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Reading your links, the known footprint between these governments seems quite different. Russia seems unique in its usage of these media. Faking a chemical disa
by themodelplumber 11y ago
Reading your links, the known footprint between these governments seems quite different. Russia seems unique in its usage of these media. Faking a chemical disaster in the US, attempting to incite discord by faking a police shooting video, turning their own special LOIC on a NYT reporter...in comparison, the writeups on other nations' efforts (that we know about) leave a lot of room for this to be a false moral equivalence at this point. This NYT story is a pretty big deal in terms of providing evidence to that effect.
- tptacek 11y agoThe more important distinction is that Russia's sockpuppet propaganda is aimed primarily at its own people.
- onestone 11y agoYes, but I wouldn't underestimate their foreign propaganda. It's very obvious in some countries, for example mine (Bulgaria), where trolls affiliated with Russia regularly flood articles with anti-EU and anti-US comments.
- tptacek 11y agoI feel like I hear this comment every time the subject comes up. Are there people with stories about anti-Russian British sockpuppets on Vk or whatever? I never hear that story, but maybe it's because I don't spend time on Runet.
- reagency 11y agoIn USA, regular Americans do that.
- tptacek 11y agoRegular people are by definition not sockpuppets.