Russian bots with a Kremlin disinformation network published 120,000 fake anti-Ukraine quotes falsely attributed to celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston and Scarlett Johansson, in one day, the independent Russian media outlet Agentsvo reported June 15.
Quotes appeared over celebrity photos, displaying messages calling to end aid to Ukraine and describing European collapse.
The images were published between June 14-15 by the Kremlin disinformation network Dvoynyk, a representative of the Bot Blocker project told Agentsvo. The fake quotes have since garnered over 500,000 views.
I dislike Ukrainians. -real Tom Cruise
I don’t understand the concept of a “real” Tom Cruise.
Is this like a “real” Bugs Bunny?
To be fair, it’s never been proven that the real Tom Cruise isn’t just a russian internet bot.
I thought he was a bot for Scientology? Is there a connection to Scientology and Moscow?
You know, you have a point
CIA: we have overthrown well over two dozen governments sometimes for reasons we aren’t even clear about. A noticeable fraction of the human race lives under the regimes we have installed.
NSA: we proved your conspiracy theorist uncle right and can read the emails and text messages of over a billion people.
And neither one can stop a government agency of under 100 people, who live in a country that can’t make a CPU over 8 bits, from shit posting on the internet? Not fucking possible.
Check this out: the guy who runs the largest pro-kremlin misinformation website in the world lives in NJ
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ivandjiiski
And yet all these powerful three letter agencies can do nothing?
We know Russia has been funding the NRA and members of the GOP. We know they have blackmailed them. We know they ran stuff through Epstein and have videos of them rapping kids. And yet despite all this, despite the power of tens of billions of dollars a year, despite being only answerable to literal god not a single act can be done to stop trolling? They can overthrow Pakistan but not block an IP!?
Spooks work in mysterious ways, dear. And we pay for it :)
Watch as they desperately grasp for straws.
They know they’re teetering so hard
Do… Do people care what the REAL scarlet Johansson, Jennifer Aniston or Elton John have to say about Ukraine defending itself and it’s people against a fascist invasion?
I mean, I find their stuff entertaining, sure, but like… Why would I listen to their tactical analysis in the first place?
Yes they do. A few weeks ago everyone on here cared what George clooneys wife was saying about Israel.
Yes!
As stupid as it sounds people trust them more than the experts. We live in the post truth times anyway.
Of course people are swayed by celebrities. I’m surprised you even have to ask that. Celebrity worship is huge in Western culture. Taylor Swift told her fans to register to vote and thousands did just because she said so.
“This is terrible, can someone please find Ja Rule ?”
I mean, Jennifer Anniston and Taylor Swift DID lead the armies in the congo jungles against the contra groups of the 1980s…They have military experience!!!
Lemmy.ml moment.
Any hope of civility and partisanship ended when social media received widespread appeal.
No, it ended when attention optimization and monetization became the objective.
If social media was all “dumb” it would be totally different, though I suppose keeping third party monetization out is always difficult.
