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Russia’s Plan for World Domination – and America’s Unwitting Cooperation

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    Russia’s Plan for World Domination – and America’s Unwitting Cooperation

    "The next time you see a hyperbolic social media post that confirms your worst fears about people of a particular race, gender, religion, or political affiliation, your first reaction should be, “nice try, Russian troll,” rather than “OMG I MUST REPOST THIS EVERYWHERE!!!” Learn to take a breath and pause before you immediately like, retweet, or share divisive messages from obscure sources. Be especially wary of emotional manipulation. Most importantly, fact check yourself before spreading information designed to foment outrage and factionalism. Remember that the phrase “Russian disinformation campaign” does not describe some outdated method from a bygone era, but instead represents an active, effective tool being used against you right now."

    https://www.leecoweb.com/russian_plan/

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    Distinctive Features of the Contemporary Model for Russian Propaganda

    From The Firehose of Falsehood study by The RAND Corporation [1]. All of this should sound familiar:

    Distinctive Features of the Contemporary Model for Russian Propaganda
    - High-volume and multichannel
    - Rapid, continuous, and repetitive
    - Lacks commitment to objective reality
    - Lacks commitment to consistency.

    Notes on what can be done are in the linked study

    [1] https://www.rand.org/content/dam/ran...RAND_PE198.pdf

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      Russia’s Social Media War on America

      "As they dig into the viralizing of such stories, congressional investigations are probing not just Russia’s role but whether Moscow had help from the Trump campaign. Sources familiar with the investigations say they are probing two Trump-linked organizations: Cambridge Analytica, a data-analytics company hired by the campaign that is partly owned by deep-pocketed Trump backer Robert Mercer; and Breitbart News, the right-wing website formerly run by Trump’s top political adviser Stephen Bannon."

      "The congressional investigators are looking at ties between those companies and right-wing web personalities based in Eastern Europe who the U.S. believes are Russian fronts, a source familiar with the investigations tells TIME. In March, McClatchy newspapers reported that FBI counterintelligence investigators were probing whether far-right sites like Breitbart News and Infowars had coordinated with Russian botnets to blitz social media with anti-Clinton stories, mixing fact and fiction when Trump was doing poorly in the campaign."

      https://time.com/4783932/inside-russ...a-war-america/

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