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• zenitsu@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Right wing opinion has been highjacked by the Russians, it’s a compromised crowd.

  Conflating the election result with support for Ukraine is also disingenuous, given that most americans actually support sending aid.

  Regarding American “military aid to Ukraine,” 51 percent of respondents in the CBS News/YouGov poll backed it, while 49 percent said they didn’t.

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  • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s the narrowest margin I’ve ever seen described as “a majority” lmao.

    If Russia has the ability to brainwash half the country using a handful of bot farms, then I can only imagine what our own, much more powerful and well funded intelligence agencies are capable of.

    This whole, “they disagree with me therefore they’ve been brainwashed by Russia” but is tiresome. Sure, Russia has made some attempts to influence public opinion but it’s not nearly as broad as you suggest. Even if it were, that raises the question of why they were so receptive to Russia’s techniques and why your side can’t employ similar ones to persuade them. Honestly, when people say stuff like this, I have to wonder if they really believe it themselves, or if they’re just saying it to discredit the other side or to resolve the psychological discomfort of other people disagreeing about something.

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    • zenitsu@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think you just lack the information, here are just a few examples off the top of my head:

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report

      …wikipedia.org/…/Russian_interference_in_the_2016…

      …wikipedia.org/…/2024_Tenet_Media_investigation

      The West can’t engage in the same disgusting tactics even if it wanted to because unlike the authoritian state of Russia, we don’t control our internet to the point of blocking YouTube/Wikipedia. This can’t possibly be news to you.

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      • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, I’m aware that Russia makes attempts to influence American public opinion. But you’re vastly overstating the scope and effectiveness of these efforts.

        The West can’t engage in the same disgusting tactics even if it wanted to because unlike the authoritian state of Russia, we don’t control our internet to the point of blocking YouTube/Wikipedia

        You can’t be serious with this. First of all, the US did recently move to ban TikTok because it had too much pro-Palestine content, when it was unbanned, it sent out a message praising the Trump administration, clearly having come to an understanding with the government. Twitter was bought out by Musk who censors left-wing content and is deeply involved in the government. Zuckerberg suddenly unveiled a bunch of anti-woke policies as soon as Trump was taking office. So, censorship of platforms is an issue in the US.

        But secondly, and much more importantly, you’re talking about Russia propagandizing Americans, who have access to YouTube and Wikipedia! If the reason that Russian propaganda is so effective is that they censor those platforms, then how can it be that it’s still so effective when people have access to them? It’s complete nonsense.

        Again, you’re doing that thing of getting distracted reaffirming that Russia is bad and lose sight of reality.

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