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Re:Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americ... by an_guy on Saturday October 26, 2024 @03:01PM (#41956930)
> seems pretty provenn from links in the ISD articles to posts from RT, Sputnik

Both articles are quoting prominent US politicians and goes on to detail Fema's response.

> and Dmitry Medvedev doing just that.

How does a vague statement from Russian politician "amplify disinformation"?

Is the bar for "amplifying disinformation" as low as quoting US politicians/presidential candidate?

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Re:Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americ... by tim333 on Saturday October 26, 2024 @05:01PM (#41957692)
The statement included no money for the clean up - disinformation, money for a drunken mob of Ukrainian thugs - disinformation, tweeted to 1.3m followers - amplifying. If it was just Dimitry it wouldn't be a big deal but the same is probably going out to thousands of 'US Patriot 457' type bot accounts, their paid $100k/episode shills like Tim Pool, quite likely Tucker and Donald, and so on.
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