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Since 1945 the US has invested heavily in national security.

We are seeing 8 decades of nationally security investment being destroyed by Trump in 62 days.

The alliances, the intelligence sharing, the information operations, the the military plans, the CIA operations, the fight against Russia and China — everything is being compromised in this fatal attack from within.

@randahl That's why it's not such a big, crazy conspiracy to think Trump is a Russian asset.

@randahl

hundreds of bots localized to Russia’s Internet Research Agency influencing the Brexit

pleroma.microblog.se/objects/8

Which just reminded me of the famous case of 200 bots amplifying disinformation campaigns about the integrity of the American elections a few years ago:

"We found that this group of 200 accounts either generated or were mentioned in over 140 million tweets last year."

voterfraud.iwr.ai/voterfraud

I wonder if further investigation was done to check if the "voter fraud" disinformation campaign in the US had Russian hands.

And this case in the US happened when there was more moderation in the platform. Now there's an overt agenda of the far right, amplified by X and its owner.

pleroma.microblog.sejanhoglund (@jan@pleroma.microblog.se)Four hundred and nineteen Twitter accounts that posted on Brexit were localized to Russia’s Internet Research Agency… About a third of the discussion of Brexit on Twitter was generated by bots—and ...
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@randahl On my last point, we have two clear examples. In Brazil, when the Supreme Court asked for information about the crimes of the extreme right, it was denied, resulting in X being banned throughout the country for a few weeks

bbc.com/news/articles/crkmpe53

Now, in Turkey, X is following the requests of an authoritarian regime

politico.eu/article/musks-x-su

It seems to me that these are clearly orchestrated disinformation campaigns to undermine democracies. Those responsible for these campaigns are winning.

www.bbc.comBrazil X ban: Top court judges uphold block of Musk's platformA majority of justices has voted in favour of upholding the suspension which has seen X blocked in Brazil.