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Reddit (this is repetitive and has happened before with LiveJournal) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does anyone remember the livejournal? How it was sold to the SUP and the arrests and harassment of participants for free speech began in Russia?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Oh yeah.

I'm pretty convinced that Livejournal was Russia's test bed for weaponizing social media. I think they used it against their own citizens first, and data-mined the English-speaking side to understand how it worked, and took what they learned to perfect the shit-storm of lies on modern social media (on Tumblr/Twitter/Reddit/everywhere.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

can you think of any other countries, that might be weaponizing the internet? or is russia the only one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whatabout Whatabout

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Asking for additional examples is not whattaboutism.

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