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PeraclesPlease — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 09:33:51 +0000

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Not that I want to defend Greenwald or Russia, but this thread has some believable points:

This portion of the article notes that backlash towards Sarsour began after the march, much of it "amplified" by one Russian troll account posing as a MAGA Republican. However, if we go by the NYT's timeline, we have a bit of a problem. pic.twitter.com/WLO8FH0jxt
— Robert Skvarla (@RobertSkvarla) September 18, 2022

Greenwald says this is all

artappraiser — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 04:22:47 +0000

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Greenwald says this is all bullshit; thread:

This unhinged NYT article and the cheering of it by the usual establishment mavens perfectly illustrates both the idiocy and utility of blaming US social strife on a few dozen Russians bots in St. Petersburg.

US elites are great! Anger in the US is due to Kremlin manipulation: https://t.co/BYj72ARnxd
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 18, 2022

artappraiser — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 17:34:18 +0000

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[....] They did not invent these social divisions; America already had them. Ladislav Bittman, who worked for the secret police in Czechoslovakia before defecting to the United States, compared Soviet disinformation programs to an evil doctor who expertly diagnoses the patient’s vulnerabilities and exploits them, “prolongs his illness and speeds him to an early grave instead of curing him.”

A decade ago, Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, oversaw a revival of these tactics, seeking to undermine democracies around the world from the shadows.

Social media now provided an easy way to feed ideas into American discourse, something that, for half a century, the K.G.B. had struggled to do. And the Russian government secretly funneled more than $300 million to political parties in more than two dozen countries in an effort to sway their policies in Moscow’s favor since 2014, according to a U.S. intelligence review made public last week [....]

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