Germany unearths pro-Russia disinformation campaign on X
www.theguardian.com
Investigators uncover concerted onslaught on Berlin’s support for Ukraine involving more than 1m posts

The German foreign ministry, which commissioned the study after suspecting it was being targeted by bots, said the findings highlighted the need for governments to systematically tackle the growing number of disinformation campaigns and recognise the effect they could have on elections.

  • Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    9 months ago
    1. It’s not unproven they literally paid people to flag the riots I’m not sure why snopes is pussyfooting there.

    But again, EVEN THEN, just paying a few people to go out to protest doesn’t start a protest.

    They put in effort to make it worse, sure, that’s what they do.

    But they didn’t start it. Hell technically BLM didn’t even start it just rode the wave of already high strung public sentiment.

    every post it spells out “IM A RUSSIAN TROLL”.

    Oh I don’t think you are a russian troll, but I DO think you are a troll that isn’t creative enough to make your own tactics so borrow the well publicly documented format of russian state sponsored trolling.

    Something tells me you’ve spent scholarly time reading the Gentleman’s guide to forum disruption.

    • arymandias@feddit.deEnglish
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      9 months ago

      You stated no one said Russia instigated BLM riots and I gave you a clear example, now you’re just moving the goalposts.

      And not everyone with a different worldview than you is a troll, people have different opinions that’s why politics exists.

      • Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        9 months ago

        No you didn’t give a ‘clear example’, and no I am not moving any goalposts. That’s your side’s trick.

        You can go play your word games with someone else.

        Just because a troll farm paid 2 people to break windows doesn’t mean that those two people started the riot. How fuckdamn naive do you even have to be to believe this?

    • bermuda@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      9 months ago

      You’ve literally accused everybody who disagrees with you of either trolling or lying. I think you need a break from the Internet.