Collage of tweets that are part of a coordinated information operation targeting the US government.

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   Caroline Orr Bueno (rvawonk@newsie.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 01:38:24 JST Caroline Orr Bueno

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   I first noted this campaign on Twitter a week ago, when I saw an unusual number of tweets not just expressing the same idea, but using the same specific phrase (“fund Hawaii not Ukraine”) to do so. So I decided to look into it.

   While I was doing that, right-wing media picked up the narrative…. Then Russian state media started amplifying it… And then a few days later, Chinese state media joined in, too.

   At that point, I knew I was looking at something interesting…