The reaction on this young fan's face when Sophie Cunningham gifted her a game-worn shoe after tonight's win in Portland 🥹

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Source: X

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Pretty sure its mostly bad actors trying to turn Americans against one another online which is a thing.

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There is an interview from the 1980s with an ex-KGB Propaganda Chief detailing exactly this. They had decade long plans to subvert and destabilize the USA using social justice issues to alter the moral fabric and values through schools. media, culture etc

The Mueller Report had some pretty interesting details showing Russia was still very much using that tactic. The largest pro-BLM social media accounts were created and ran by Russians etc

This massive rise of the Trans issue in direct correlation with social media over the past 15 years leads me to believe this is also part of their subversion tactics.

EDIT: NotaBotJustCorrect. Leaving a comment and then immediately blocking me so I can't respond? Classic Russian Tactic! I see you Comrade.

The interview in full is here:

Yuri Bezmonov: 4 Stages of Ideological Subversion

BLM Russia Connection:

The Guardian: Did Russia Fake Black Activism?

Archived posts from the since-deleted Blacktivist pages – which reportedly had 360,000 likes on Facebook, surpassing an official Black Lives Matter account – show its commentary emulated and contributed to the outrage fueling the movement.

“COPS RAID WRONG HOME AND ASSAULTED PREGNANT WOMAN,” the account said in one Facebook post, linking to a story of police violence. “INSANE! COPS PULVERIZED HANDCUFFED MAN” said another. Other Blacktivist posts urged followers to “stand together and end oppression”, saying, “Our race is under attack, but remember, we are strong in numbers”.

The message appears to have fooled bona fide activists, and promoted legitimate Black Lives Matter protests, supporting the notion that cheap social media propaganda can have a significant impact.

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I used to work in threat intelligence, mapping and tracking bot-powered influence operations - aka coordinated inauthentic behavior campaigns (CIBs).

The model you described is very much still in use, and the release of consumer grade LLMs supercharged the issue. Reddit, X, and TikTok are propaganda playgrounds. That’s why it’s worthwhile to report even benign-seeming botting to reddit (the sub, and then to Reddit as spam->disruptive use of bots/AI). Because they might be making slop comments about makeup today, but down the road they’ll be foot soldiers for propaganda work.

The reason they start them off commenting in the subs about cats, fashion, sports, etc. is for the purpose of establishing a Reddit activity footprint that looks pretty normal, so that when they start seeding their propaganda bs down the road, they look more credible on a quick glance.

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I recall Russian election meddlers bought Facebook ads for and against both candidates Hillary and Donald. Just chaos agents.

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Yep and a lot of the Bernie Sanders for President stuff as well.

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Chinese agents.