Teri Kanefield: The Russian Disinformation Attack and the Disappearing Rabbit Trick [View all]

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The Russian Disinformation Attack and the Disappearing Rabbit Trick
6 Comments / March 2, 2024
“The more I think about it,” Heather Cox Richardson said this week, “the more it seems the main story of the past decade has been Russian disinformation to undermine U.S. democracy.” This was a notable comment because Richardson follows all the major political stories from the perspective of a political historian, and she has been doing so for years.

I think we should talk about the story and why we are not talking about it more.

Last week, I wrote about the ideological and political connection between the Republicans and Putin’s Russia. If you missed it, start there because seeing the ideological connection between the Republicans and the Russians provides context for the Russian disinformation attack in 2016 and the response of Trump’s campaign.

2016: Russia Launches a Disinformation Attack on the United States

The following information comes mostly from the Senate Report on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 election, the Mueller Report, the indictment of the Internet Research Agency.

The Internet Research Agency (IRA), based in St. Petersburg, was funded by Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin and the Kremlin. In 2014, the IRA conducted an “information warfare campaign designed to spread disinformation and societal division in the United States” and to sway the outcome of the 2016 election.

. . . continues here: https://terikanefield.com/the-russian-disinformation-attack-and-the-disappearing-rabbit-trick/