Against Astroturfing and Social Media Manipulation

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Russian "information war" campaign on the US, trying to convince voters that disabled people have too many privilidges (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/astroturfing@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16166999

The full document entitled “Guerilla media campaign on the United States” seized by the FBI from Russian government sources, is available here: https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/exhibits_9a_and_9b.pdf

If you’ve been noticing more and more ableist content online like I have, this could explain it.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

Section 4 makes it extremely obvious which party is A and B, and who the Russians are targeting.

[–] HairyHarry@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

This also explains why a specific candidate spoke about high prices of groceries.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago

Anyone reading this can immediately tell it's goal is Russian propaganda. Who are these people claiming they agreed to this and took the money but didn't know

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

And "perverts"