This is what Russian propaganda looks like in 2024 (www.npr.org)

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Pro-Russia social media accounts amplifying stories about divisive political topics such as immigration and campus protests over the war in Gaza.

Influence operations linked to Russia take aim at a disparate range of targets and subjects around the world. But their hallmarks are consistent: attempting to erode support for Ukraine, discrediting democratic institutions and officials, seizing on existing political divides and harnessing new artificial intelligence tools.

"They're often producing narratives that feel like they're throwing spaghetti at a wall," said Andy Carvin, managing editor at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which tracks online information operations. "If they can get more people on the internet arguing with each other or trusting each other less, then in some ways their job is done."

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Pro-Russia social media accounts amplifying stories about divisive political topics such as immigration and campus protests over the war in Gaza.

They forgot discontent about the economy. Also, the key factor of (sometimes, but not always) linking all three topics directly to Biden even though his actual record on all three could be summarized as "not Bernie Sanders but also several standard deviations better than most Democrats, like actually to the point that he's trying to help, and several miles or several hundred miles better than Trump"

"I care how migrants are treated, and that's why I can't vote for Biden over Trump" is, if you take a second to examine the reality involved, all you really need to see to know that the person you're talking to is motivated by something much darker and more dishonest than actually caring about what happens to migrants

The volume of posts, articles and websites that Russian-linked operations produce is being boosted by artificial intelligence — another new factor that sets 2024 apart from previous election cycles.

I am constantly curious to maybe find some poster on Lemmy that's actually literally a bot, or whose answers are being generated by a bot. I haven't done it yet. I wish glitch tokens still worked.

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