Russia has intensified its online efforts to derail military funding for Ukraine in the United States and Europe, largely by using harder-to-trace technologies to amplify arguments for isolationism ahead of the U.S. elections, according to disinformation experts and intelligence assessments.
In recent days, intelligence agencies have warned that Russia has found better ways to hide its influence operations, and the Treasury Department issued sanctions last week against two Russian companies that it said supported the Kremlin’s campaign.
The stepped-up operations, run by aides to President Vladimir V. Putin and Russian military intelligence agencies, come at a critical moment in the debate in the United States over support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. While opposition to additional aid may have started without Russian influence, the Kremlin now sees an opportunity.
I wonder if we can plot news posts on lemmy . ml to see if there is a correlation here. There is a natural ebb and flow to pro-Russian posts and also pro-China posts that I have noticed over there already. I am speculating that some of the media over there comes directly from paid farms, but I can’t prove it.
The only issue is that I would probably need to track other places like twotter and gab to get the full picture of the propaganda flows. I’ve done it before, and it’s really weird stuff once you dig in a little.
It would be interesting, but not very useful for anything. Honestly, the only thing I really learned last time was how state sponsored news propagates.
Makes no sense. Russia is not a communist country anymore. It’s a mafia state. China is also barely communist.
Who mentioned commies?
The implication is that the Marxist-Leninist instance of Lemmy shills for Russia and China because communism.
No, the implication was that they were shilling for Russia and China and nothing more. Which they are doing.