Why yes, @peterpomeranzev wrote about it yrs ago. It's an innovation from a country that had decades of totalitarian rule, then took that media culture & adapted it in a new technological context where it had no control over foreign social networks dominating its domestic market.https://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/1031599932015169536 …
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"Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible" from 2014 is a must-read. It shows how these techniques were refined over the last two decades. Russia could not have a Great Firewall like China, so it had to find another way. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L4FSVZ6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 …pic.twitter.com/WN86GaJNkA
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From late 2014, covering Surkov's nearly two-decade career as chief ad man, spokesperson, neo-propagandist in Russia. This technique of political disinformation, illusion and theater that was refined there is now being exported to the U.S. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/hidden-author-putinism-russia-vladislav-surkov/382489/ …pic.twitter.com/I3pikgZKCo
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.@TimothyDSnyder described Trump as "the payload of a cyberweapon" in his book this year, "The Road to Unfreedom." https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074YM8W91/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 …pic.twitter.com/5ZyYPkkWtx
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