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Russian and Chinese Bots Fueling Online ‘Violence’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting
(www.thedailybeast.com)
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Hey, guess who invented Fox News. You think they stopped there as the internet became the new battleground? Why don't we hear about what the GOP bots are doing? China and Russia, though guilty themselves, are generally red herrings in these contexts because the GOP doesn't want the fingers pointed where they belong.
I don't think the GOP isn't trying, but I think Russia in particular is just way ahead of the game where this stuff is concerned. Democrats in no way have a monopoly on just being coked-up boomers bouncing around Washington having no real coherent idea of what successful political strategy looks like and not really having to care. I think most of the successful non-mainstream-media manipulation and funding comes from outside the country, it just happens that what they want to happen lines up with promoting the GOP by coincidence.
Wrong. The GOP has been planning their coup since the 1970s. Fox came out in 1996. They wrote the playbook on dismantling America and have been working on it since before the internet brought Russian bots. Before trump got enriched by Moscow money.
Yeah, and they're still using the playbook they worked out in the 90s: AM radio and cable news channels. If they were as hip as the Russians are in terms of hooking up social media bots and funding podcasters, we'd be in even more trouble than we currently are.
I'm not saying they didn't do a ton of home-grown damage (and are continuing to), I'm just saying the landscape has changed enough that they're not where the forefront of innovation is at this point.
Russian bots are gop bots.
whos actually distrbuting disinfo to fox, its putin, Murdoch and putin has been seen several times working together.