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   Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 22:44:29 JST Warner Crocker

   I don’t understand why folks are so shocked that Russian $$ funded this election interference effort.

   Some call this indictment the tip of an iceberg.

   It’s more like a drop in an ocean of $$.

   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/05/tim-pool-benny-johnson-influencers-russia-disinformation

   #politics

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     Peter Cohen (flargh@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 22:53:16 JST Peter Cohen

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     John Francis (johnefrancis@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 23:03:38 JST John Francis

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     @WarnerCrocker this is a tiny piece.

     The overall Russian election interference will eclipse it.

     Domestic election interference via unrestricted political financing will eclipse that.

     Domestic election interference outside of political financing will eclipse that. IMHO, the largest propaganda body is commercial nd entertainment. This sets the table for politics.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 23:04:45 JST Warner Crocker

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     @johnefrancis And it’s not just Russian.

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     John Francis (johnefrancis@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 23:14:54 JST John Francis

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     @WarnerCrocker the Russians would love to have the influence machine of "normal TV and Hollywood". Most of it isn't explicitly partisan, but endlessly reinforces the myths needed to prop up wealth capitalism....the American dream "work hard and you can have anything"... "taxes fund govt services" etc

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     Harry (archibald_tuttle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 23:36:06 JST Harry

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     Influence-bro says: "Never at any point did anyone other than I [sic] have full editorial control of the show" but claims to be a victim for accepting $10M to create and spread exactly the disinformation he was asked to.