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Re:Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia by jazzyjackson on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:14PM (#30463649)
They're pretty interesting because they have an incentive to be reliable in order for people to trust them. They are also generous with appearance fees so they gets lots of famous Americans on the screen Larry King, Glenn Beck and Ron Paul come to mind. Funny, when googling for examples of Americans appearing on RT a couple of Quora posts came up that may illustrate RT's angle:

> Why does RT (Russia Today) claim that Americans are forced to use unsanitary public laundromats because federal law prohibits hanging clothes on clotheslines to dry?

> The TV show "Russia Today" said the USA is collapsing because of the super rich. Is this true or not true?

It seems to me RT does not necessarily lie to its viewers, it just never skips a chance to make America look bad. Many more examples in the article, "Russia Goes Viral: How the RT network built a US audience":

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/09/how-the-rt-network-b...

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Re:Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia by TheFreim on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:20PM (#30463681)
> they have an incentive to be reliable in order for people to trust them

Classic social engineering trick, gain trust and "cash out" later.

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Re:Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia by jazzyjackson on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:34PM (#30463755)
certainly !
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