Re:911 call centers down in Washington state
by Gravityloss on Friday December 28, 2018 @08:43AM
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You can affect this as a foreign power. Pay some think tank to produce material for (so called) media outlets.
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Re:911 call centers down in Washington state
by johnchristopher on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:14AM
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I am not a US citizen and not living in the US but I can't recall hearing a foreign official or non-official supporting a reduced US government.
US local politicians are vocals enough about it.
Re:911 call centers down in Washington state
by pjc50 on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:41AM
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Obviously they wouldn't do so under their own names, but through Macedonian troll factories, opaquely funded think tanks, Russia Today interviews, twitter bots, and so on.
Re:911 call centers down in Washington state
by mattnewton on Friday December 28, 2018 @10:33AM
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I absolutely agree this is a home grown phenomenon but there is some evidence that Russia funneled money to Republicans with these beliefs through the NRA. This is just one example we happen to know about because people are looking under every rock after the 2016 election.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/timeline-of-russian-plot-to-inf...
Re:911 call centers down in Washington state
by pjc50 on Friday December 28, 2018 @11:48AM
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The NRA is a great example of this; its president is Oliver North, famously involved in a plot to sell weapons to one enemy of America to illegally support a terrorist organisation in another. I'm sure such an upstanding person has America's best interests at heart. /s
Re:911 call centers down in Washington state
by Gravityloss on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:35AM
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Oh, that would be doing it wrong. Of course it would be presented as locally written journalism, local experts or "concerned citizens" etc.
I'm not saying it's happening, but I certainly see the potential profitability in it.