Offenes FBI-Dokument enthüllt erschreckendes Ausmaß des russischen Desinformationsschemas. 2.800 Influencer mit russischer Propaganda in Verbindung gebracht | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/185668/fbi-document-influencers-russian-disinformation
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2800 is a great number to deport to russia for their republican zoo village
From the article:
“They are afraid of losing the American way of life and the ‘American dream,’” Ilya Gambashidze, an architect of the project, wrote, outlining his scheme. “It is these sentiments that should be exploited in the course of an information campaign in/for the United States.” To do so, the Russian government would emphasize that Republicans are “victims of discrimination of people of color” and promote conspiracies that white middle-class people are being discriminated against.
The “guerrilla media” plan needed to not only plant falsehoods, but also spread them far and wide. They targeted gamers and chatroom users, who they described as the “backbone of the right-wing trends in the US segment of the Internet,” and monitored social media influencers. The Russians planned to build relationships with prolific posters who were “proponents of traditional values, who stand up for ending the war in Ukraine and peaceful relations between the US and Russia, and who are ready to get involved in the promotion of the project narratives.”
“We need influencers! A lot of them and everywhere. We are ready to wine and dine them,” wrote Gambashidze in a note from a meeting with Russian government officials.
Though this specific campaign has no official link with recent findings about Tenet Media’s work with Russian state media network RT, the goals are the same: “To secure victory for [Donald Trump].”
Me: has the republican party been TOTALLY comprised? What do they even stand for, at this point?
Rebel News in Canada?
The speed at which the right has gone from Red Meat, Commie-Hating Patriots to Russia is My White Ethno-State Eden is pretty amazing.
Maybe we can actually undo some of this.
From the article:
“They are afraid of losing the American way of life and the ‘American dream,’” Ilya Gambashidze, an architect of the project, wrote.
Yes, the poor Russians are so insanely jealous of what that stands for, to my good relatives and friends over the pond. They’ve gone insane in an attempt to destroy rather than to build: To build a society not plagued by total repression destined to crash and implode (again).
Treason.
Please tell me Joe rogan is on the list
It’s been extremely obvious for a long time now that the American right is a tool for Russia.
2800?
Anyone have a list
I’ve been saying this for 8 years and told over and over by redditors that’s it’s nothing but “red scare” talk.
2800 influencers? Must have been a wild group chat, I can already see the DMs: Hey guys, just wondering what hashtags we’re using to destabilize democracies today?
Where is the list?
This should still be massive front page news for weeks. I think a lot of us knew this was happening for a long time now, but reading their “Good Old USA Project” and seeing evidence of just how detailed and nefarious the plot has been has really taken me aback.
names
2800 is a precise number. Can we get the list? Or are we going to wait until after the election?
I was watching some ex-green beret YouTube personality talk to another ex-green beret about how violent the left was when they don’t get their way.
Liberals are dangerous to democracy….blah blah.
Then January 6th happened. That personality kept that video up. I figured that douchebag would take the video down, but I bet you a dollar that this guy is one of the 2800.
LEAK THE LIST
In a sane America, they would immediately lose all credibility and have to find a career far from any center of power and influence.
Aleksandr Dugin’s plans in action. Outlined in his book Foundations of Geopolitics.
I gotta give the perpetrators credit, they’re playing chess. They created ripe conditions for authorities to enact an information purge. This will rile up a large percentage of the population and create even more division and resentment.
Treason
I have been telling people this for years and nobody listened or thought I was a paranoid kook.
You never see a victim that gets filthy rich selling out their nation
And when can we expect some arrests??
This is actually going to help make a lot of confusing things make sense finally. I am totally eager to start getting this shit out in the open. That way, those of us who are actual Americans, invested in the American ideal, who have been scratching our heads at the disingenuous way some online personalities talk and how totally *un*American it seems for the past decade, now we know we weren’t just losing our minds. A huge number of Americans accepted profits from another nation state to sell the rest of us out.
Fuck them. And fuck the blood money they pocketed.
This report was sorely needed back in 2016 and 2020. The USG was talking about coordinated Russian disinformation campaigns but stopped short of naming their American collaborators because of the political backlash of calling conservative icons active traitors.
We needed the list of American operatives who were actually doing the influencing so we can name and shame them and mute the power of foreign election interference. So naive people trying to do their own research can say, “weren’t you on that list of people taking money from Russia to serve as their mouthpiece?”
Some people are too far gone, they will look at this list as people to **actively** seek out and listen to. But for everyone else, they can stop seeing these influencers as the “free thinking, flag loving, patriots” they brand themselves to be and recognize them as traitors for hire.
Wow. This is incredibly horrifying but also makes so much sense. The GOP has pivoted 180* for Russia and not in an era of detente, but while Russia is engaged in a genocidal war.
In a perfect world, this would be front page for weeks. It would include great analysis about why our social media are so happy to deal with the Devil; why it is so easy for foreigners to bribe Americans; and why Russia wants to help Trump.
But we live in a world where CNN and other media fixate the week before an election on some bullshit about Buttery E-mails, and ignore the overt attempt by an authoritarian rival to destroy our democracy.
So now f*cking PUNISH these people any way possible. Go after their money, kill their careers, put them in jail.
These people, from lowly influencer to people like Tucker Carlson etc. knew what they were doing. But no one has even tried to stop them for years.
This will not stop until such people personally feel the consequences of their choices.
Agents of foreign governments work to undermine the United States are TRAITORS.
I don’t know how anyone can look at TikTok and say it’s not all out warfare vs the west at this point
Traitors, every one of them.
They may not have known they were being duped, it would require unfathomable stupidity but that’s plausible.
Every one of them is supporting a traitor for president, and that makes them traitors.
Anyone who has listened to Right-Wing rhetoric over the past 5-years knows this is true. When they RANDOMLY start going on rants about how Ukraine is an “Enemy of The United States, and we owe an apology to Russia” (aka a literal quote from Tim Poole), you know they have to be a Russian Shill. That is a completely incoherent, unbelievably specific take for anyone in the US to make.
Publish the list. Please.
Unfortunately, this won’t sway many voters who are down the MAGA hole already. I know one guy who refuses to read *anything* online and only listens to Fox.
I had to bring over a newspaper article for him to read because he wouldn’t believe me about Ron DeSantis trying to destroy parks in Florida unless it was in *print*.
They are so far gone.
The West NEEDS to fight back. They are massively undermining our Democracy.
In case you didn’t get it yet, Putin is the enemy of the rest of the world. Weird that this has to be spelled out for so many people.