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Originally Posted by photon
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what is interesting is i recall a few years ago they showed the Russian influence on a lot of popular alt-right news sources. Some is overt direct ownership by Russians, others had significant funding from Russian sources, and others were listed by intelligence sources as known disinformation vehicles for the Russian state.
My question has always been whether the US political figures that parrot these talking points are just useful idiots who decided that Russian propaganda websites will be their trusted sources for information, or are they more integrated in the disinformation campaign - potentially being funded themselves.
These US alt-right talking heads seem really, really, really stupid. As in too stupid that anyone intelligent would want to have a formal working relationship with them and a paper trail. So I assume they are all some form of useful idiot. But they're getting money from somewhere, and that then leads me to believe there is more to it...