• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Because there have been literal articles and reports by the FBI that Russian interference in social media has been a thing since the 2016 election cycle.

    That’s why it’s been attributed to the Russian government. Because the Russian government actually did a ton of stuff.

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      there have been literal articles and reports by the FBI that Russian interference

      There have been literal articles and reports by the FBI of domestic white nationalist organizing and domestic financing. Significantly more money and manpower is documented as entirely domestically organized, although a sizeable amount is moving between NATO and other Five Eyes states. We’re talking on the scale of tens of billions moving between domestic financiers - like the Mercers, Thiel, the Kochs, etc - and domestic fascist media/organizing. That dwarfs Russian state interventions. Its orders of magnitude different.

      That’s why it’s been attributed to the Russian government.

      Why do you search for the speck in your neighbor’s eye when you have a plank within your own?