”They are afraid of losing the American way of life and the ‘American dream,’” Ilya Gambashidze, an architect of the project, wrote, outlining his scheme. “It is these sentiments that should be exploited in the course of an information campaign in/for the United States.” To do so, the Russian government would emphasize that Republicans are “victims of discrimination of people of color” and promote conspiracies that white middle-class people are being discriminated against.
The “guerrilla media” plan needed to not only plant falsehoods, but also spread them far and wide. They targeted gamers and chatroom users, who they described as the “backbone of the right-wing trends in the US segment of the Internet,” and monitored social media influencers. The Russians planned to build relationships with prolific posters who were “proponents of traditional values, who stand up for ending the war in Ukraine and peaceful relations between the US and Russia, and who are ready to get involved in the promotion of the project narratives.”
“We need influencers! A lot of them and everywhere. We are ready to wine and dine them,” wrote Gambashidze in a note from a meeting with Russian government officials.
brickyardjimmy on September 7th, 2024 at 14:31 UTC »
This is actually going to help make a lot of confusing things make sense finally. I am totally eager to start getting this shit out in the open. That way, those of us who are actual Americans, invested in the American ideal, who have been scratching our heads at the disingenuous way some online personalities talk and how totally unAmerican it seems for the past decade, now we know we weren't just losing our minds. A huge number of Americans accepted profits from another nation state to sell the rest of us out.
Fuck them. And fuck the blood money they pocketed.
McG0788 on September 7th, 2024 at 14:16 UTC »
LEAK THE LIST
GertonX on September 7th, 2024 at 13:53 UTC »
2800?
Anyone have a list