Posted on 03/12/2020 5:43:43 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Russian trolls are back -- and once again trying to poison the political atmosphere in the United States ahead of this year's elections. But this time they are better disguised and more targeted, harder to identify and track. And they have found an unlikely home, far from Russia itself.
In 2016, much of the trolling aimed at the US election operated from an office block in St. Petersburg, Russia. A months-long CNN investigation has discovered that, in this election cycle, at least part of the campaign has been outsourced -- to trolls in the west African nations of Ghana and Nigeria.
They have focused almost exclusively on racial issues in the US, promoting black empowerment and often displaying anger towards white Americans. The goal, according to experts who follow Russian disinformation campaigns, is to inflame divisions among Americans and provoke social unrest.
The language and images used in the posts -- on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram -- are sometimes graphic. One of the Ghanaian trolls -- @africamustwake -- linked to a story from a left-wing conspiracy website and commented on Facebook: "America's descent into a fascist police state continues."
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(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
5 reporters to keep the 'RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA' narrative alive.
What feeds, for pigs or chickens?
The Russians have been helping Democrats for 100 years, since the Bolshevik Revolution. That tradition continues:
Unlike, say, the Trolls @ CNN...
{Most of whom I classify as agents/assets of the Rooskies.]
“...They have focused almost exclusively on racial issues in the US, promoting black empowerment and often displaying anger towards white Americans. The goal, according to experts who follow Russian disinformation campaigns, is to inflame divisions among Americans and provoke social unrest....”
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Russian? Hell, it sounds more like the DemocRATS. Exactly like the DemocRATS!
Clarissa Ward, Katie Polglase, Sebastian Shukla, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Tim Lister say Africans calling US under Trump fascist are not trying to help Dems, but merely sowing discord!
[Russian? Hell, it sounds more like the DemocRATS. Exactly like the DemocRATS!]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Infektion
Have they all contributed [$$ or columns or both] to Soviet Socialist Sanders?
Another way of putting this is that while the Uncle Sam does do some PR work to make the US look good, the Russians have a century-old tradition of spending money not just to promote itself, but to make the US look bad. It’s not that big a deal, in the overall scheme of things, but the Russians don’t just see the US as an adversary, it actively promotes enmity against the US among not just countries allied to the US, but also among unaligned countries. Is this a good use of Russian taxpayer funds? You’ll have to ask Vladimir Putin, without whose express permission these efforts couldn’t be funded.
Using Ghana and Nigeria .... Russia trying to hold to their 2016 $100,000 budget for election interference. Going to target the same people that fall for The Nigerian Prince email scam...you know, the gullible ones.
Even assuming it’s a legit story, the reality is that the disturbance created by some lame trolls from West Africa pales in comparison to the damage done to our election process by deep state puppets at CNN and the rest of the MSM.
CNN is always trying to poison the political atmosphere in the USA.
So there’s a Russian conspiracy to propagate leftard conspiracy theories and identity politics?!
Don’t listen to them! Walk away.
They resent the competition.
They are amazing at simply ignoring counter arguments, especially, oh say, the whole fact that Bloomberg spent $500,000,000 trying to get himself elected and failed spectacularly. But our whole election system is somehow teetering on the brink from alleged $100,000 of anonymous facebook ads.
[Using Ghana and Nigeria .... Russia trying to hold to their 2016 $100,000 budget for election interference. Going to target the same people that fall for The Nigerian Prince email scam...you know, the gullible ones.]
Yo, CNN! GIVE... IT... UP... ALREADY!
That explains it.
My internet friend, Prince Chukwuma of Nigeria told me that I have to vote for President Trump before he can send me that $42,000,000 he promised to send, after I gave him my banking information.
If CNN told me the sky was blue I would know it is red.
Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein are Russian agents. So is anyone claiming that Ukraine did any interfering. And the Walkaway movement. And Trump. And Bernie. Is there anyone who isn’t a Russian agent?
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