#WhichHillary is trending
I’m so glad people are starting to see through her
I’m not for Hilary but people can grow and change their minds
didnt she support the TPP deal less than a year ago?
So like, with tumblr taking action on propaganda blogs, I think it’s pretty important to realize that these people looked like normal blogs THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE TIME. The goal was to cultivate followers who would agree with the propaganda blogs, then feed them highly politicized posts that were true, and a spattering of false (partially or wholly) information. The goal was to create disarray, and distrust that could be taken advantage of by Russian actors in the US. These accounts rarely lied, but often sowed narratives based in fact, but that either:
Sewed distrust for Clinton in progressive online spaces
Encouraged progressive people to treat imperfect progressives and liberals as enemies
Encouraged people to sew real-life protest and action (especially Muslims and POC because Republicans find them intimidating and their anger is highly useful to convince shitty white people to act against them)
Paint one sided issues as two sided to break up otherwise viable political blocs
Convince people that certain issues are either:
bigger than they really are
more widespread than they really are (ie The Knockout Game in Republican circles)
actually existent
Convince people that the desires of progressive people are fundamentally unreasonable
Remember all those troll blogs that claimed, for example, that air conditioning is sexist? While a handful of people might have been convinced, idea like those were invaluable tools for convincing the Fox News crowd that Progressives are something that we aren’t.
So, as people are starting to look at Russian propaganda blogs and saying “Hey this blog is pretty normal and okay” remember that THEY WOULDN’T BE EFFECTIVE TOOLS OF PROPAGANDA IF YOU KNEW THAT THEY’RE PROPAGANDA, THEY MUST CONVINCE PEOPLE TO FOLLOW THEM BEFORE THEY CAN SPREAD MISINFORMATION, AND THAT THEIR GOALS AREN’T TO CONVINCE YOU TO SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP, BUT TO CONVINCE YOU NOT TO WORK TOGETHER AND PROVIDE AMMO FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY SUPPORT CONSERVATIVE CAUSES.
THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN TRYING TO SAY


















