r/worldnews • u/UNITED24Media United24 Media • 11h ago

Russia/Ukraine CIA Chief Told Moscow Russia Is Getting Weaker—Putin Reportedly Canceled Their Meeting

https://united24media.com/world/cia-chief-told-moscow-russia-is-getting-weaker-putin-reportedly-canceled-their-meeting-22121
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u/paulywauly99 10h ago

We just need our hackers to hack their hackers and out hack them I guess?

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u/genital_lesions 10h ago

It's not even traditional cyber hacking so much as it is just Russia's ability to influence Western public opinion with disinformation and misinformation.

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u/Printer-Pam 9h ago

it's just that narcissists, sociopaths and so on admire other narcissists, sociopaths and so on, so the far right from the West admire Russia

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u/makingnoise 9h ago

If you think Russian propaganda is only targeted at narcissists and sociopaths, instead of literally the entire US political spectrum, you might be interested in buying a bridge I own in Brooklyn.

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u/fake_user_34 9h ago

Mate, it's the children they are targeting and it works. majority of Gen Z men voted for Trump.

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u/jackyomum 8h ago

You are missing the point. They are fanning the flames on both sides trying to get them to hate each other. It is not just propaganda to make people right wing.

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u/broguequery 8h ago

No it's notjust right wing propaganda... But the right propaganda is outrageously effective.

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u/fake_user_34 6h ago

The issue with this though is that majority of the time, it really is just alt right messages that they spread and it is the american youth that combat more left wing people, which leads to the online discourse.

There are hardly any truly left wing conspiracy shit that they peddle.

So really, they aren't fanning the flames on both sides. They are fanning the flames on one side and that one side attacks the other for just living.

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u/jackyomum 5h ago

They certainly target left wing people as well:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/01/facebook-russia-internet-research-agency-fake-news

specifically, trying to get left-wing people to sour on Biden so they wouldn't vote for him. Your overarching premise of Russia wanting Trump to win is true (bomb threats on left-leaning area election offices etc), but my main point is that we are all susceptible to propaganda and they want us divided.

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u/NancyDiver 7h ago

a country divided is a country not united.

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u/MalleDigga 9h ago

the never ending circle.. gott ich bin müde chef

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u/FaveStore_Citadel 5h ago

I can only hope that one day after Putin, before Russians decide which psychopath to rally around, the west repays this favor and tears their whole country apart with propaganda.

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u/asspounder-4000 10h ago

Bring in hacker man, won't even need to hack time, all he needs is a floppy disk, a zip drive and a payphone. The kremlin will fall in a day

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u/FlukemanFrancis 10h ago

Impossible, Russians can’t be affected by disinformation for the same reason fish can’t drown

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u/jtr99 10h ago

Where is Johnny Lee Miller when we really need him?

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u/SlowlyDrown 5h ago

It doesn’t work on them because they don’t have real elections.

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u/thatspurdyneat 8h ago

It's not even hacking, it's control of the narrative.
The fact that the social media giants are on their side is what makes it all possible. They want their users to see the Russian propaganda because it keeps the people who cut their taxes in charge, and the people in charge cut their taxes so they'll show more propaganda to users via their algorithm. It's a viscous cycle that's eventually going to cause the economy to collapse and they know it, that's why they all built bunkers in Hawaii and New Zealand.
They want to be what's left after the flames burn out to rebuild the world in their image, kind of like how in the movie 2012 they built "Arks" to save "everyone" but only ended up letting people on board that could pay $1 billion per ticket, that money would be useless afterwards but it wasn't about making money, it was about only saving the rich.