Thank You, Oliver, for writing about All the Disinformation out there! The American people are Not all clueless, but allot of of people simply don't that their being manipulated?! I'm thankful for you listening some of the Usual Suspects,so folks can reference for themselves. Once again, Corporate Media only covers the "Scandalous Drama" not what it's doing to our nation or the public at large. I applaud you on another excellent piece this morning.💙🇺🇸
Yes, I’m certain I have interacted with them, too. I developed a knack for sniffing them out in comments online. Often they posed as “concerned” Americans just tryna point out this and that in a “both sides” way. After awhile I’d be seeing the same screen names, sometimes seemingly supporting Dems, then attacking “libtard policies” in another. Many were rabidly anti (fill in the blank). It’s tiresome posting counter arguments and probably only helpful to the troll farm operatives in terms of gaining them ammunition for the Kremlin’s agenda. So I’ve ceased my efforts 100% and devote my energies here on Substack instead.
This is literally the biggest story regarding US politics and the upcoming presidential election and I’ve heard little in the “mainstream media” about it.
I have been writing about Russian trolls for years and it has been absolutely bizarre that the corporate media just ignores that a foreign army of disinformation agents is promoting fascism and civil war in western democracies, to destroy us from the inside.
You'd think the media would be all over this, but nope. Sports, celebrity gossip, and ratings are more important than saving democracy.
It might also be a factor, that billionaires own the corporate media and social media, and billionaires want to get more billionaire tax cuts from Trump.
Their profits are more important to them than the good of the country or the lives of working class people.
If billionaires aren't talking about it, it's probably because billionaires favour it. Tax cuts, yes, but if Russian disinfo is destabilising democracy and billionaires favour it, why would that be? Peter Thiel and his acolytes are a great place to start looking. Paris Marx' 'Tech won't save us' podcast has done a lot of fantastic research on that particular rabbit hole, which may well be informative.
One has to wonder why more resource wasn't employed to combat Russian disinfo campaigns, and why did it take until Oct 24 for the story to break about Elon Musk's contacts with Putin? i keep saying Russia invaded the US without firing a shot.
I knew when I was conversing with a troll, and immediately went to their profile,which inevitably had clues you could discern that it was fake. I then blocked them and reported them to admins. It happened so often it drove me of Facebook for seven years. It started happening again last summer. It’s still happening. Wake up America, you’ve been had. While Zuckerberg stares down Bezos’ hooker girlfriend’s cleavage, our country is being taken over by the Nazi sitting next to him.
This really isn’t that big of a story when you consider in the US there are thousands of disinformation trolls doing the same thing at Fox, Breitbart, NewsMax, OAN, etc.
Tim Poole comes to mind, and the other dumb-asses he worked with. You would think he would be embarrassed to be shown to be such a dupe, but no, he still spouts the same propaganda.
Thank You, Oliver, for writing about All the Disinformation out there! The American people are Not all clueless, but allot of of people simply don't that their being manipulated?! I'm thankful for you listening some of the Usual Suspects,so folks can reference for themselves. Once again, Corporate Media only covers the "Scandalous Drama" not what it's doing to our nation or the public at large. I applaud you on another excellent piece this morning.💙🇺🇸
Thank you for the feedback, Karen!
Thanks for gathering info in one place. I'm certain I have interacted w trolls, mostly knowingly, lol
Yes, I’m certain I have interacted with them, too. I developed a knack for sniffing them out in comments online. Often they posed as “concerned” Americans just tryna point out this and that in a “both sides” way. After awhile I’d be seeing the same screen names, sometimes seemingly supporting Dems, then attacking “libtard policies” in another. Many were rabidly anti (fill in the blank). It’s tiresome posting counter arguments and probably only helpful to the troll farm operatives in terms of gaining them ammunition for the Kremlin’s agenda. So I’ve ceased my efforts 100% and devote my energies here on Substack instead.
Here in Canada we looooove the CBC!!! Adrian Arsenault is so amazing! Sorry, just couldn’t keep it to myself.
Thanks for the links!
Appreciate the article on Jessikka Aro. It’s good to see journalists in other countries tackling this issue as well.
This is literally the biggest story regarding US politics and the upcoming presidential election and I’ve heard little in the “mainstream media” about it.
arrgh. fut a whuckingMess
Thank you for this info.
Any thoughts on why we’ve known most of this for 8 years and it’s only coming to a head now?
I've been asking myself that for years.
I have been writing about Russian trolls for years and it has been absolutely bizarre that the corporate media just ignores that a foreign army of disinformation agents is promoting fascism and civil war in western democracies, to destroy us from the inside.
You'd think the media would be all over this, but nope. Sports, celebrity gossip, and ratings are more important than saving democracy.
It might also be a factor, that billionaires own the corporate media and social media, and billionaires want to get more billionaire tax cuts from Trump.
Their profits are more important to them than the good of the country or the lives of working class people.
If billionaires aren't talking about it, it's probably because billionaires favour it. Tax cuts, yes, but if Russian disinfo is destabilising democracy and billionaires favour it, why would that be? Peter Thiel and his acolytes are a great place to start looking. Paris Marx' 'Tech won't save us' podcast has done a lot of fantastic research on that particular rabbit hole, which may well be informative.
One has to wonder why more resource wasn't employed to combat Russian disinfo campaigns, and why did it take until Oct 24 for the story to break about Elon Musk's contacts with Putin? i keep saying Russia invaded the US without firing a shot.
Boris truly exists on many a comment section.
I’m going to watch “agents of chaos now.” It’s a huge problem. Putin has helped trump every step
I knew when I was conversing with a troll, and immediately went to their profile,which inevitably had clues you could discern that it was fake. I then blocked them and reported them to admins. It happened so often it drove me of Facebook for seven years. It started happening again last summer. It’s still happening. Wake up America, you’ve been had. While Zuckerberg stares down Bezos’ hooker girlfriend’s cleavage, our country is being taken over by the Nazi sitting next to him.
This really isn’t that big of a story when you consider in the US there are thousands of disinformation trolls doing the same thing at Fox, Breitbart, NewsMax, OAN, etc.
But you left out the ones who invented this game: Mossad.
Tim Poole comes to mind, and the other dumb-asses he worked with. You would think he would be embarrassed to be shown to be such a dupe, but no, he still spouts the same propaganda.