How Russia Harvested American Rage to Reshape U.S. Politics
- 7 years ago
How Russia Harvested American Rage to Reshape U.S. Politics
The Russian pages — with names like “Being Patriotic,” “Secured Borders”
and “Blacktivist” — cribbed complaints about federal agents from one conservative website, and a gauzy article about a veteran who became an entrepreneur from People magazine.
A New York Times examination of hundreds of those posts shows
that one of the most powerful weapons that Russian agents used to reshape American politics was the anger, passion and misinformation that real Americans were broadcasting across social media platforms.
Mr. Shah said when he noticed the ripped video, he wrote to the administrator of the
United Muslims account, asking them to add the link to his original YouTube video.
“What do you think — we’re saints?”
In early 2016, Being Patriotic copied and pasted a story from the conspiracy site InfoWars, saying
that federal employees had taken “land from private property owners at pennies on the dollar.” The Russian page added some original text: “The nation can’t trust the federal government anymore.
The Russian pages — with names like “Being Patriotic,” “Secured Borders”
and “Blacktivist” — cribbed complaints about federal agents from one conservative website, and a gauzy article about a veteran who became an entrepreneur from People magazine.
A New York Times examination of hundreds of those posts shows
that one of the most powerful weapons that Russian agents used to reshape American politics was the anger, passion and misinformation that real Americans were broadcasting across social media platforms.
Mr. Shah said when he noticed the ripped video, he wrote to the administrator of the
United Muslims account, asking them to add the link to his original YouTube video.
“What do you think — we’re saints?”
In early 2016, Being Patriotic copied and pasted a story from the conspiracy site InfoWars, saying
that federal employees had taken “land from private property owners at pennies on the dollar.” The Russian page added some original text: “The nation can’t trust the federal government anymore.