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    5 months ago

    I feel its worth noting that this article suggests the actions of this group is/was centered on the war happening in Ukraine . I’m not sure what the other person was saying but it does not follow , nor is it reasonable to conclude from this information alone that these agents operate on other topics .

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      5 months ago

      Yes but to them everything has to be Russias fault even when it’s just what the republican party has been for decades.

      I guess I shouldn’t have thought there was logic in this meme

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      5 months ago

      Well, of course, it’s a huge topic and that’s just one article that supports the idea. I’d need to link to several to cover the bases. I didn’t have time yesterday to write an essay before I headed out. The point of the link wasn’t to back up exactly what I’m saying but to give a rough idea that I’m not just making the whole thing up.

      If you want something more in-depth on the Facebook campaigns that dives into the 2016 election, try An Ugly Truth by Frenkel & Kang. Several chapters are dedicated to how these troll farms were discovered and how they used the platform to reach their audience.

      Still, I invite you to do a basic search on this topic and if you need me to dig up some articles for you I can see what I can find, it’s not that hard to figure it out.

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        5 months ago

        my point isn’t to say that the ellection interference in 2016 did not happen , but that I don’t think its reasonable to assert that a topic is being influenced by Russian trolls by virtue of it being something Russia might have a vague interest in .

        not to say that any suspicions are invalid , of course , but again from what I understand , Russia has a very “one topic at a time” approach , which should be taken to mean there is a limited number of affected communities , which from past examples appear “home grown” .

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          5 months ago

          “vague interest”? I think you’re severely downplaying their intentions for whatever reason. Russia has plenty to gain from the destabilization of the West.

          Russia has a very “one topic at a time” approach

          What do you base this on? And why would this impede them from trying? You make it sound like this lies in the hands of a handful of people or that it’s not a sizeable operation. And can you give “homegrown” examples that can be shown not to be influenced by Russian disinformants?