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Pro-Moscow voices tried to steer Ohio train disaster debate
AP ^ | March 19, 2023 | DAVID KLEPPER

Posted on 03/19/2023 5:54:02 AM PDT by McGruff

Soon after a train derailed and spilled toxic chemicals in Ohio last month, anonymous pro-Russian accounts started spreading misleading claims and anti-American propaganda about it on Twitter, using Elon Musk’s new verification system to expand their reach while creating the illusion of credibility.

The accounts, which parroted Kremlin talking points on myriad topics, claimed without evidence that authorities in Ohio were lying about the true impact of the chemical spill. The accounts spread fearmongering posts that preyed on legitimate concerns about pollution and health effects and compared the response to the derailment with America’s support for Ukraine following its invasion by Russia.

Some of the claims pushed by the pro-Russian accounts were verifiably false, such as the suggestion that the news media had covered up the disaster or that environmental scientists traveling to the site had been killed in a plane crash. But most were more speculative, seemingly designed to stoke fear or distrust. Examples include unverified maps showing widespread pollution, posts predicting an increase in fatal cancers and others about unconfirmed mass animal die-offs.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: neocons4biden; russiarussiarussia
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To: Godebert

AP= America’s Pravda


41 posted on 03/19/2023 8:26:06 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: OKSooner

“...Communist Russian Spy like Philip and Elizabeth”

LOVED “The Americans”. It was brilliantly done. Think I’m going to watch it again, we only jumped into it about season 3. Then we finally went to great lengths to finish it during the first bit of Covid lockdowns. I think we were afraid we’d die before we finished it.

3 years ago, and yet an eternity in all our lives.


42 posted on 03/19/2023 9:25:58 AM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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To: BlackbirdSST

Ooooh. Such a devastating riposte! You should write that one down.


43 posted on 03/19/2023 1:19:40 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC
Ooooh. Such a devastating riposte! You should write that one down.

I'm not trying to one up you Ms. Cheney, I'm just trying to show you, how you are embarrassing your self on a public forum. Carry on.

44 posted on 03/19/2023 1:53:39 PM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust!)
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To: bigfootbob
“You’re an embarrassment.”

We have quite a few of those here.

If you make it back to this thread you will see she hasn't given up.

45 posted on 03/19/2023 1:55:33 PM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust!)
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To: McGruff

Oh, those dastardly RuZZZiams.


46 posted on 03/19/2023 2:57:49 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: BlackbirdSST

I’m autistic. I really, truly am incapable of caring what you think of me.

Go bother someone who cares.


47 posted on 03/19/2023 6:00:18 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC
I’m autistic. I really, truly am incapable of caring what you think of me. Go bother someone who cares.

Yeah, I've seen you make that claim before. I have also seen you more recently make the claim that you are 70ish hours away from your commercial pilots license and have, I think it was 2 carriers, waiting to sign you on to fly their planes. Something about that doesn't add up.

You may not be aware that I am the Father to a 30 y/o Autistic Son who lives with me. I know Autism. He and I live it every single day. The State will not issue him a drivers license. (The FAA isn't likely to allow him to pilot a plane either.) They are right in denying it to him. His attention span or lack thereof would get him or someone else killed.

One thing he seems incapable of is lying, even white lies so as not to offend, he just has to tell the truth.

48 posted on 03/20/2023 3:02:55 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust!)
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To: BlackbirdSST

Believe what you want.


49 posted on 03/20/2023 6:41:03 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC
Believe what you want.

I will, thanks.

50 posted on 03/20/2023 6:54:51 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust!)
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