Not sure why this article in the NY times would be news, except as a funny example of Russia doing this badly.
As others have commented everyone is in the game, and western powers more so than anyone else.
This reminds me the NY times articles on Chinese spying and their special "internet spy army brigades", while America pressed the Chinese diplomatically on "their" spying problem. That all fizzled out and disappeared with the Snowden revelations.
I cant help see this article as another stone in the western propaganda campaign against Putin the last few months, and not really about social media propaganda.
People in glass houses...
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As others have commented everyone is in the game, and western powers more so than anyone else.
This reminds me the NY times articles on Chinese spying and their special "internet spy army brigades", while America pressed the Chinese diplomatically on "their" spying problem. That all fizzled out and disappeared with the Snowden revelations.
I cant help see this article as another stone in the western propaganda campaign against Putin the last few months, and not really about social media propaganda.
People in glass houses...
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