11/02/2024
Excerpts from my book: POWER Through FEAR and LIES
How Russian Propaganda began:
During the 2016 election America was bombarded with thousands of cyber attacks a day. There were over a million malwar attacks an hour and hundreds of thousands of Facebook accounts were compromised every day.
This disinformation began in 2014 with the Russian invasion of the Crimea. It was a test case for the 2016 election. In 2015 the state department found a great deal of propaganda being released from a building in St Petersburg, Russia. The company, IRA, Internal Research Agency. Each day a few hundred people enter and spend the day sending messages tweeting demeaning life in America, sending Facebook posts both propaganda and general information like how yo bake a cake or pie as fake individuals known as "sock puppets" that make friends with you. The IRA trains its members through a manual to create their own fake people, a "socket puppet". Have you unknowingly made friends with a "socket puppet" that has filled your mind with propaganda?