“Examples include unverified maps showing widespread pollution, posts predicting an increase in fatal cancers and others about unconfirmed mass animal die-offs.”
Try googling “mass animal die offs in Idaho”. Many mainstream sources have covered and verified this happening. Sound the alarm about long term health problems such as increased cancer risk is just common sense and should be taken seriously.
“Biden offers food, water, medicine, shelter, payouts of pension and social services to Ukraine! Ohio first! Offer and deliver to Ohio!” posted one of the pro-Moscow accounts, which boasts 25,000 followers and features an anonymous location and a profile photo of a dog. Twitter awarded the account a blue check mark in January.”
Yes this is a common sentiment shared by many Americans who have isolationist views on foreign policy, their views might be useful to the Russians but it doesn’t mean they are wrong or have bad intentions for holding them.
“Regularly spewing anti-US propaganda, the accounts show how easily authoritarian states and Americans willing to spread their
propaganda can
exploitsocial mediaplatforms like
Twitter in an effort to steer domestic discourse.”
That is pretty funny coming from AP news. These people lack any self awareness.
The rest of the article is just crying that the blue check mark on Twitter isn’t being handed out by leftists and that anyone can get one if they pay $8, even Russian trolls. It then tries to frame all right wing push back about Biden admins response and priorities as Russian propaganda which it isn’t.
It’s getting kind of silly how seriously the media takes Russia’s disinformation campaigns and tries to scapegoat it anytime someone has a successful argument against their defense of Biden.
“At first, the derailment received little attention online but mentions grew steadily, peaking two weeks after the incident, Zignal found, a time lag that gave pro-Russia voices time to try to shape the conversation.”
This actually is interesting and counter productive to the AP’s earlier argument in the article.
“Some of the claims pushed by the pro-Russian accounts were verifiably false, such as the suggestion that the
news media had covered up the disaster”
Yeah the media did kind of cover it up by not focusing on it, if Trump was in office Ohio train derailment would be all that would be going on and they would be hammering him every day over it, like they should be. It’s one thing to post an article about it, it’s another thing to spread it.