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From IC friend; The Kremlin has stepped up covert influence campaigns against the left on social media, using fake opposition & ‘social justice’ as cover to run their opponents out of DC (see: Sen. Franken), and by leveraging compromised Dem politicians. 1/
From IC friend; The Kremlin has stepped up covert influence campaigns against the left on social media, using fake opposition & ‘social justice’ as cover to run their opponents out of DC (see: Sen. Franken), and by leveraging compromised Dem politicians. 1/
Moscow increasingly sees the GOP as dead-in-the-water, and is now looking to corrupt the left to continue inflicting havoc on our politics long enough to dismantle the liberal democratic order. 2/
There is little difference between alt-right’s ‘America first’ FP doctrine & far- left’s FP doctrine of slashing US defense spending & increasing social spending— or withdrawing US from it’s global security mission for domestic political programs. 3/
Information warfare experts in St. Petersburg believe segments of the US electorate on the left can be manipulated with similar success as segments on the far-right were during 2016. 4/
Jury is out on whether they hope to sabotage the left by promoting platforms & candidates who are unelectable to aid right-wing candidates, or if they plan to focus on controlling the left now that the right has been caught & exposed. 5/
Social media manipulation using bots is at the highest levels since 2016. Conversations & discord on both sides of the Twitter algorithmic divide are being controlled, steered, manipulated, and inflamed by Kremlin + US trolls. 6/
Some MSM outlets/journalists have been compromised and are helping inflame electorate segments. Additionally, some of the larger outlets have hired PR firms to attack & discredit citizen journalists on social media in an attempt to protect their outdated business models. 7/
The Kremlin may try to promote unelectable or inexperienced candidates who can either be torn down/controlled (much like tRUmp is) by kompromat, or by using their inexperience & unwillingness to confront complicated foreign aggression, which helps Moscow’s plan(s). 8/
Currently, the biggest fear in the halls of the Kremlin is SECDEF Mattis becoming POTUS, which they see as a ‘game changer.’ They’re currently laying the social media infrastructure for a dezinformatsiya campaign against him + McMaster. 9/
Focus of this campaign will leverage Pres. Obama’s firing of Mattis to turn the left against him and towards an “identity politics candidate they can electorally defeat or control.” 10/
Bottom line: Be weary of social media movements pushing suspicious narratives. Don’t fall for the lure of reverting to extremist politics like in 2016. And don’t help Moscow run its opponents out of DC like Dems did with Sen. Franken. 11/
We must put aside domestic politics & focus on saving the liberal democratic order. If we don’t, it will fall to tyranny. This isn’t hyperbole. Moscow doesn’t want the political center to rise up & become dominant. Keep that in mind going forward. /end.
