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The troll farms were the crude layer. What metastasized since 2018 is the laundering: Kremlin lines seeded in fringe media, then picked up by US influencers and treated as legitimate debate on air. CBC could air that in 2018. Most networks wont touch the pipeline now.

a great read of the situation, and it of course culminated (far too late imo) in the Tenet Media indictments. today, Head Kremlin-asset Mobster is doing all the talking and media is happy to run the lies bsky.app/profile/tvmo...

Joe Adalian@tvmojoe.bsky.social

Watching how NBC News frames the vicious attack ad on Amy Acton here made me nauseous. It pushes the worst part of the GOP smear and then just quotes a written statement from her brother denying it. NBC should be ashamed. This whole segement is garbage, btw youtu.be/__ZGwBIc7dU?...

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A caution that Tenet indictments weren't a culmination, just an example. Disinfo operations can be pretty disaggregated, with lots of different things happening at once. Tenet was one instance with a pretty sloppy, blatant, easy to follow connection. (We still indicted only the Russian handlers.)

"culmination" was definitely a bad word choice and not entirely correct, thanks for checking me on that. also want to emphasize your "disinfo ops can be disaggregated" because that's a truth bomb. intentional or not, transnational rateffers almost always act in "fits and starts"