18/31 They worked with influencers to spread these messages. Both paid podcast bros like Tim Pool, who you'll remember from another investigation, but also simply by finding activists on issues and pushing targeted propaganda at them to spread unknowingly.
19/31 They wanted every American to believe "we've done too much for Ukraine" and that "the war must end as much as possible" And identified that right wing online cohorts, especially young men, were ripe for this manipulation.
Thank you for this detailed thread! I recognize a lot of those troll comments and wish this had been unsealed years ago! They were causing cynicism & depression among important 🇺🇦 defenders. Can’t believe Trump had access to these findings and knowingly bolstered the Kremlin‘s information warfare.
20/31 They wanted you distracted by job risk, DEI, worried about illegal immigrants or that "Biden was risking dragging us into WWIII" They didn't need you to believe this because Russia was winning the war. They need you to believe it because Russia is losing.
... Trump parrots this all the time ...
The world is entering a downswing of history. I'm not ashamed to shill my dad's book that covers electricity, ammo, water, food, health, and sustainability. These topics are covered in ways that other books do not. Especially making, storing and using electricity. www.amazon.com/s?k=teotwawk...
21/31 It's the same rhetoric you hear every day now: -"Why should we care" -"It's costing too much" -"WWIII" -"It's an unwinnable war" Much of it bots, but much of it the direct result of a systematic foreign influence campaign.
The world is entering a downswing of history. I'm not ashamed to shill my dad's book that covers electricity, ammo, water, food, health, and sustainability. These topics are covered in ways that other books do not. Especially making, storing and using electricity. www.amazon.com/s?k=teotwawk...
22/31 The President's actions do not benefit America. They are not benefiting our allies, nor our security. The fact that Russia went to this length, and spend this effort and money, shows how desperate they are.
23/31 This very campaign shows, the erosion of Ukrainian support is a Putin agenda. It shows Russia fears a united NATO defense, and knows it cannot escalate this war.
24/31 It also shows that the seemingly endless support of "random small town American's for Russia" likely isn't there, and is instead a sea of online bots. But most importantly, it shows, whether knowingly or not, the President has been compromised by a foreign agenda.
... I literally had a "small town guy" a guy that was cleaning my roof, parrot a lot of these talking points to me ... It is believed...
25/31 There can be no mistake. The intelligence community has had these documents for months. And yet, the President continues to take actions that only serve this *EXACT* Russian playbook.
The traitors in the White House are selling USA and Ucraina to Russia.
26/31 We must stand with Ukraine. We must be unwavering in that commitment. And Ukraine is winning this war - so long as we stand beside them.
27/31 The comments who ask you to go to the front lines, scream of nuclear war, tell you this is cope, blame NATO, complain about non-existent costs, or tell you that you only want more bloodshed, those are not real sentiments.
Adam, i think you have identified a very important fact- it seems to me that ai is very food at mimicking empathy and it points to our vacuity, how do we reclaim our authenticity?
28/31 Those are frontline troops of another battle, a war of disinformation and sentiment. And while they'll try and belittle you as a "keyboard warrior" the best thing you can do is be informed, and call it out.