Is it possible that Vlad Putin is telling deranged right wingers to espouse racist conspiracies they've espoused for years? Sure. Or...
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In any case, many many many people used The Gizmo to claim that Russia spread that hashtag. This report points to Breitbart, not RU.
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I am acutely interested in rel between Russia, Breitbart, Alex Jones, et al. But AFAWK Breitbart's $$ comes from US. American assholes
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Article does mention the most prolific tweeter of the hashtag is an employee of Sputnik.
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That's not actually what it claims. And the claim it DOES make is thoroughly undermined by the entire rest of the article.
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Second most prolific sorry
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Where does it say that?
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That was pretty clear. RU is not behind everything.
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And yet ... the NYT reported the opposite and bajillions of otherwise intelligent people RTed it.
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Sorry I appreciate you using your respected voice to debunk it. Just shocked it is even given such credence.
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America is undergoing serious cognitive rot these days.
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I thought point was origination by alt-right and rapid amplification by RU bots network. It's kinda a symbiotic system at this point...
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This is why I have been skeptical of this Russian propaganda angle. All the stories had been circulating on rw internet for a decade.
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