New court documents reveal that Russia is keeping a very, very long list of influencers to spread its propaganda.
The Russian disinformation plot revealed in a Justice DepartmentĀ indictmentĀ this week may just be the tip of the iceberg, according to newly unsealed court documents.
On Wednesday, the DOJ announced it would seize 32 internet domains linkedĀ to a larger Kremlin schemeĀ to promote disinformation and influence the 2024 election. The Russian campaign, known as Doppelganger, uses AI-generated content to create āfake newsā boosted through social media with the aim of electing Donald Trump.
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Of particular note, the documents released Wednesday included an affidavit that noted a Russian company is keeping a list of more than 2,800 influencers world wide, about one-fifth of whom are based in the United States, to monitor and potentially groom to spread Russian propaganda. The affidavit does not mention the full list of influencers, but is still a terrifying indicator of how deep the Russian plot to interfere in U.S. politics really goes.
I would say election interference still mostly works in the āall the world trying to somehow affect USā way as opposed to āUS interfering with some countryās electionsā.
Simply because affecting the power balance in the metropoly is much more rewarding.
Russia is a scarecrow.
First, itās not new and even USSR during fscking Cold War would fund and influence the so-called progressive youth (not whatās called progressive now) and parts of the Democratic Party. I guess that Biden guy stopped being a Soviet asset long before being elected president, but he definitely was at some point.
Second, Russian meddling is not even comparable to Israeli, Turkish, Saudi meddling. The problem is that they seem to agree with each other and often cooperate these years.
Third, itās not even a big deal, we know that politics involve such meddling. They wouldnāt think the same about the USA if it would show some responsibility. Restore Iraq after fscking it up. Investigate war crimes and give some justice to their victims after that invasion. Protect Georgia against Russia. I guess the Marshall plan was for white Europeans only (itās funny BTW, people in ex-USSR in 1991 apparently expected that something like that will be attempted, but USA worked to cement the ex-Soviet elites and to help them neuter actual grassroots movements instead), but at least fixing things that wouldnāt be broken without USA seemed logical.
Uhā¦ the US tried to restore Iraq, it didnāt go well. Nation building is hard and the US isnāt particularly good at it. Calling on the US to do more nation building probably isnāt a good idea.
Currently weakening the Russian military in Ukraine. Do you want to broaden the war?
Are you saying the Eastern Europeans arenāt white? Or that no money was spent in Afghanistan and Iraq? Thereās a difference between rebuilding allies and rebuilding while engaging in combat with a a resistance.
It doesnāt seem to be a lot of thought in this particular āUS badā narrative. There are real criticisms to be made of US foreign policy but youāre missing them all by a longshot. Maybe consider that the US isnāt some nation of supermen that is capable of solving all of the worldās problems but it just doesnāt want to. Itās more accurate to say the US isnāt actually capable of solving many of the problems in the world, and tends to make a lot of messes by misunderstanding other countries and itās own capabilities.
Youāve skipped half or more of what I wrote. Especially about not putting in jail people who committed war crimes in Iraq and about supporting people like Putin against everyone else in the ex-USSR in the 90-s.
Iām not talking about nation building under American control, but killing a million of a countryās population warrants reparations, international courts, official apologies (real ones) ā¦
In 2008, not currently.
Yes, if you replace what I said with weird imagined things.
It doesnāt take to be a nation of supermen to stop arming Turkey, Israel, Azerbaijan, put sanctions on them and forget they are of the same species.
And it seems to actually be close to āsome nation of supermenā when supporting the bad guys. Thereās definitely some beef to USās capabilities when it wants to fuck something up and arm cannibals.
Itās not that hard to not act. The problem with the US is that it does bad things, not that it doesnāt do good things. But if it just canāt play hegemon differently, then it could at least try to clean up sometimes.