[ikalugin]

Originally Posted by vienna

Just as an aside, do you have any knowledge of the Russian cyber efforts to spread disinformation and confusion by having Russians post spurious and inaccurate information to social media sites and forums on behalf of the Kremlin? Seems to have been going on for some time; here's a couple of cites:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/d...wZl#.tfElVK9Kv

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...an-troll-house

(cut the smiles from the quote)

It has been a part of western narrative for quite some time yes, but at the same time it is mostly projection - ie Western institutions attributing Western approaches and modes of operations to Russian actors. Sometimes it becomes rather amusing when:
- a Western source.
-- uses Russian material regarding.
--- perceived (by the Russian authors) Western operations.
-- as evidence regarding Russian operations.
- in order to promote simmilar operations (against Russian and other actors) in Western institutions.