people like Pamela continue to spell out the truth against those that clearly are working towards Islamic governance for us all.

Badger
Badger
6 years ago

Sue the bastards

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago

Bottomline: The Left is pro-Jihad and pro-Sharia.

Principally this comes from the top, which is heavily financed by the Arab ‘Islamophobes’ who apparently don’t realize that Islam is a religion of peace. But …

It’s only a flyby over the top of the iceberg.

But it also comes from the nearly universal layer of Useful Idiots in Academia, Education, Government, and – yes, for all the Libertarians out there – at C-level in virtually all publicly traded corporations. All of these minions of – guess who? – are ‘down with the cause,’ which is Left-bonics for holding an ignorant bias for anti-Civilization, anti-Non-Violent Cultures, anti-Family, anti-Normal, and anti-God views. They are not reflective, introspective, or humble, but they are arrogant, conceited, selfish, and nihilistic. … I’m sure anyone with a modicum of experience with these people not only has their words and descriptors, but also their own horror stories.

Among my favorites: The State epidemiologist I caught falsifying an AIDS database to ‘correct’ for anti-Gay bias. The Chinese spies – working on OUR dime – caught literally red handed. The Chinese engineers we trained – laughing at us for struggling along on our measly salaries while they lived like kings thanks to foreign exchange. Patricia Ireland trying to defend abortion. A Democratic Governor caught falsifying data on an oil spill – to advance his campaign against exploratory drilling. A Democratic Governor who couldn’t tell the difference between mercury pollution in the air and mercury pollution in the water – and went on to put a nurse in charge of air pollution and a lawyer in charge of water pollution. … And on and on and on.

By the time we get to my pro-bono days, the numbers start really racking up: Three rapes, a dozen burglaries, dozens of robberies, a hundred plus illegal felons guilty of these crimes plus domestic violence, child abuse, and child molesting – and we got nothing on many of them. I had to pull my bar card and send letters demanding incident reports, and threatening depositions to just get the cases acknowledged for my clients.

The Left is pro-violence – just as they always have been. They are willing to subject their targets and their constituents to violence to generate the angst, the complaints, the fear, and the hatred that results. And then they denounce anyone who complains or demands that government do its job – or just that businesses have to be fair and level the playing field between Left-wing lies and opposing views. They demonize, denigrate, and dehumanize anyone who isn’t ‘down with their cause’ of inflicting violence on children, the sick, the elderly, the poor, the working stiffs – and especially that part of the middle class that makes its living by working harder and smarter than the Left could or would.

Don’t let the Left fool you – they are not only disinformed by their own Useful Idiots, propped up by obsequious sycophants nursing their narcissism, but they are also stupid. I’ve dealt with many of them in HIGH places, including one that went all the way to DC for Obama – and they are not that smart. The only place they can shine intellectually is in the bathroom – when they’re alone.

Upshot: Being censored by Leftists and Islamists and all of their fellow travelers is an honor and a privilege.

Yes, we do fret about all the souls destroyed by the unlimited, unbridled, unrestrained onslaught of Left-nazism and Islam, but remember they are all martyrs, and their suffering will not go uncompensated forever.

God bless Pamela, and God bless her fans …

VTSD
VTS
6 years ago

I hope what they say is true and Pamela’s influence grows up and up! Truth needs to be heard despite the efforts of anti-liberal left wing clowns and islamists. Keep up a good work!

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

Pamela is certainly very determined and outspoken as an American seeking justice for those targeted by terror, but she does not at all strike me as the sort of person who would be secretly manipulating bots to increase Twitter views — on the contrary, she is both blunt and forthright, and refreshingly so.

Richard Harris
Richard Harris
6 years ago

It’s absolutely disgusting that the “Guardian” “newspaper” tries to destroy an American patriot like Pamela. Everything the Guardian newspaper accuses Pamela of….they THEMSELVES are guilty of. The Guardian is filled with PREJUDICE & HATRED for trying to CENSOR an American patriot who merely wants to exercise her free speech and spread awareness of the dangers of Islamic Fundamentalism….which is destroying the fabric of Western nations that Muslim migrants invade….I mean…occupy….I mean…. move to.

It’s no coincidence that Muslim terrorism GROWS in Western countries that see a higher growth of Muslim migration. This is a FACT that Pamela merely points out…..and for this the Leftist Supremacists at the Guardian viciously attack Pamela. IF ONLY the Guardian had the same outrage at Muslims creating chaos and violence in Western nations that they have for Pamela. But it’s doubtful this will ever happen since they very much appear to have an agenda to ENABLE the destruction of Western culture via Muslim migration. NO WONDER the Guardian barely if ever reports on the Muslim violence in their home nation Britain and the rest of Western Europe. They appear to tacitly support and enjoy the Islamic destruction of Britain/Western Europe. As shown in this video

Welcome to the Jungle of Third World migrant Western Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=743SpnpLji8

freepetta
freepetta
6 years ago

It’s a blessing they accuse you of fake news. We know who passes fake news and out right lies and IT’S NOT Pamela Geller!!

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