russian influence operations straight out of TMIL

Propaganda Machine: Secret documents reveal Russia’s foreign influence strategy across three continents - Forbidden Stories

i’m honestly not sure what to make of this article. i know next to nothing about the folks at forbidden stories. that said, fresh off a reading of trust me, i’m lying i find it almost impossible not to see some of the same techniques in use here.

ratcheting the timeline back 20+ years … we were right, the web did democratize a whole bunch of stuff. notably, it made continent scale misinformation campaigns remarkably cheap, easy and effeective.