According to an investigation, a network of 53 Facebook pages has been amplifying French-language videos promoting the Kremlin’s line on the war in Ukraine, starting in March. The pages share the common traits of “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” a term used by Meta, Facebook’s parent company, to describe when pages misrepresent themselves and work together in pursuit of specific political or financial goals. Together, the accounts have a combined 4.3 million followers, more than that of similar high-profile networks in Africa such as “Russosphère,” a web of Francophone pages operating across social media platforms that was exposed earlier this year.
When I thought of warfare during the Information Age, I always thought of hacker-types like out of the movies, staring at their complex of monitors and poring through code looking for exploits.
What I did not picture, is arguing with what seems in all ways to be an endless stream of semi-intelligent, extremely angry teens, dead-set on making sure a reality TV star and his salt-of-the-Earth fans runs the US, and convincing your uncle on facebook how great an idea it is.
So, can we hurry the fuck up with this superconductor thing so we can get to the next age already? That might help, maybe.
I noticed that when I respond to Putin’s Bots and ask them if they are concerned to get drafted since their propaganda is failing they never answer.
If you respond to their straw men and whataboutism they argue with you for days and days.
I mean, 15 years ago I was doing stuff like that online just for fun. I was immature as hell though.
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Russia will simply destabilize anything it can. They tried to get all of Africa, but it turns out they can see through their bullshit like everyone else, so they’ve decided to fuck with a handful of countries instead. These countries, by the way, are often responsible for vast diamond mining operations, with Russia being the number one country for both sourcing and laundering blood diamonds on the planet.
The people organizing this shit are the ones who are becoming African mining oligarchs. It’s essentially the same as Russia’s attempted playbook in Ukraine.
Maybe ukraine should focus on advancing on their counter offensive more this time, cause Wagner is comming back , and the west are eagerly waiting for your enemy’s defeat