Zhi Zhu 🕸️Feb 16, 2023

"Prigozhin admitted his role in the effort [to interfere in US elections].

“We interfered. We are interfering and we will interfere,” he said. “Carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way, as we know how to do.”

“Are interfering” — as in, he and his team were attempting to influence the 2022 midterms, too. This was, at least per his self-interested presentation, an ongoing effort."
~@pbump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/16/trump-biden-russia-elections-interference/

#Russia #ElectionInterference #USA #SocialMedia #Twitter #Facebook

House Republicans are trying to construct a 2020 conspiracy theory

A top Putin ally just admitted to the sort of interference the FBI was hoping to derail in 2020. Claims that the FBI was trying to undercut Trump make no sense.

The Washington Post
BryanFeb 16, 2023
Show threadZhi Zhu 🕸️

"The FBI didn’t work to “suppress free speech,” it and other law enforcement organizations provided information to tech companies about potential foreign threats in an effort to prevent a repeat of 2016.

And they were doing this at a time when Russia was actively trying to repeat what it did in 2016, as Prigozhin admitted."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/16/trump-biden-russia-elections-interference/

#Russia #ElectionInterference #USA #SocialMedia #Twitter #Facebook #GOP #Lies

House Republicans are trying to construct a 2020 conspiracy theory

A top Putin ally just admitted to the sort of interference the FBI was hoping to derail in 2020. Claims that the FBI was trying to undercut Trump make no sense.

The Washington Post
Feb 16, 2023 at 10:30pmWeb
Show threadZhi Zhu 🕸️Feb 16, 2023

"Jordan’s a regular in right-wing media, where he makes sweeping pronouncements of nefariousness that don’t hold up.

The reality is simple and unexciting. Russia has tried to influence our elections, including through social media. The govt and social media companies, caught flat-footed in 2016, worked together to fight the effort.

And Donald Trump lost in 2020 because he was less popular than Joe Biden."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/16/trump-biden-russia-elections-interference/

#Russia #JimJordan #Trump #USPolitics

House Republicans are trying to construct a 2020 conspiracy theory

A top Putin ally just admitted to the sort of interference the FBI was hoping to derail in 2020. Claims that the FBI was trying to undercut Trump make no sense.

The Washington Post