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« on: April 19, 2021, 10:33:26 PM »

https://news.yahoo.com/report-china-russia-fueling-q-anon-conspiracy-theories-090027767.html

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Foreign-based actors, principally in China and Russia, are spreading online disinformation rooted in QAnon conspiracy theories, fueling a movement that has become a mounting domestic terrorism threat, according to new analysis of online propaganda by a security firm.

The analysis by the Soufan Center, a New York-based research firm focused on national security threats, found that nearly one-fifth of 166,820 QAnon-related Facebook posts between January 2020 and the end of February 2021 originated from overseas administrators.

An advance copy of the report, which is being released today, was provided to Yahoo News.

“It’s very alarming,” said Jason Blazakis, a senior research fellow at the Soufan Center and a former State Department counterterrorism official who is one of the authors of the report. “We have enough problems without the amplification of conspiracy theories by foreign actors, and that foreign impact really does stir up a hornet’s nest.”

The report injects a new element into the debate about how to counter QAnon — a bizarre but increasingly widespread conspiracy movement that has pushed the idea that the U.S. government is secretly run by Satan worshipers involved in a global sex trafficking ring.

Speaking to lawmakers last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray expressed concern that the extremist nature of the movement could lead to violence, citing as an example the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. He said the bureau is preparing a formal “threat assessment” of QAnon that he expects to share with Congress “very shortly.”
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« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2021, 05:57:23 AM »

In other news, water is wet.
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« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2021, 06:40:08 AM »

In fact, we're proudly fueling conspiracies of the both sides!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/24/russias-disinformation-campaigns-are-targeting-african-americans/
Russia’s disinformation campaigns are targeting African Americans
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Of all the hashtags we found, the most commonly used was #blacklivesmatter, with 2,109 mentions, followed by #racism (1,381), #policebrutality (1,159), and #blackexcellence (805). We see a similar pattern for word pairs in a tweet. The most used word pairs typically had racial justice themes: “African American,” “police officer,” “lives matter,” “black people” and “human rights.”

Initially, there was a near-equal distribution between positive and negative words when we analyzed the entire data set. However, once we estimated the sentiment of each individual tweet, we found a significantly higher proportion of negative tweets (59.9 percent) than positive (22.4 percent) and neutral (17.7 percent) tweets. The three most common words in the tweets coded as having a negative sentiment were “racism,” “black” and “police,” while the top three most common words in the positive tweets were “love,” “black” and “beautiful.”

Most of the visual content revolved around the plight of African Americans. On the one hand, positive images and videos featured stories about black excellence and achievements that helped further scientific, technological and social progress. On the other, negative visuals typically showed incidents of police brutality or white Americans doing something racist.
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« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2021, 02:57:57 PM »

In fact, we're proudly fueling conspiracies of the both sides!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/24/russias-disinformation-campaigns-are-targeting-african-americans/
Russia’s disinformation campaigns are targeting African Americans
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Of all the hashtags we found, the most commonly used was #blacklivesmatter, with 2,109 mentions, followed by #racism (1,381), #policebrutality (1,159), and #blackexcellence (805). We see a similar pattern for word pairs in a tweet. The most used word pairs typically had racial justice themes: “African American,” “police officer,” “lives matter,” “black people” and “human rights.”

Initially, there was a near-equal distribution between positive and negative words when we analyzed the entire data set. However, once we estimated the sentiment of each individual tweet, we found a significantly higher proportion of negative tweets (59.9 percent) than positive (22.4 percent) and neutral (17.7 percent) tweets. The three most common words in the tweets coded as having a negative sentiment were “racism,” “black” and “police,” while the top three most common words in the positive tweets were “love,” “black” and “beautiful.”

Most of the visual content revolved around the plight of African Americans. On the one hand, positive images and videos featured stories about black excellence and achievements that helped further scientific, technological and social progress. On the other, negative visuals typically showed incidents of police brutality or white Americans doing something racist.
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« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2021, 05:02:59 PM »

In fact, we're proudly fueling conspiracies of the both sides!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/24/russias-disinformation-campaigns-are-targeting-african-americans/
Russia’s disinformation campaigns are targeting African Americans
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Of all the hashtags we found, the most commonly used was #blacklivesmatter, with 2,109 mentions, followed by #racism (1,381), #policebrutality (1,159), and #blackexcellence (805). We see a similar pattern for word pairs in a tweet. The most used word pairs typically had racial justice themes: “African American,” “police officer,” “lives matter,” “black people” and “human rights.”

Initially, there was a near-equal distribution between positive and negative words when we analyzed the entire data set. However, once we estimated the sentiment of each individual tweet, we found a significantly higher proportion of negative tweets (59.9 percent) than positive (22.4 percent) and neutral (17.7 percent) tweets. The three most common words in the tweets coded as having a negative sentiment were “racism,” “black” and “police,” while the top three most common words in the positive tweets were “love,” “black” and “beautiful.”

Most of the visual content revolved around the plight of African Americans. On the one hand, positive images and videos featured stories about black excellence and achievements that helped further scientific, technological and social progress. On the other, negative visuals typically showed incidents of police brutality or white Americans doing something racist.
Why are you not banned?

Quoting a WaPo article is a bannable offense now? or do you just think anyone who contradicts your worldview ought to get the boot?
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« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2021, 10:45:29 PM »

While Russian Bear is most likely a Russian agent, nothing he’s done breaks the ToS. Still would like for him to leave, I enjoyed his absence greatly.
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« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2021, 07:47:24 AM »

Well, I put Forumlurker161 on ignore for a reason...
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« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2021, 03:01:32 AM »

In fact, we're proudly fueling conspiracies of the both sides!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/24/russias-disinformation-campaigns-are-targeting-african-americans/
Russia’s disinformation campaigns are targeting African Americans
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Of all the hashtags we found, the most commonly used was #blacklivesmatter, with 2,109 mentions, followed by #racism (1,381), #policebrutality (1,159), and #blackexcellence (805). We see a similar pattern for word pairs in a tweet. The most used word pairs typically had racial justice themes: “African American,” “police officer,” “lives matter,” “black people” and “human rights.”

Initially, there was a near-equal distribution between positive and negative words when we analyzed the entire data set. However, once we estimated the sentiment of each individual tweet, we found a significantly higher proportion of negative tweets (59.9 percent) than positive (22.4 percent) and neutral (17.7 percent) tweets. The three most common words in the tweets coded as having a negative sentiment were “racism,” “black” and “police,” while the top three most common words in the positive tweets were “love,” “black” and “beautiful.”

Most of the visual content revolved around the plight of African Americans. On the one hand, positive images and videos featured stories about black excellence and achievements that helped further scientific, technological and social progress. On the other, negative visuals typically showed incidents of police brutality or white Americans doing something racist.

Okay this is a hilarious burn, you get 10/10 for kicking where it hurts.
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« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2021, 07:14:11 AM »

Russia?  Yes.

China?  No.

Thus the report is flawed.   
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« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2021, 07:03:33 PM »

In fact, we're proudly fueling conspiracies of the both sides!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/24/russias-disinformation-campaigns-are-targeting-african-americans/
Russia’s disinformation campaigns are targeting African Americans
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Of all the hashtags we found, the most commonly used was #blacklivesmatter, with 2,109 mentions, followed by #racism (1,381), #policebrutality (1,159), and #blackexcellence (805). We see a similar pattern for word pairs in a tweet. The most used word pairs typically had racial justice themes: “African American,” “police officer,” “lives matter,” “black people” and “human rights.”

Initially, there was a near-equal distribution between positive and negative words when we analyzed the entire data set. However, once we estimated the sentiment of each individual tweet, we found a significantly higher proportion of negative tweets (59.9 percent) than positive (22.4 percent) and neutral (17.7 percent) tweets. The three most common words in the tweets coded as having a negative sentiment were “racism,” “black” and “police,” while the top three most common words in the positive tweets were “love,” “black” and “beautiful.”

Most of the visual content revolved around the plight of African Americans. On the one hand, positive images and videos featured stories about black excellence and achievements that helped further scientific, technological and social progress. On the other, negative visuals typically showed incidents of police brutality or white Americans doing something racist.

i lived in Russia, speak Russian, and studied the specific data on this. This is 100% true. To whatever extent you can blame Russia for Trump (not much), you can also blame them for BLM.
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« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2021, 11:26:03 AM »

Oh, like how the US supports Falun Gong and Euromaiden?
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« Reply #11 on: April 29, 2021, 01:25:06 PM »

Russia and the PRC know they can not do better than the US (or the West) does without bringing the US down.  They know they can't do it externally so they pull this sh**t.  If we were smarter sheep and maybe not so easily pushed onto a political team it could never work.  Unfortunately it's easy to get Americans (because we are humans) to hate each other because of slightly different personnel politics as history has shown us.  We could, ya know, not be c**nts to each other, but that's hard..."Uncle Steve is a racist and he voted for Trump, TWICE?  How can I not hate him?"  Because you're an adult and not in middle school anymore, that's how.
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« Reply #12 on: April 29, 2021, 03:25:14 PM »

Oh, like how the US supports Falun Gong and Euromaiden?

1) Whataboutism

2) The US only "supports" Falun Gong to the extent that it's legally allowed to operate here, just like any other religious group/political movement. I can't think of any senior government official who has voiced support for Falun Gong, and if anyone has, they were almost certainly on the Bannon/Miller fringe right.

3) I can't see how Maidan possibly gets lumped in with QAnon and Falun Gong when the latter two are both fringe cult movements and the former is a very broad-based protest movement with very basic and mainstream democratic goals and easily-provable and legitimate grievances. And sure, plenty of crazies on both sides have taken advantage of the instability in Ukraine to further extremist agendas, but it's a huge stretch to consider groups like the Azov Battalion as one and the same with the much larger Maidan movement. You'd have to be pretty much a total Yanukovych hack to try to put Maidan as a whole on any kind of even footing with Falun Gong or QAnon.
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