/pol/ hijacks NASA poll because black women were in it

[The South Falls]

This is all troll's fault, and arguing about it will get us to a point where we will become trolls ourselves.

/thread

[Underdark Cave]

A group of people who hide anonymously who most likely have extreme right wing views.

Why does accountability hold back judging whether or not a group of people who did a thing is shit?

Anonymity is a great thing. And only /pol/ has extreme right wing views.

[Underdark Cave]

That's hilarious.

What about it, specifically?

How simple and petty it is.
It's hilarious how such a stupid thing warrants an article on CNN and a """"""CNN investigation"""""

[Rostavykhan]

Still waiting for some Gushing Granny Mtn. Dew

Indeed.

I want Fapple, personally.

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

*head desk*

The ones used where examples, place any group name you want there and the point is clear.

It does make a difference though. A site filled with trolls and edgelords mostly used for posting dank memes is probably not that trustworthy on its intentions.

So why is there so much Pepe at alt right rallys? Maybe beacuse the alt right scuz balls at /pol/ took it as a puppet and went to rally with it beacuse they are serious about there inane bullshit?

[Telconi]

It does make a difference though. A site filled with trolls and edgelords mostly used for posting dank memes is probably not that trustworthy on its intentions.

So why is there so much Pepe at alt right rallys? Maybe beacuse the alt right scuz balls at /pol/ took it as a puppet and went to rally with it beacuse they are serious about there inane bullshit?

Who cares?

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

This is CNN.

Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner and Bria Snell, from left, are finalists in a NASA science contest.
(CNN)Three teenagers came up with an innovative way to clean lead-contaminated drinking water in public schools -- an idea so smart it made the finals of NASA's coveted nationwide high-school science competition.

The trio -- the only all-female, all-black group in the finals -- engineered a filter that purifies drinking water in old public-school buildings by detecting impurities such as chlorine, copper, and bromine.
But when NASA opened the contest to online voting, users from 4chan, the image-based online bulletin board, launched a campaign to hack the results, forcing NASA to shut down the voting.
It's a disheartening speed bump in the otherwise inspiring story of Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner and Bria Snell, three 11th graders at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, D.C.
"In older structured homes and buildings, lead pipes have been an issue in the media. In D.C. they're currently renovating many public schools," they said in a statement. "As a result, we have a mission to be a part of the community activism and history in the making. Our water filtration system can help aid in that mission."
Student Bria Snell working on the team's water-filtration project.
Student Bria Snell working on the team's water-filtration project.
After the nomination, the Banneker students started campaigning on social media to attract support for their project in the public voting stage.
"Public voting starts today and we need YOUR vote! We are the only team from the east coast & female minority group!" Sharrieff said in an April 23 tweet.
"Hidden figures in the making," Snell tweeted, a reference to the 2016 movie "Hidden Figures," the unsung true story of African-American female mathematicians who worked at NASA in the golden era of space exploration.
However, some users of 4chan's "politically incorrect" board (abbreviated as /pol/), where hoaxes and conspiracy theories often originate, complained the teens were getting a lot of votes because they were black and spearheaded an effort to torpedo their campaign.
A CNN analysis of 4chan/pol/ uncovered several threads urging users to vote for a team of teenage boys instead, using anonymous privacy software to hack the voting system. Some /pol/ users posted racist insults and urged members to spread the campaign to other 4chan boards.
NASA said in a statement to CNN it had to "end public voting to protect the integrity of the results" after hackers attempted to change the vote totals.
They did the math: How NASA's black mathematicians multiplied success
They did the math: How NASA's black mathematicians multiplied success
"Unfortunately, it was brought to NASA's attention yesterday that some members of the public used social media, not to encourage students ... but to attack a particular student team based on their race and encourage others to disrupt the contest and manipulate the vote ... the attempt to manipulate the vote occurred shortly after those posts," read the statement, issued Monday.
"NASA continues to support outreach and education for all Americans, and encourages all of our children to reach for the stars."
CNN has been unable to reach the three students for comment.
On Twitter the students have posted NASA's statement on the voting, along with a message thanking people for their support.
NASA said it has an accurate record of the voting results before the disruption occurred. A panel of judges this month will choose the winners, who will be invited to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland for two days of workshops with scientists and astronauts. Each winning team will also receive $4,000.
The three teens were coached and helped with their project by mentors at the Inclusive Innovation Incubator in Washington, a community space which combines science, technology and social inclusion.
The Incubator said in a statement to CNN that the students are seeing "positive outcomes" for the NASA challenge, despite the attempts to corrupt the results.
"The ladies are ecstatic about the experience and opportunity the NASA challenge provided," it said. "While it is true they had amazing community support in the popular public voting, the challenge is focused on the delivery of the scientific exploration ... Win or lose -- the girls met their goals and will wish the final winner congratulations."

Surprising nobody, /pol/ continues to be shit by downvoting black women's work beacuse they were black women.

But what say you NSG?

Going to repost the op right here.

Notice that I said that only /POL/ did it. Not once did I claim that all of 4chan is /pol/. But that /POL/ did this alone.

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

So why is there so much Pepe at alt right rallys? Maybe beacuse the alt right scuz balls at /pol/ took it as a puppet and went to rally with it beacuse they are serious about there inane bullshit?

Who cares?

Because if there intentions where "just 4 t3h luz" then why do they seriously believe it?

[Ceolophysia]

It does make a difference though. A site filled with trolls and edgelords mostly used for posting dank memes is probably not that trustworthy on its intentions.

So why is there so much Pepe at alt right rallys? Maybe beacuse the alt right scuz balls at /pol/ took it as a puppet and went to rally with it beacuse they are serious about there inane bullshit?

Because Pepe is a funny meme and the alt right is mostly younger people. Also, what do you consider alt-right? Are basic Trump supporters, who also use Pepe, on the same level as serious neo-nazis? Because the term is very loosely applied to both and everything in between.

[The Portland Territory]

What about it, specifically?

How simple and petty it is.
It's hilarious how such a stupid thing warrants an article on CNN and a """"""CNN investigation"""""

kekekek, if this is an investigation then I shall be NS's in-house witness

Racism was involved in many of their decisions, quite obviously, however the primary reason was the teenage boy's initials spelling DJT

Also, while I am not sure about this, there was a sort of conspiracy going on in the threads. For a solid....... 20 minutes I believe, the black girls received about 100 votes a minute. Many thought this was quite suspicious and wondered if someone used scripts to do such a task.

Then someone went to those unknown Asian hacking forums to see if they could do anything, kek

[Crockerland]

But when NASA opened the contest to online voting, users from 4chan, the image-based online bulletin board, launched a campaign to hack the results, forcing NASA to shut down the voting.

A CNN analysis of 4chan/pol/ uncovered several threads urging users to vote for a team of teenage boys instead, using anonymous privacy software to hack the voting system. Some /pol/ users posted racist insults and urged members to spread the campaign to other 4chan boards.
NASA said in a statement to CNN it had to "end public voting to protect the integrity of the results" after hackers attempted to change the vote totals.

So /pol/ piss patrol "hacked" NASA, using privacy software? And NASA fixed the "hack" by just shutting off public voting?

[Telconi]

Who cares?

Because if there intentions where "just 4 t3h luz" then why do they seriously believe it?

They probably don't, and even if they do why does it matter?

[The Lone Alliance]

They likely did it because they knew it would trigger people.

See if it had been a poll of nothing but white people, no one would have cared if /pol/ had rigged it aside from maybe a tiny sub note of it, but because everything is about racial oppression these days, /pol/ got a free chance to get some more publicity.

Oh yeah, keeg I remember this, may or may not have helped a bit

"RAYCIZM" is not reason why /pol/ infiltrated this poll. What CNN fails to do is actually lurk the fucking threads. Rather, the primary reason was because the initials of each teenage boy's names spelt "DJT". If I recall, I believe one or two of the boys were also supporters of Trump. It was mostly a newfig/ pede initiative

This I can believe too.

[The Portland Territory]

This is CNN.

Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner and Bria Snell, from left, are finalists in a NASA science contest.
(CNN)Three teenagers came up with an innovative way to clean lead-contaminated drinking water in public schools -- an idea so smart it made the finals of NASA's coveted nationwide high-school science competition.

The trio -- the only all-female, all-black group in the finals -- engineered a filter that purifies drinking water in old public-school buildings by detecting impurities such as chlorine, copper, and bromine.
But when NASA opened the contest to online voting, users from 4chan, the image-based online bulletin board, launched a campaign to hack the results, forcing NASA to shut down the voting.
It's a disheartening speed bump in the otherwise inspiring story of Mikayla Sharrieff, India Skinner and Bria Snell, three 11th graders at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, D.C.
"In older structured homes and buildings, lead pipes have been an issue in the media. In D.C. they're currently renovating many public schools," they said in a statement. "As a result, we have a mission to be a part of the community activism and history in the making. Our water filtration system can help aid in that mission."
Student Bria Snell working on the team's water-filtration project.
Student Bria Snell working on the team's water-filtration project.
After the nomination, the Banneker students started campaigning on social media to attract support for their project in the public voting stage.
"Public voting starts today and we need YOUR vote! We are the only team from the east coast & female minority group!" Sharrieff said in an April 23 tweet.
"Hidden figures in the making," Snell tweeted, a reference to the 2016 movie "Hidden Figures," the unsung true story of African-American female mathematicians who worked at NASA in the golden era of space exploration.
However, some users of 4chan's "politically incorrect" board (abbreviated as /pol/), where hoaxes and conspiracy theories often originate, complained the teens were getting a lot of votes because they were black and spearheaded an effort to torpedo their campaign.
A CNN analysis of 4chan/pol/ uncovered several threads urging users to vote for a team of teenage boys instead, using anonymous privacy software to hack the voting system. Some /pol/ users posted racist insults and urged members to spread the campaign to other 4chan boards.
NASA said in a statement to CNN it had to "end public voting to protect the integrity of the results" after hackers attempted to change the vote totals.
They did the math: How NASA's black mathematicians multiplied success
They did the math: How NASA's black mathematicians multiplied success
"Unfortunately, it was brought to NASA's attention yesterday that some members of the public used social media, not to encourage students ... but to attack a particular student team based on their race and encourage others to disrupt the contest and manipulate the vote ... the attempt to manipulate the vote occurred shortly after those posts," read the statement, issued Monday.
"NASA continues to support outreach and education for all Americans, and encourages all of our children to reach for the stars."
CNN has been unable to reach the three students for comment.
On Twitter the students have posted NASA's statement on the voting, along with a message thanking people for their support.
NASA said it has an accurate record of the voting results before the disruption occurred. A panel of judges this month will choose the winners, who will be invited to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland for two days of workshops with scientists and astronauts. Each winning team will also receive $4,000.
The three teens were coached and helped with their project by mentors at the Inclusive Innovation Incubator in Washington, a community space which combines science, technology and social inclusion.
The Incubator said in a statement to CNN that the students are seeing "positive outcomes" for the NASA challenge, despite the attempts to corrupt the results.
"The ladies are ecstatic about the experience and opportunity the NASA challenge provided," it said. "While it is true they had amazing community support in the popular public voting, the challenge is focused on the delivery of the scientific exploration ... Win or lose -- the girls met their goals and will wish the final winner congratulations."

Surprising nobody, /pol/ continues to be shit by downvoting black women's work beacuse they were black women.

But what say you NSG?

Going to repost the op right here.

Notice that I said that only /POL/ did it. Not once did I claim that all of 4chan is /pol/. But that /POL/ did this alone.

Granted i dont blame you, you only read an article and wasnt there so you dont know much more, but it wasnt just /pol/. There were some "advertisements" on /b/, /k/, and /wsr/

[Rostavykhan]

It does make a difference though. A site filled with trolls and edgelords mostly used for posting dank memes is probably not that trustworthy on its intentions.

So why is there so much Pepe at alt right rallys? Maybe beacuse the alt right scuz balls at /pol/ took it as a puppet and went to rally with it beacuse they are serious about there inane bullshit?

I mean, /leftypol/ also uses it.

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

So why is there so much Pepe at alt right rallys? Maybe beacuse the alt right scuz balls at /pol/ took it as a puppet and went to rally with it beacuse they are serious about there inane bullshit?

Because Pepe is a funny meme and the alt right is mostly younger people. Also, what do you consider alt-right? Are basic Trump supporters, who also use Pepe, on the same level as serious neo-nazis? Because the term is very loosely applied to both and everything in between.

People who attend Alt Right rallys (not the protesters) and, extreme Trump supporters (not the ones who do it out of pragmatism).

Because if there intentions where "just 4 t3h luz" then why do they seriously believe it?

They probably don't, and even if they do why does it matter?

They do, beacuse they come to rallies to support there bs.

Because there "just 4 t3h luz" has real world consequences.

[Telconi]

Because Pepe is a funny meme and the alt right is mostly younger people. Also, what do you consider alt-right? Are basic Trump supporters, who also use Pepe, on the same level as serious neo-nazis? Because the term is very loosely applied to both and everything in between.

People who attend Alt Right rallys (not the protesters) and, extreme Trump supporters (not the ones who do it out of pragmatism).

They probably don't, and even if they do why does it matter?

They do, beacuse they come to rallies to support there bs.

Because there "just 4 t3h luz" has real world consequences.

Okay, everybody's beliefs have real world consequences. There are people in this world who don't think like you, there always will be, you should probably learn to accept that eventually.

[Ceolophysia]

Because Pepe is a funny meme and the alt right is mostly younger people. Also, what do you consider alt-right? Are basic Trump supporters, who also use Pepe, on the same level as serious neo-nazis? Because the term is very loosely applied to both and everything in between.

People who attend Alt Right rallys (not the protesters) and, extreme Trump supporters (not the ones who do it out of pragmatism).

Well, T_D users, which are definitely not the same as neo-nazis, as older /pol/ users hate them, also use Pepe and actually use Kekistan memes and the like much more often.

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

Going to repost the op right here.

Notice that I said that only /POL/ did it. Not once did I claim that all of 4chan is /pol/. But that /POL/ did this alone.

Granted i dont blame you, you only read an article and wasnt there so you dont know much more, but it wasnt just /pol/. There were some "advertisements" on /b/, /k/, and /wsr/

Wouldn't the "advertisements" be made by /pol/ users?

[The Portland Territory]

Because Pepe is a funny meme and the alt right is mostly younger people. Also, what do you consider alt-right? Are basic Trump supporters, who also use Pepe, on the same level as serious neo-nazis? Because the term is very loosely applied to both and everything in between.

People who attend Alt Right rallys (not the protesters) and, extreme Trump supporters (not the ones who do it out of pragmatism).

By that definition I am also “Alt Right”

If you want a difinitve definition, Alt Right essentially refers to Right Wing younger people who have nationalistic views, but are not explicitly ethnic nationalists, anti-democratic, or even fascist

[Van Riebeeck Land]

That's what 4chan does; and it's fucking hilarious tbh. NASA should of judged this themselves if they didn't want this to happen.

[Crockerland]

Because Pepe is a funny meme and the alt right is mostly younger people. Also, what do you consider alt-right? Are basic Trump supporters, who also use Pepe, on the same level as serious neo-nazis? Because the term is very loosely applied to both and everything in between.

People who attend Alt Right rallys (not the protesters) and, extreme Trump supporters (not the ones who do it out of pragmatism).

Well Herp, sorry to have to tell you, but that's not what the Alt-Right is.

[The Portland Territory]

Granted i dont blame you, you only read an article and wasnt there so you dont know much more, but it wasnt just /pol/. There were some "advertisements" on /b/, /k/, and /wsr/

Wouldn't the "advertisements" be made by /pol/ users?

Correct, however that still means many from the other boards aided to the voting. /pol/ began and “””organized”” it, But that still doesn’t mean they were alone

[Ceolophysia]

People who attend Alt Right rallys (not the protesters) and, extreme Trump supporters (not the ones who do it out of pragmatism).

By that definition I am also “Alt Right”

If you want a difinitve definition, Alt Right essentially refers to Right Wing younger people who have nationalistic views, but are not explicitly ethnic nationalists, anti-democratic, or even fascist

I think those would be considered "alt-lite," at least by the more radical groups that are grouped under the category.

[Telconi]

People who attend Alt Right rallys (not the protesters) and, extreme Trump supporters (not the ones who do it out of pragmatism).

Well Herp, sorry to have to tell you, but that's not what the Alt-Right is.

Are we surprised that Herp's concept of the Alt-Right is a bit skewed?