This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16162455
How Russia is Influencing US Voters. Russian Intelligence Document "Guerrilla Media Campaign in the US" [Translated] Page 5
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And before people say "not Lemmy, we are too small" - It's pretty obvious that a major Lemmy instance is literally a training ground for these recruits before they get promoted to Facebook and reddit duty (either intentionally or otherwise). There have been a few narratives this election which seem to have been tested out on here weeks before getting to Facebook and reddit. "Blue MAGA" was a pretty obvious one they seemed to workshop on Lemmy.
There are certain actors on Lemmy that I'm betting will disappear after the presidential election cycle or significantly pull back their posting.
Basically fanning the flames of "democrat bad, support israel genocide" while also saying "republican not in power, can't blame them!". Genocide is terrible no matter who does it and we shouldn't pretend Republicans would be any better. In all likelihood, they would be worse.
this is a bit scary as the fediverse is likely a bit more difficult than facebook and such. I hate to think we are training them to well.
It’s pretty obvious that a major Lemmy instance is literally a training ground for these recruits
Is there any evidence to substantiate this claim, or are we doing the "Everyone on the instance I don't like is a Russian bot, because they disagree with me" line of reasoning?
“Blue MAGA” was a pretty obvious one they seemed to workshop on Lemmy.
Wasn't this in response to the dead-end Biden guys who were growing increasingly hysterical as he tanked out in the polls? Lemmy's gotten significantly more normal since Harris took the top of the ticket and the numbers have rebounded.
Nah, more like "Russian bots exist and some people I disagree with are Russian bots." Which is pretty much the entire premise of the article.
It's also pretty easy to tell the difference IMO. The trolls tend to just do nothing but troll and flame. They don't really spend much time engaging on other topics.
As far as why I think Lemmy is a training ground? Call it a hunch. Obviously I don't have a notarized letter from a troll farm saying that they are in control of a certain worldnews forum, but a lot of the usual suspects fit a bit too neatly into that box to not raise an eyebrow. There are some other patterns as well but its definitely all circumstantial.
It’s also pretty easy to tell the difference IMO.
Sounds like something a bot would say.
Is there any evidence to substantiate this claim, or are we doing the “Everyone on the instance I don’t like is a Russian bot, because they disagree with me” line of reasoning?
It's option B in all cases.
In order for this work to be effective, you need to use a minimum of fake news and a maximum of realistic information. At the same time, you should continuously repeat that this is what is really happening, but the official media will never tell you about it or show it to you.
Yep, that last sentence pretty much sums up right-wing media, especially since "Candidate A" ~~who is definitely not Trump, shhh~~ ran for office around 2016.
Hero.
Gee, I wonder what the censored bits actually say. It's a total mystery.
So basically the Russian government branch of Fox news.
Fox News IS the conservative plutocracy's STATE propaganda network. The only difference is they created the state media before they seized control of the state.
They’re the same picture.
'In the fox news style'
Hmmm 🤔
Also interesting how much they count on white grievances and making white people feel attacked. It's almost like these things make you easier to manipulate.
“Manga editorial office”??
Russia has learned the power of Japan.
Mistranslation of “Maga”?
Given that the other two are text and video, I'm going to guess it should be image.
That puzzled me too.
This is the most moronic timeline.
Must be a trip to work in the department of memes and propaganda as a memesmith
The video editoral needs an union.
3-4 images a day is chill. 3-4 videos is insane.
Yeah lol. I can make 3-4 shitty memes in 30 mins.
Maybe it's time to return the favor.
I wonder if Russians are aware of the ways Putin enriches himself off of Russian poverty and suffering. Let's make sure they know how to solve that problem.
They aren't but they don't care.
You can't comprehend how psychologically broken Russians are, they've had centuries of lies with 0 truth, they just learned to accept whatever, because they know the alternative could always be a gunshot (or open window nowadays).
The West should just adopt the same tactics for Russian social media channels (VK, Telegram, etc), regular civilian groups if the state does not want to resort to it. Feed Russia some of their own medicine.
I have no doubt that the USA has fingers in the pie of public sentiments elsewhere.
This document has shaped every little chat I've had with every little tankie.
Neato!
