Wednesday, July 10, 2024

The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming

 IYKYK*.......

Here's pars secundum:

... the Wall Street Journal reports that the Russian government has launched a 'whole-of-government" effort to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump...

 ...Citing unnamed 'senior US intelligence officials,' the Journal writes:

    The officials didn’t mention Trump by name, but said that Russia’s current activity—described as covert social-media use and other online propaganda efforts—mirrored the 2020 and 2016 election cycles, when Moscow also favored Trump and sought to undermine Democratic candidates, according to U.S. intelligence agencies.

Of course, Russia's 2016 'influence campaign' amounted to roughly $100,000 in Facebook ads, which "didn’t reference any specific presidential candidate, or even the election itself," largely targeting BLM members and 'Pokemon Go' aficionados
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Usually, the WSJ's "un-named sources" are from the State Department or the FBI

Surprised?

* IMDB has the goods.

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