Right-wing influencers were duped to work for covert Russian influence operation, US says

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Right-wing influencers were duped to work for covert Russian operation, US says
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Duped? How? By getting paid?

Oopsie I was just so confused by this giant bag of cash!

Whenn your livelihood depends on not noticing something, you'd be amazed how oblivious some people can be.

I'm sure at least some of them truly believed they were worth more than shit

God i hate popular media - always trying to change the narrative with these misleading headlines.

Being a paid russian asset isn’t being duped. I hope those things rot in prison.

The idea that doing something with someone who turns out to be a foreign asset makes you a conspirator is a bit ridiculous. I don't see anyone in this community accusing Kathy Hochul of being a Chinese asset since she's a Democrat, but accusing her of that would be ridiculous too. She probably didn't know that her aide was a Chinese agent.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6281zgjjneo

They knew the people paying them worked from a Russian timezone, they actually put it in an email.

Is Russia the only country in a Russian timezone?

The law only cares if they were lobbying for a foreign country. If it was China, India or Australia paying the bill, they would still be breaking the law.

i'm always getting duped to say obvious pro russian talking points after taking a bunch of money and signing a contract to say obvious pro russian talking points. hate when it happens, honestly.

Is this some of the obvious pro-russia propaganda?

No, that's just low-effort deflection on your part.

Deflection of what? I'm only invested in giving you guys shit. An anti-trump russian shill is funny as fuck and runs counter to the narrative.

At least someone responded, despite essentially no content. Maybe a bit of projection.

Deflection of what? I'm only invested in giving you guys shit.

Nobody wants you here.

Yeah, no response. Kinda figured.

At least criticize her because her views are worse than trump instead of making shit up. But no, fuck reality. We're all going to suffer until the left sorts out how to be effective and useful. Society needs you but you're going to take yourself out of the fight with delusions.

Nobody wants you here.

That's your struggle, not mine.

Lol if you think that's how things work then you are going to a very lonely person for the rest of your life.

I legitimately don't expect vicious people from blahaj. Maybe try hexbear?

I can't speak for anyone else here, but I do not abide fascists or fascism apologists.

Is having a problem with outright lies fascist? We can't completely divorce ourselves from reality and be effective.

I don't expect most people here (lemmy in general) to engage in argument with conservatives, but it's nice when you don't make it harder for me to.

Total media blitz today on this . Every outlet pushing the same shite.