Re:Watched Over 100 Covert Russian Propaganda Videos on YouT...
by aaron695 on Saturday October 14, 2017 @10:58PM
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And blocked by Google. Censorship for the win.
Given (Google translate from another site)
"The page "Williams and Calvin" at the time of writing the news was only about 260 subscribers, and video records on average, there are 5 to 140 views. The number of hits in most of last year's records, including those relating to Hillary Clinton, does not exceed 20."
and one assumes some of those would be spam.
The real value and the only interesting thing here is watching an attempt at propaganda by the Russians. Another learning opportunity lost.
[edit] "...both Williams and Kalvin claim their hometown is Owerri in Nigeria."
Are we sure they are just not part of the fake news, lets make money game? Their accent is so strong I find it unlikely the Russians would have tried this. Seems more like the US is trying a propaganda scam on a failed advertising revenue scam.
Infowars for black people, a brilliant money raising 'idea'.
The problem, being from Nigeria they fit the part, but without having ties to Russia they didn't have the skill set. No sense of culture in the US they didn't realise how much the accent and correct grammar would be an issue.
Or did they, and they gave it a good old go anyway using entrepreneurial spirit.
These days you could do it and sell it to the Russians as a marketing idea, but when they started in 2016 it wouldn't have occurred to them.
Given (Google translate from another site)
"The page "Williams and Calvin" at the time of writing the news was only about 260 subscribers, and video records on average, there are 5 to 140 views. The number of hits in most of last year's records, including those relating to Hillary Clinton, does not exceed 20."
and one assumes some of those would be spam.
The real value and the only interesting thing here is watching an attempt at propaganda by the Russians. Another learning opportunity lost.
[edit] "...both Williams and Kalvin claim their hometown is Owerri in Nigeria."
Are we sure they are just not part of the fake news, lets make money game? Their accent is so strong I find it unlikely the Russians would have tried this. Seems more like the US is trying a propaganda scam on a failed advertising revenue scam.
Infowars for black people, a brilliant money raising 'idea'.
The problem, being from Nigeria they fit the part, but without having ties to Russia they didn't have the skill set. No sense of culture in the US they didn't realise how much the accent and correct grammar would be an issue.
Or did they, and they gave it a good old go anyway using entrepreneurial spirit.
These days you could do it and sell it to the Russians as a marketing idea, but when they started in 2016 it wouldn't have occurred to them.