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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussia has been setting up a network of online news media sleeper sites in the U.S.
Using names that sound like local news sites (or sometimes, local papers that went defunct), they have been posting conventional news stories while they build up readership and trust.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/12/628085238/russian-influence-campaign-sought-to-exploit-americans-trust-in-local-news?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180712
Russia's information attack against the United States during the 2016 election cycle sought to take advantage of the greater trust that Americans tend to place in local news.
The information operatives who worked out of the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg did not stop at posing as American social media users or spreading false information from purported news sources, according to new details.
They also created a number of Twitter accounts that posed as sources for Americans' hometown headlines.
NPR has reviewed information connected with the investigation and found 48 such accounts. They have names such as @ElPasoTopNews, @MilwaukeeVoice, @CamdenCityNews and @Seattle_Post.
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OnDoutside
(19,949 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)uponit7771
(90,329 posts)BadgerMom
(2,770 posts)This as Kirstjen Nielsen tells us theres no need to worry because Russian interference isnt as bad as 2016. She forgot one word: yet.
Liberty Belle
(9,533 posts)But how many are still lurking on FB or other social media?
secondwind
(16,903 posts)joshcryer
(62,269 posts)It was first used successfully in 2008.
Between 2011 and 2018 it has been used with mix results in many countries to manipulate and manage their societal foundations.
Laffy Kat
(16,376 posts)Attacking us from the inside out.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)dalton99a
(81,426 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)mitch96
(13,885 posts)In the early 1950's the russians tried to help Stevenson's campaign against Eisenhower.. What did Stevenson do? He went straight to the Whitehouse and told Eisenhower what was going on.. The red menace was always trying to fuck with our elections.. Especially if the person running was anti russian.
This time they hit with the orange menace...
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Shanti Mama
(1,288 posts)in the government is working on this.