The Daily Populous Thursday September 5th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by politico.eu and submitted by enkrstic

The documents were obtained by the FBI and filed in a court affidavit as part of Wednesday’s indictments. The 277-page dossier details Russian plans to win over Europeans' hearts and minds.

One memo from Russia’s “Social Design Agency” described a plan to target people via real posts and comments on social media to circumvent social media companies' bot filters.

The Social Design Agency acts under the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s deputy chief of staff Sergey Kiriyenko, according to the FBI court affidavit.

The Russian document says the goal of the campaign is to “evoke in the audience rational (such as, 'really, why do WE need to help Ukraine?') and emotional (such as, 'Americans are such scumbags!') reactions.”

The psy-ops also relied on so-called doppelgänger domains to spread fake articles and content made to look like they came from Western media outlets.

The domains included fakes of Reuters, Der Spiegel, Bild, Le Monde, Le Parisien, Welt, FAZ, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Delfi and others, and were paid for with cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, according to the FBI affidavit.

Nico198X on September 5th, 2024 at 09:48 UTC »

so can we, like, DO SOMETHING!?

Emgimeer on September 5th, 2024 at 08:00 UTC »

I want to know the 32 domain names, as well as ALL the "influencers" that took money.

Thanks DoJ!

You ALL have to read these documents! They are in relation to the case this article talks about, but these exhibits are related to the US, not Europe.

Full Text of case

Exhibit A: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1366201/dl

Exhibit B: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1366196/dl

Exhibit C: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1366191/dl

IMO, I wish this went a lot faster, but maybe catching them earlier wouldn't have made much difference and it's better to have gotten them all so deeply red handed and able to put them all away and make examples of them?

Adidassla on September 5th, 2024 at 07:59 UTC »

Lots of politicians in the parliaments involved too. People from the far right German AFD and national-socialist BSW getting financed by Russian contacts. It’s hard to investigate though because of parliamentary immunity.