The Russians who worked for a notorious St. Petersburg “troll factory” that was part of Vladimir Putin’s campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election were required to watch the “House of Cards” television series to help them craft messages to “set up the Americans against their own government,” according to an interview broadcast Sunday (in Russian) with a former member of the troll factory’s elite English language department.
The interview, broadcast by the independent Russian TV station Rain, provides new insight into how the troll factory formerly known as the Internet Research Agency targeted U.S. audiences in part by posting provocative “comments” pretending to be from Americans on newspaper articles that appeared on the websites of the New York Times and Washington Post.
A central theme of this messaging was demonizing Hillary Clinton by playing up the past scandals of her husband’s administration, her wealth and her use of a private email server, according to the interview with the agency worker, identified only as “Maksim,” with his face concealed.
“Maksim” says he worked for the agency during 2015, the year before the election, when it was already focusing its attention on Clinton.
“The main message is: Are not you, my American brothers, tired of the Clintons? How many have they already been?” Maksim says, adding that he and his colleagues were told to emphasize the Clintons’ past “corruption scandals.”
This Maksim guy went on to say that much of their focus was to stoke discontent among the American people and to increase partisanship.
I have to say that if one wanted to learn how politics works, and how to manipulate people, "House of Cards" is almost a master class.
However of course that was by no means the ONLY way that the Russians learned how to target their messages and spread divisiveness.
No that required help from Americans with real know how.
Gee, I wonder exactly who might have been willing to provide that?
Those dotard drumpf t tards, the loyal inbreds, the gun tootin militia, the spencers and the white nationalist. They will be in florida on Thursday. Gov declared state of emergency ahead of IT.
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“It can help victims not feel quite so alone and make others understand the breadth and depth of the problem.”" It can prevent other assaults and it can expose hypocrites and it can honest-to-God save children from the same fate."
“that nothing will really change in a lasting way until the social consequences for men are too great for them to risk hurting us.”"
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Far as I'm concerned "House of Cards" was part of the manipulation campaign, the longer standing and domestically-brewed edition--albeit perhaps not entirely consciously so. Don't think the Body Count (Clinton smear) folk were actually involved, but they've influenced people.
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