Our guide in exploring Russia’s presence on the African continent is Philip Obaji Jr, a Nigerian journalist investigating the war crimes committed by the Wagner Group in the Central African Republic. Ukrainska Pravda investigates how Russian neocolonialism works in Africa
    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      I’m glad you said, “so called” leftists/tankies. This is from 2015 and they talk about mixing up the ideologies on purpose.

      “Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”

      The goal is to keep opinions we don’t want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can,…

      https://archive.is/PoUMo

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPM
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        1 month ago

        I thought that guy was talking about organized shilling for corporate interests? Not geopolitical ones? I mean I’m sure the tactics are the same (actually I’m sure they are orders of magnitude more sophisticated now when done by state actors), just wanted to correct the record about that particular person.

        • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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          1 month ago

          Why do you want to correct the record? It was about politics anyway, whether this guy admits it or not. Cambridge Analytica was a thing.