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blue-wave

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Fri May 12, 2017, 02:59 PM May 2017

Russia Has Weaponized Fake News to Sow Chaos

The Kremlin's influence campaign goes far beyond Trump's victory. Their latest unsuspecting targets: American conservatives.


...........For years, the Russian propaganda machine—a loose network of hackers and state media outlets, Twitter bots and bloggers—has pumped out a steady stream of digital disinformation aimed at drumming up support at home and destabilizing enemies abroad. But since Trump’s election, experts report, the Kremlin has doubled down on its dissemination of fake news. Sometimes the stories are completely made up. More often they are simply misleading or biased, tidbits of real reporting repackaged to serve Russian goals..........


Read More: https://newrepublic.com/article/142344/russia-weaponized-fake-news-sow-chaos



NOW!!!! Is the time for the targets of Russian disinformation, the conservatives, to wake the F up start acting, as they claim to be, like patriots. In this day and age, we must be ever vigilant against this type of threat.
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Russia Has Weaponized Fake News to Sow Chaos (Original Post) blue-wave May 2017 OP
CONservatives & RWA & RWAF are what is known as "soft targets" when it comes to fake news Bernardo de La Paz May 2017 #1
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