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.

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    5 months ago

    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!?