DOJ: Russia Aimed Propaganda at Gamers, Minorities to Swing 2024 Election
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No shit.
If only the same gamers who went on a moral crusade about “ethics in games journalism” would get outraged about being manipulated by a foreign power.
But they won’t, because they don’t get to feel superior and bully women while they’re doing that. Instead, they’d have to self-reflect and maybe even apologize. To a woman. The horror.
I remember when gamergate first started. Gamers started a harassment campaign against zoey quinn because her ex said she cheated with a journalist and they all believed it with no proof.
I’m sure Russia pushed propaganda hard but gamers who fell for it were more than willing to
This is my surprised face. It’s nice to finally have proof tho.
Ughhh
This has probably been known for a bit just I dont look at news cause all it does is just make me feel like shit 🙁
Russians have been encouraging edgelordism, racism, misogyny, transphobia and homophobia amongst gaming/tech communities since the mid 2000’s! Russians encouraged the Gamergate types by saying things like “here, women know their place, we don’t put up with feminists, Get a Mail-order russian/hungarian/belarusian tradwife”
This shit makes my blood boil. Uhg!
as if gamer guys needed propaganda to be misogynist asshats 🙄
Democracies and open societies I would argue are the strongest in the long run. But maintaining them requires vigilance.
I have extreme confidence the USA and most Western countries will survive the challenges of the 21st century, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be in for a rough ride in the interim. Just look at Roe v Wade and systematically winnowing down abortion access all across the USA as an example. I think about my granddaughters and I feel very sad that I’ll probably pass away before restoring those privileges for their futures.
We also shouldn’t be too proud either, there’s plenty of interference to go around lol. But it’s quite vindicating to see this out in public now.
All nations do this to both their own people and those elsewhere.
The US literally uses Call of Duty to recruit people into their army and no other country has a more powerful propaganda machine than the US as it has Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Amazon/Twitter etc that are hard at work justifying the genocide in Palestine and of course the proxy war with Russia.
Most journalistic outlets in the world today are directly funded through Google ads and you post something critical that goes against the globalist agenda you will not get any ads served and your site will be on page 15 of the search results.
Fun fact the parent company of WIRED, Advance Publications Inc, also owns 30% of Reddit.
They targeted gamers. Gamers!
Sorry, I had to do it.
Happy Cake Day 🎂