No kidding! Russia has been running influence operations inside the US, inserting Putin's propaganda

[Yorkie Mom]

Russia has been running influence operations inside the US, inserting Putin’s propaganda into American discourse for years. Justice Dept charges NY based woman with ties to Moscow.

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[LiberalFighter]

1. What about Zuckerberg and Facebook?

There are so many fake accounts and FB does nothing about it.

[gldstwmn]

20. It's everywhere. I see their little talking points on Nexdoor, Reddit and other places.

Crime, guns and bail reform are some of their favorite topics. There was a thread with three of them on Next-door yesterday talking about oil independence. One starts the narrative and the others amplify it. Then they hope for torches and pitchforks from real people from there. If you look at the top stories on the New York Post you can get a pretty good idea of what their narrative is going to be for the next few days. I've had to limit my exposure there though because some of the things on that page are really triggering. It's gotten pretty awful. I don't know if Murdoch was always one of theirs but he's not even trying to hide it anymore. I hope the lawsuits bankrupt them. This is something that really needs to be addressed for the good of our country but Joe has an awful lot on his plate already plus we don't even know how compromised congress is. It's truly frightening. This is the legacy of Trump.

[Botany]

2. I have always thought that Russia was way deep into FoX News and Rush

n/t

[mopinko]

3. yup

gonna be fun to see what happens now that the rubles are drying up.

[Botany]

5. NY Times: Ex-Fox News Producer Broke Law With Work for Russian Oligarch, U.S. Says

A former Fox News producer was charged on Thursday with violating U.S. sanctions by working for a Russian oligarch who has been accused of being a leading financial supporter of separatists in Crimea and eastern Ukraine and has close ties to President Vladimir V. Putin.

The producer, John Hanick, was arrested in London last month and charged in U.S. District Court in Manhattan in what federal prosecutors said was the first such indictment stemming from sanctions imposed as a result of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Konstantin Malofeev — the oligarch who employed Mr. Hanick, according to the indictment — was labeled “one of the main sources of financing for Russians promoting separatism in Crimea” by the Treasury Department when the sanctions were put in place in December 2014. Mr. Hanick worked for Mr. Malofeev from 2013 to 2017, the indictment says.

The case against Mr. Hanick, a 71-year-old U.S. citizen, was announced as the United States and much of the rest of the world continue to punish Russia financially amid broader efforts to halt its war on Ukraine. On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced a new task force to “hold accountable corrupt Russian oligarchs” who had supported the invasion.


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/nyregion/fox-producer-sanctions-russian-oligarch.html

[DBoon]

8. Not just Rush, the entire AM Tal Radio noise machine

[uponit7771]

13. They are, FAUX news was repeating Russia talking points about Ukraine for MONTHS during the

... impeachment

[Botany]

14. And so was Sen. Johnson repeating Russian talking points on the Senate floor during impeachment ....

.... #1.

"They" all knew that Russia was working for Trump in 2016. Fucking traitors all of them.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-ryan-keeps-it-family-kevin-mccarthy-russia-trump

[uponit7771]

18. +1,

[Botany]

22. Besides Ryan, McCarthy, Scalise and others were well aware of the Trump/Russia connections

People such as Comey, McConnell, Pence, Sessions, and God only knows how many other
in 2016 knew about it and how many Republican Senators took NRA money knowing full
well it was coming from Russia/Vlad.

Don't forget the July 4th 2018 trip to Moscow by the "Moscow 8" too.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/395719-gop-senators-visited-moscow-on-july-4

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Often I check to see who is a Bot or Troll on FB

By clicking on their name. If all I see is a name on their timeline and no profile photo, then it is a Bot account or Troll. That occurs when I give correct answers and someone tells me I am crazy or wrong. There are a lot of them to be sure.

[gab13by13]

6. Please, let's not forget,

Donald Trump, a Putin puppet, is the head of one of our major political parties. That party, the Putin party will not disavow Donald Trump, the entire party needs to be called, the Putin party.

[mitch96]

7. "influence operations inside the US". russia has been doing it for years.

Adlai Stevenson Stopped Russian Interference in the 1960 Election. They wanted to "help" him win the election.. Instead of taking the money and influence he went to Ike and told him of their plan. They will never stop..
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-adlai-stevenson-stopped-russian-interference-1960-election-180961681/

[crickets]

11. Wow. Thanks for that window to the past. nt

[DURHAM D]

9. Oh - I thought this was an article about Mag the Hag. nt

[L. Coyote]

21. About a friend of convicted Russain spy Maria Butina, who we know "dined with"

plenty of GOP notables.

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[Samrob]

10. Sad so many didn't believe HRC when she told us what Russia was doing. nt

[crickets]

12. Great. Now look at Facebook and Fox News. nt

[gldstwmn]

15. I worked with a guy in 2016 who I'm sure was one of them.

His sister lived in Moscow. They were musicians. He was pro Trump/Russia and showed little interest in anything else. He was married to a woman from Egypt and couldn't get immigration to let her into the states. He talked about moving back to Russia after the election.
It was a bullshit temp job for a Fortune 500 company that was going nowhere. It was one of those interim jobs. Morale was so low that they were offering a prize at one point. He was the only guy our team. He passed the days by playing on the internet and making a few calls a day. We all had to find busy work for ourselves. They hired us with the promise of one job and becoming full time permanent but the job was something else and a complete dead end. No one got hired nor did the original job description ever materialize the entire time that I worked there. The completely out of touch department head awarded the prize to the guy because he hadn't ever taken a sick day. We were not told beforehand that the prize would be based on attendance.
When it came out later that Russia had people on the ground here during that time he was the first person I thought of. I left that job so I have no idea what happened to him.
We are really only beginning to find out/realize the extent of how badly Trump sold us out and that we've somewhat been unwittingly been at cyber war with Russia for nearly a decade. I cannot imagine the damage another four years would have incurred. We're hanging by a thread.

[Hortensis]

16. Big news. The tRump, Sanders, and HRC presidential campaigns?

Can it become bigger and more blatant than that election? Before then tRump was an old, depraved clown of a joke, and even most of the folk over at Democratic Socialists who'd heard of I-Sanders (he wasn't one of them) couldn't have listed an accomplishment or picked him out of the annual group picture of the members of the senate.

And HRC was often chosen the most admired woman in our nation and on the planet, her approval ratings as SoS and U.S. senator often in the 70%s.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. I'm sure a few were posting on this site from 2014-2016 especially.

[L. Coyote]

19. More here, in LBN:

Dual national charged with acting as unregistered Russian agent in U.S.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142884695

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