Comment by lynx97
15 hours ago
> ... and organizations willing to pay a lot of money to do political manipulation / influencing.
Like what, parties campaigning?
15 hours ago
> ... and organizations willing to pay a lot of money to do political manipulation / influencing.
Like what, parties campaigning?
Pushing certain talking points, managing discourse, amplifying certain people/events/whatever. Not all of it is nation-state stuff, some things are just lobbying and influence-building and market manipulation. Spreading rumors for shady purposes is a very old scam.
more like it would be from the nation state level. for example, RU pushing these lil psyop bots to get Trump elected and/or grow the divide in between Ds and Rs.
We're talking about foreign influence here. All recent US and German elections reeked of Russian dark money, then there was the entire Cambridge Analytica mess and before that it was Brexit.
Not every result you dislike is "Russian inference".
And Elon Musks dark money. Don't forget that. He gives his best to influence european politics.
Don't think he gives money, but yes, he definitely does everything he can to help out the far-right with his global audience.