Your reminder
In 2016 Russia financed a series of ads along with an army of upvote bots. The intent was to divide america further from all angles
The senate intelligence committee released the following ads from Russia linked actors
These are from accounts with names like Blacktivists, Back the Badge, Secure Borders, Army of Jesus and so on. Every division covered
We’re heading into 2024. If you see a political ad trying to provoke you: mistrust it.
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Russian financed political ads from 2016 meant to create division in American society
Stay vigilant headed into 2024
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Russian financed political ads from 2016 meant to create division in American society
Stay vigilant headed into 2024
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@flexghost and we're going to see them for sure as social media services have stopped even trying to moderate this at all. Led by Elon Musk at Twitter, but also Facebook has stopped trying to remove misinformation. And now AI generated misinformation.
I expect the worst.
@dangrsmind most of us are not on Twitter / X anymore. But the media still is. They will report anything posted on there with a small retraction later after they discover it is disinformation.
Instant legitimacy for evil people.
This is also the biggest threat to losing the election.
He lost in 2020. There is no way voters now have a better impression of him.
BUT Putin has a more valid reason to help him than in 2016: destroying the funding for Ukraine.
The real Russian threat are it's hackers and troll farms.
I hope our national security apparatus isn't too compromised by Trump lackeys to deal with these threats.
They wouldn't have to remove them if they could publicly identify them.
They could have an official government website showing all troll farm content that they've identified.
There have to be countermeasures because this strategy is working all over Europe and the UK as well.
Thank you for your service 👍
@flexghost as a general rule, do the opposite of what your TV tells you... the person attacked in the most advertisements is usually the better candidate with the most progressive/helpful policies.
It's why all of the GOP's ads have ominous music with a voiceover like "Did you know [candidate's name] supports [something objectively awesome]?"
Once again I ask:
why can’t we do the same but instead of spreading lies and disinformation, we spread truth and facts?
Why can’t somebody rent/buy/whatever the same bots, but then use it to spread names and information telling the truth and exposing disinformation?
Totally serious about this. Why?
Doesn’t pay??? Exposing susceptible people to truth using the same techniques enemies use to sell them lies?
I’ll bet you that 50,000 people donate immediately to finance this idea… I’d donate a lot to this cause because it’s been proven to work
Found the dumbest take on the internet everyone!
1. Not true
2. If true then someone spending a certain amount to destroy democracy doesn’t make it OK.
>> He only bought three clips worth of ammo not six! The shooting wasn’t that bad!!
Duhhh
3. Blue anon? Typing is fun but maybe you should try reading first
4. These images are from the senate intelligence committee. Overall, Russia spent a vast some even though the sum does not matter.
This is More response than you deserve
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@flexghost Lisa Simpson in your bio is right.
Quick question, how much was spent on the 2016 election by non-Russian actors, my little conspiracy theorist?
@flexghost the eternal cry of the shitlib. "You don't support invading Iraq - you're not SERIOUS!"
Good luck with your conspiracy theories while the fascists take over. You're going to need it.
@saren I can actually answer that. Back when I was on Twitter I had and was a member of DM groups. Some had official democrat organizers asking people (medium and large accounts) to disseminate talking points from their agenda. Then smaller accounts would see the larger accounts talking about a topic and submit their tweets/messages to the DM group for others to repost / retweet
Instant echo chamber with very few people at the helm.
@flexghost this post makes my assumptions feel vindicated.
Never has a greater weapon been more freely available than the power of misinformation.
This is one such weapon that is not prohibited by the Geneva convention and all countries are free to participate.
Be Skeptical. Trust yourself, not an algorithm.
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