The U.S. intelligence community believes the Kremlin will direct its propaganda efforts to support former President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election, an intelligence official indicated on a media call Monday.
Iran is likely to continue to try to denigrate Trump, the official said, and China doesn’t appear to have a preference in the presidential race but may try to interfere in congressional races.
The call, held by the Foreign Malign Influence Center, one of the few arms of the U.S. government devoted to countering foreign propaganda campaigns, elaborated on an agency alert about foreign propaganda campaigns released Monday afternoon.
The official’s remarks were the clearest sign yet that the U.S. believes Trump remains Russia’s preferred candidate even after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee.
I can think of at least two accounts that are prolific on Lemmy that almost exclusively post things that align with Russia’s PoV. To anyone that thinks it can’t happen here, I have some prime vacation property to sell to you in Florida.
Anyone on .ml or hexbear basically toes the Russia line.
Oh ho, so I see you love genocide then!
/s
Why yes! I do!
The problem I have with genocide is that there isn’t enough. Why stop with just Jews, or Palestinians? Finish the job, coward! Kill the entire human species! If you really believed in genocide, you’d launch those goddamn missiles yesterday!.
I’d expect so.
I mean, we’d also interfere in Russian elections, if they weren’t a complete sham.
Of course, putin will want his pathetic lapdog in power
USA: long history of interfering with foreign election, and other countries politics with public support for specific candidate.
Russia: do the same.
USA: How can they do that!?
So it’s bad when the U.S. does it but good when Russia does it? Is that what you’re suggesting?
Not directly!
This not real news. This very fake news. Me and friends all vote at Trump because he is good politician man. Is no bots.
Imagine being so insecure that you have to tell people you’re not a robot. I mean honestly, what real person adds “btw not a robot” to their statements?
I can’t think of a better way to out myself as a Russian troll.
I’d argue that the lack of sense of humor is a better indicator of a bot.
Anyone ever tell you that sarcasm doesn’t translate over text unless explicitly declared? What about that comment was supposed to be humorous? Please let me know in detail. Not sure if I accidentally’d a word or what. You clearly have all the info so explain.
Take a break, go outside. You are very intense for no reason. Work on your problems instead of spitting toxicity on strangers online.
You are violently incompetent in deciphering intention.
sarcasm doesn’t translate over text unless explicitly declared
Yes, and you didn’t explicitly declare it. You don’t have to use /s, you can also use things like superlatives.
I am real American man. You are Russian robot. I vote at Trump for freedom election.
Real American man not know American grammar. Not know how speak American. Stay in Russia and starve on potato.
IT SEEMS THIS FELLOW HUMAN DID NOT PROCESS YOUR ASSERTION CORRECTLY
Very fake, comrade. I, a fellow American, will be eating a hamburger and having many decadent mayonnaise salads while voting for trump. He is very manly and killed a bear with only his hands. Is also no bots.
If Trump wins, Putin wins. If Harris wins, Trump starts Civil War II, Putin Wins. Brave New World!
If harris wins putin’s investment is lost.
So, same as the last two elections.
Ok.
100% = “likely”. Good to know.
um russia’s BEEN using propaganda for the last 10 years, to help captain “putin can do whatever the hell he wants” diaperpants
Cadet, not captain. He’s a draft doger.
Bidet
Plenty of people like to be told what to do. Thinking is hard. Just join in with the perpetual rage machine of right-wing ninnery.
I’ll go ahead and file that one under “No shit!”
It’s always disengagement propaganda. They know they’re not going to get the left to vote for Trump. What we need to look out for is manipulated media cutting down Harris to discourage turnout.
We’re guaranteed to see a big wave of misinformation or muckraking with her VP choice.
You mean like: the DNC picked Harris, nobody voted for her, or she’s a prosecutor/cop who locked away hundreds for dime bags of weed, or somehow linked to her being a “border czar” even though she never was one, or her laugh I guess?
Thankfully everything I’ve heard so far is a “throw everything at the wall to see what sticks” approach.
You’re right about the VP pick mudslinging though.
Exactly. It’s been the play for decades. It’s never been about how good the Republican candidate is, just why you shouldn’t vote for the Democrat.
“Russia might continue interfering in international politics while supporting a Russian asset they’ve interfered with international politics before to support”
I know things like this should be pointed out at ANY AND EVERY OPPORTUNITY, because apparently people have short attention spans… But holy shit reading stuff like this just makes me think the average person is so out of touch with reality that they literally need daily reminders that one of the shittiest people they know is still shitty.
The only people who don’t think Russia has something on Trump that makes him an asset that they can use to destabilize politics in a rival country at any and every opportunity, are people somehow ignorant of the last decade of history, useful idiots, and people being paid to think that.
I’m glad we are finally saying this part out loud
Barely. “russia might use propaganda to help trump?” Says former intelligence guy? That’s the most lukewarm take on it possible.
If it was reversed, this shit would be blaring 24/7.
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If you have any questions or comments about me, you can make a post to LW Support lemmy community.Sounds sensible from the Russians.
