Russian accounts still active on pro-Trump sites -researchers

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Russian accounts still active on pro-Trump sites -researchers
Joseph Menn
Mon, 7 June 2021, 10:13 AM·3-min read

(Reuters) -A group believed to be Russian has remained active on internet services favored by far-right Americans, showing efforts to interfere in U.S. politics continue after the election, according to reports from social media research firm Graphika and nonprofit Advance Democracy Inc.

The group, which Graphika believes to be connected to previous Russian interference efforts, runs at least 20 accounts on a new version of an internet bulletin board once known as TheDonald, in reference to former president Donald Trump. Discussion site Reddit banned the forum last year, saying it encouraged violence against public officials.

The accounts also posted cartoons and comments that falsely accuse President Joe Biden, a Democrat, of pedophilia and senility…Graphika said 16 times in March and April, Patriots.win accounts posted the same cartoons as accounts the firm was already tracking on Gab, a site popular with white supremacists. Neither Gab's top executive nor a group of Patriots.win moderators responded to Reuters questions about the accounts.

…On Thursday, the most active of the Patriots.win accounts posted "2A is the answer to the corrupt pedo elite," garnering hundreds of supportive votes. 2A refers to the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protecting the right to bear arms.

More here
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/russian-accounts-still-active-pro-141326906.html

[Botany]

1. I wonder if those accounts are spreading anti mask and anti vaccine disinforamtion?

n/t

[bronxiteforever]

2. +1 good question. I think anything that ramps up hate and chaos

would be pursued by the Russians. It is a National Security issue.

[Botany]

3. Well QAnon's blather is helped by Russian "amplification....

... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-qanon-russia/russian-backed-organizations-amplifying-qanon-conspiracy-theories-researchers-say-idUSKBN25K13T

I have always wondered just how deep into Fox News is Russia?

[bronxiteforever]

4. Absolutely! And Vlad is worried about the welfare of Jan 6 insurrectionists

The first sign of trouble came a week ago, when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sounded a bit like a far-right Republican when talking about the insurrectionist attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Lavrov told reporters last Monday that the Kremlin is "following with interest" the "persecution" of those "accused of the riots on Jan. 6."
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/putin-s-russia-adopts-republican-talking-points-jan-6-riot-n1269861

[Botany]

5. I think some of the reasons that the Republicans are trying to block any 1/6/21 investigation ....

.... is that it might expose the deep links between Russia/Fox/GOP and all the GOP
House, Senate, and White House help those coup terrorists got.

BTW Russian/GOP/Right Wing Disinformation is at a massive scale now. In the summer of
2020 a bunch of "bubbas" from Brandenburg, KY gathered at the base of a monument to
Confederate Troops because they were sure that a barge load of BLM people were gonna
come down the OH River to attack the statue. The "KY Patriots" learned about the upcoming
attack from the internet.

[bronxiteforever]

6. +1 excellent point

[Botany]

7. Always remember that whenever Trump said, "fake news" as per the Trump campaign and Russia ...

.... he was lying. The information Paul Manafort gave the Russian agent Konstantin Kilimnik was not
just "polling data" but data analytics or what could be turned into data analytics so the Russians knew
where and by how much they had to rat fuck or elections in 2016. McConnell, Ryan, Pence, Sessions,
and others were well aware of the Trump/Russia collusion in 2016 and said nothing.

[bronxiteforever]

8. Yes! Add Steve Bannon and the Mercers.