Americans Are Easy Marks for Russian Trolls, According to New Data

[applegrove]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/americans-are-easy-marks-for-russian-trolls-new-data-prove?via=twitter_page

By Kevin Poulson at the Daily Beast

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Whether by luck or design, the IRA’s campaign against America worked, and is still working. An examination of Twitter’s new dump of Russian troll data this month shows that the IRA’s tactics worked far better in the U.S. than in Russia or the Eastern European nations where the troll farm cut its teeth. English-language tweets by the IRA’s sockpuppet accounts enjoyed nine times the engagement than tweets in Russian and other languages. And, remarkably, Americans fell for the Russian interference even harder after the 2016 presidential election than before.

“Poland, Estonia, Ukraine, Georgia, they know Russia’s coming after them,” said Ryan Fox, a former NSA official now serving as COO of the smear-fighting startup New Knowledge. “They’ve been culturally trained to recognize Russia as a threat, so the skepticism of people in that region is pretty high... The U.S. was a far better environment for it to succeed.”

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[Glamrock]

1. If you've ever stood outside a hotel smoking with white, blue collar dudes

you'd look at this article and go, well.....duh.

[applegrove]

2. And there has been an anti intellectual culture in the US. Anyone can

read up on the world and many blue collar do. But not so much in one party. I guess they got them addicted to radio instead. Now the fox and the right wing internet.

[Glamrock]

3. Not many blue collar do in the midwest. (as far as I can tell)

I'm on the road 4 days a week, 50 weeks a year. I'm an anomaly baby.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. trained by GOP to be gullible

It's a vicious cycle:
Hear GOP propaganda all day, blaming Dems and "others";
Vote GOP to fix things, as instructed by Fox, GOP, Limbaugh;
Rich get richer, middle class stagnates, poor get poorer;
Repeat.

It's time for an intervention.

[JI7]

4. it works in the US because they spew shit that the right wing WANTS to believe

actual evidence , facts etc doesn't matter.

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