What's interesting here is that these are exactly the same lies that the Trump admin and campaign and its botnets and other enablers were pushing. Different language, same bullshit. It's like that all over the world
https://twitter.com/ciromurayamaine/status/1392566548250959873
That's how I know it's been coordinated. It's formulaic, swaps out regional details but keeps the overall plots, and weaponized disformation only ever exists to attack democratic norms and human rights. A global, far right power grab.
France, late April: bbc.com/news/world-eur…
USA, today: businessinsider.com/former-general…
But I mean it's been like this. Disinfo purveyors will use something successful, sit on it for a couple of weeks or months, and then repurpose it. People are tense and distracted anyway because of everything else going on, and it's the easiest thing in the world to spread online
January 2020, wild rumors of arson rather than climate change exacerbating fires in Australia bbc.com/news/world-511…
Americans might find that peculiarly familiar, considering that it was repurposed a few months later, as it was built to do, but with an added wrinkle (and bullshit statistics like that previous "75%" being used to back them up) kval.com/news/local/sto…
Then, of course, there's QAnon. It's not that it was exported anywhere so much as this massive weaponized narrative, essentially a roadmap of all the bigotries and biases from which US conspiracy theories are spun, reflects those of other populations too
cnn.com/2021/04/23/tec…
cnn.com/2021/04/23/tec…
Remember this from 2016? Trump's repellent anti-immigrant attack ads which used reappropriated photos and footage? theintercept.com/liveblogs/trum…
Two months earlier, same messaging, same reappropriation. The image in this case showed people in Slovenia, not Hungary. But neither showed either the UK or the USA. theguardian.com/politics/2016/…
Now, what entities might benefit tremendously from a distracted, weakened, infighting USA, UK, and EU?
Oh yeah, who can forget a few years ago when a presidential campaign was hacked and Wikileaks and far right enablers were sharing emails from it in order to create weaponized narratives and push wild smears? No, not that one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Macr…
All this and I completely missed that there was a second letter in France at the same time as that weird US one that was evidently written in weird broken English 🤔 Well I'm sure it's just a coincidence! france24.com/en/france/2021…
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