Russian disinformation network said to have helped spread smear of U.S. ambassador to Ukraine
Source: Washington Post
The story that appeared on The Hill website on March 20 was startling.
Marie Yovanovitch, the American ambassador to Ukraine, had given a list of people whom we should not prosecute to Ukraines prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, according to a write-up of an interview Lutsenko gave to the conservative columnist John Solomon.
Five days later, an image of that purported list appeared in a post on the website Medium and on a number of other self-publishing platforms in locations as disparate as Germany, South Africa and San Francisco. In less than a week, the Medium essay had been translated into Spanish and German and posted to other websites.
Now, a social media analysis firm, Graphika, has traced those posts to a Russian disinformation campaign in the first evidence that a network of accounts involved in spreading disinformation before the 2016 election also participated in circulating the false claims about Yovanovitch that led earlier this year to her recall from the U.S. embassy in Kyiv.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/17/russian-disinformation-network-said-have-helped-spread-smear-us-ambassador-ukraine/
All roads lead to Putin.
SWBTATTReg
(22,176 posts)What idiots.
PSPS
(13,621 posts)The russian GRU network is quite widespread.
DFW
(54,448 posts)What's new is that they have actively willing accomplices in Washington and New York.
Not unwitting help, but numerous, well-connected allies within the Republican Party.
THAT is an advantage they didn't have before.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)The obvious coordination Rudy carried out (and still does) is a Gordian Knot of money, intrigue, and corruption across continents.
Who will have the huevos to slice it open and expose the gangrenous mass inside?
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Promoted Russian propaganda and siding with a corrupt murdering dictator Putin and helping make Ukraine help in corrupting our election by putting the squeeze on them by trump and Putin.Republicans are co-conspirators with these two criminals by refusing his conviction.