The far left (and far right) in the West are played like a fiddle by Russia.
Have you ever heard of Olginos? Also known as “Russian Troll Factories”? They are misinformation organisations that spread pro-Russia/anti-West shite across Russia and into the West. They also start conspiracy theories or spread misinformation around emotive topics, or stoke fires around incidents and create furores that antagonise groups of people into getting wound-up and even into taking action.
This was one of the very first things Putin started doing when he took power in 2000. He took over Russian state TV and made it a pro-Putin/anti-West propaganda station. Then he spread it into different countries. It’s why we should never have allowed RT to broadcast in this country.
Then with the rise of the internet and social media, these Olginos or Troll Factories were created and would flood Russian social media platforms with this same pro-Putin/anti-West rhetoric all over comments sections and chat rooms. They then employed English speaking employees who spread the same shite across our online platforms in the West: YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, forums (just like ours!) would have these Russian bots posting their pro-Putin/anti-West bollocks day-after-day, hour-after-hour.
The far left in the West hate Western society and our governments (Christ, they even hate the slightly less left wing left wing!). These bots have spread misinformation about NATO-expansionism, NATO-imperialism, NATO’s threat to Russia, NATO antagonising Russia… the far left here fucking love that shit, and it just becomes part of the topics of every day conversations online.
Look at Jeremy Corbyn and his merry band with their protest against NATO countries sending weapons to Ukraine and the West’s antagonising of Russia. On their website, there are 7 words to start a paragraph off about condemning Russia’s invasion and the rest of the paragraph is moaning about the West/NATO!
People on the extremes of politics and social issues are easily exposed to and often trapped in algorithms and online echo chambers. Even those who get a broader scope often just ignore what they don’t like and won’t take it on board. These people are easily swayed and manipulated with continual exposure and repeated tropes.
These Troll Factories spread across every political and social issue you could possibly imagine. They’re open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week hammering us with fake news, and influential and manipulative language.
It’ll be the same with the founders and most extreme supporters of things like Black Lives Matter. While the well-meaning supporters who follow them because they simply think that black lives matter; the core of that movement describe themselves as Marxist and anti-capitalist and there’s a lot of anti-West and anti-white sentiment in their extreme end too. Their online algorithms will be feeding them all kinds of bollocks in their online echo chambers with misinformation sloshing around spread by the Troll Factories.
It’s the same over on the far right n’all. They love a conspiracy theory and the Troll Factories start, spread, and spam them all over social media.
QAnon, white genocide, Covid conspiracies, anti-vaccers, global warming hoax, chemtrails, Holocaust denial etc. will all be Troll Factory rooted. Those paranoid far right nutters hate “MSM” and access their news from all sorts of utterly crazy places. Where they are trapped in their end of algorithms and echo chambers is frightening!
There’s obviously a lot of racism over on the far right as well. Trump/MAGA, and Brexit/immigration topics will have been rife for Troll Factory involvement.
The Leave campaign was full of this misinformation spread by Russia. As was a hell of a lot of the going on in the MAGA and Trump years, with interference in the election drives of Clinton and Biden.
There are negativity spammers from the Factories as well, spreading doom+gloom and forever repeating how shit things are around different topics.
There’s so much anti-West and conspiracy shit talked about by the extreme ends that these topics, and what were once extreme minorities, are forever nudging ever closer into normal ways of thinking and moderate politics with a worryingly ever growing support.
The FBI put undercover employees in the Troll Factories last decade, and there have also been ex-employees who’ve come forward to the West to admit what went on there. For example, here in these articles:
The Russian troll factory at the heart of the meddling allegations | Russia | The Guardian
Former workers tell how hundreds of bloggers are paid to flood forums and social networks at home and abroad with anti-western and pro-Kremlin commentsamp.theguardian.com
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They’re really good reads!
I’ve been banging on about this sort of thing for years. I feel like people don’t really take much notice of me and dismiss what I say on it, but maybe now they will start to take it on board a bit more with what’s currently unfolding.
I’ve spoken before in this thread about Putin’s aims. And they are two-fold:
1. Disrupt, create divisions, and weaken in the West
2. Expand Russia
He’s been doing #1 for over two decades, and doing it very well! He’s been doing #2 in Georgia since 2008 and Ukraine since 2014. But he’s really ramped up #2 these past few weeks. Although, it’s not going anywhere near as well as he did with #1, and this might be the very thing that smashes his gains made with #1 as it unites the West where it has been continually divided for too long!
Fantastic post mate.