Posted on 03/25/2019 6:26:22 PM PDT by fruser1
Nigel Farage claimed "Russian collusion" when it appeared that a number of signatories to a parliamentary petition calling for the government to stop Brexit came from outside the UK.
It is unclear whether the former UKIP leader genuinely believes this or was simply conveniently drawing on an issue - Kremlin interference in Western democracies - many observers suspect played a part in the Brexit referendum that he and fellow Brexiteers such as Arron Banks won.
Either way, Mr Farage's remark on his Twitter account is a reminder of the threat to democracy posed by hostile states that use websites and social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as a weapon, by exploiting existing divisions in democratic societies.
But there is evidence to suggest that Moscow at the very least deliberately meddled in the public debate leading up to the vote, helping to promote the arguments for Brexit over social media as well as via pro-Kremlin media outlets such as RT and Sputnik.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Isn’t this bizarre: the left is now blaming Russia for every effort the people make to throw off the shackles of socialism. In other words, if people want more freedom, it’s the doing of Russia.
This is totally backwards. The USSR-inspired left would never get away with this if kids were taught proper history of the Cold War in school.
The Russians have GOT to be laughing their heads off over all of this. They spent who knows how many trillions of dollars on the military over the last 70 years, but now they can get the West to tie itself up for years with just some words and stock photos that have existed mostly as bit patterns and were never even printed. With Western owned technology and Western owned equipment, yet. ingenious.
The money they spent on social media was by far the best return on investment that they have ever pulled off in propaganda since Lenin’s time.
same xhit< second verse...
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