Lol the jig is up, we’ve been the victim of a limited hangout

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Sure they are. Remember when Reddit found all those “russian bots” and it turned out to be like 6 accounts with a combined 200 karma?

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how about those “spy balloons” that were turned off, i dont know how anyone can take these people seriously at this point

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it is of course entirely feasible that the data collection parts of the balloon were because it was a fucking weather balloon meant to collect weather data

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https://mronline.org/2022/11/07/massive-anti-russian-bot-army-exposed-by-australian-researchers/

A team of researchers at the University of Adelaide have found that as many as 80 percent of tweets about the 2022 Russia-Ukraine invasion in its early weeks were part of a covert propaganda campaign originating from automated fake ‘bot’ accounts.

An anti-Russia propaganda campaign originating from a ‘bot army’ of fake automated Twitter accounts flooded the internet at the start of the war. The research shows of the more than 5-million tweets studied, 90.2 percent of all tweets (both bot and non-bot) came from accounts that were pro-Ukraine, with fewer than 7 percent of the accounts being classed as pro-Russian.

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KREMLIN PROPAGANDA

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It’s always funny to see a propaganda mouthpiece accuse everyone else of being a propaganda mouthpiece.

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Newly declassified US Intel

Did this come from the same file where Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? I find it interesting how often US Intel is declassified randomly when it’s super duper helpful to struggling Western interests, and then later once it’s all blown over it turns out the Intel was wrong. Funny how that works. I’m sure this is definitely different this time

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Remember all the western intel about Russiagate and the Biden laptop that all turned out to be complete lies?

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Yeah but in this case it’s not even intelligence. It would be incredibly stupid for any nation, let alone Russia, to unilaterally disarm in terms of spreading national propaganda. Obviously Russia wants people to spread pro-Russian messages. It’s not some brilliant and devious Machiavellian plan, it’s statecraft 101.

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my favorite CNN article of all time is still the one where they try to make you think China banned the letter N

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/01/asia/china-letter-ban-trnd/index.html

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Presidet Jipig? More like Presidet Ji

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where do you think chia pets come from, emi?

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so this is proof that the whole “anyone opposing NATO is a Russian bot” thing is a intelligence agency psyop, right?

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I’d say that about sums it up, yeah.

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In its inception yes, but now there are people online spreading it unwittingly!

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The CIA is spreading propaganda through unwitting Westerners.

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