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“Even today, Russian Facebook posts and tweets can wrack up hundreds of thousands of likes and regularly find their way into real news. They have gotten so good at viral content, and they know where to find it.” @DarrenLinvill washingtonpost.com/politics/russi…
“..Just last week a Russian Twitter account drew more than 33,000 retweets for a video of a white woman in Dallas threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement on a taco truck.” @GregJaffe @craigtimberg 2/
”...After an online poll, the Russian troll account dubbed the woman “Taco Truck Tammy,” a moniker picked up by newspaper and television stations.” 3/
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Pompeo’s statement about the Russians dissuading Maduro at the last minute from leaving power in Venezuela plays right into Putin’s hands b/c it makes Russia look like it’s 10 ft tall —and gives the Kremlin what it really wants: America’s attention @AlexGabuev
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Andrew S. Weiss
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Don’t let the outrage over this patently absurd story obscure the fact that Donald Trump has been recycling the Kremlin’s talking points on #Ukraine since at least mid-2016
This one never gets old. Here’s video of Trump from July 2016:
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Trump totally threw Ukraine under the bus at his notorious first Oval Office meeting w Russian FM Lavrov in May 2017 where he bragged about firing “nut job” James Comey
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THREAD I’m totally aghast by reports that US ambassador in #Ukraine is being removed in the wake of intense scandal-mongering by Trump fake news machine. Amb. Marie Yovanovitch is a fine career diplomat who’s been subjected to a stream of insane accusations for the past year. 1/
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