Russia had N O T H I N G to do with what happened in Charlottesville. I have seen the perpetrators with my own eyes, been inside their organizing circles, exposed them, and more. Not one trace of Russian involvement.https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1028375273757188097 …
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And that tweet in particular seems to take things even further by claiming Russians "contributed" to the violence. Even Garrett didn't say that.
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It’s just like the suggestion that vote totals were changed. Zero evidence, even though it’s well within the scope of possibility
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Yes, exactly. I think people hear "there's no evidence that it happened" as "we *know* it didn't happen", which are obviously quite different statements with very different implications.
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But you could have a really interesting discussion about how culture functions, and why these sorts of things weren't commonplace a decade ago. I don't believe there are suddenly a bunch of new racists.
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But I’m talking about UTR specifically, and that is an entirely separate topic
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I would say mostly separate, rather than entirely separate. It's unreasonable to blame any specific incident of weather on global climate change, but I do think it is reasonable to segue from weather discussions into climate change discussions.
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The way thinking works is that if there is an active online propaganda campaign and that people who engage with the propagandists have measurably increased beliefs that accord with the campaign, the campaign is likely having an impact.
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I’m not even sure that even if assuming your conditions that be true that the arrow of causality is pointing in the right direction here
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Apparently because you have an agenda item to minimize Russian involvement in a global movement. Not sure why.
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Because I’m a Russian agent
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I doubt that - but your stretching to deny the impact of propaganda, including or especially Russian propaganda, is hard for me to understand.
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Well then consider that I am an activist deeply embedded within these events, a survivor of the terror attack, the victim of a crime, and a party to a major lawsuit and that my knowledge is extremely deep in these matters, so deep that it appeared in a major documentary
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That explains why the topic generally is important to you, but you could consider that as a black american and a professor on sabbatical researching internet propaganda for a new course curriculum, it is important to me too. 1/2
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But none of that explains why you find it so important to erase the connection of Russian propaganda.
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