Researchers Find Massive Anti-Russian ‘Bot Army’

By on    Alternative media - peace journalism, Cold War - Old and New, COLD WAR 1 & 2, MEDIA, Media and conflict, Peace journalism, Peace research, Russia, Russia international relations, Ukraine, United States - Empire and domestic, US Empire decline, US EMPIRE/WEST DECLINE  

Researchers Find Massive Anti-Russian ‘Bot Army’

Peter Cronau – Declassified Australia January 11, 2023 An Australian university has unearthed millions of Tweets by fake accounts pushing disinformation on the Ukraine war, Peter Cronau reports. The sample size dwarfs other studies of covert propaganda about the war on social media.  Originally published at Consortium News on November 6, 2022 A team of researchers at the University of […]

Don’t get too excited about the protests in Iran

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Don’t get too excited about the protests in Iran

  By Stephen Kinzer • Whenever trouble breaks out in Iran, adrenaline rushes through Washington. Hearts pound excitedly at the Pentagon, the CIA, the White House, and Congress. In recent weeks, reports of street protests in several Iranian cities have triggered this Pavlovian response. Once again, however, Americans who have spent decades hoping for an […]