Friday, September 20, 2024

Ex-Trump Advisers Help Pro-Russia Website Spreads Misinfo

Amid the recent crackdown on Russian influence in American media, a group of former Trump advisers and operatives have quietly helped build a pro-Russian website that frequently spreads debunked conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine, election fraud and vaccines.

Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 03:33 PM | 5 COMMENTS | permalink

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Working alongside contributors for Kremlin state media, the former Donald Trump policy aide George Papadopoulos, his wife, Simona Mangiante, and others have become editorial board members of the website Intelligencer, which is increasingly becoming a source of news for those in the rightwing ecosystem.

Intelligencer appears to be gaining in popularity. It recently had its best month for internet traffic, with an increase of nearly 300% during August, according to data from Similarweb, and its articles have been shared on social media by the conspiracist Alex Jones, former Trump White House staffer Garrett Ziegler and former Trump aide Roger Stone.


#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-09-19 10:32 PM

@#1 ... Working alongside contributors for Kremlin state media, the former Donald Trump policy aide George Papadopoulos, his wife, Simona Mangiante, and others have become editorial board members of the website Intelligencer, which is increasingly becoming a source of news for those in the rightwing ecosystem. ...

How obvious can they be in their apparent intent?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-19 11:12 PM

All MAGA dirt roads lead to Russia Russia Russia.

#3 | Posted by a_monson at 2024-09-20 08:04 AM

Once we have historical perspective on this era, it will be so clear that so much of the ignorance and division in america was part of a propaganda war waged by russia, who accepted that they couldn't beat us militarily or economically, so they would use our country's greatest weakness to destroy us - the GOP.

#4 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-20 05:49 PM

Of course they did, trump and his lakies work for putin

#5 | Posted by bat4255 at 2024-09-20 06:27 PM

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