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by DiogenesKynikos
2183 days ago
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Adrian Chen actually complained about how people were exaggerating and misusing his reporting on the Internet Research Agency.[1] > The thing is, I don't really want to be an expert on the Internet Research Agency and Russian online propaganda. I agree with my colleague Masha Gessen that the whole issue has been blown out of proportion. In the Times Magazine article that supposedly made me an authority, I detailed some of the Agency's disturbing activities, including its attempts to spread false reports of a terrorist attack in Louisiana and to smear me as a neo-Nazi sympathizer. But, if I could do it all over again, I would have highlighted just how inept and haphazard those attempts were. Adrian Chen also gave an interview with Chris Hayes on the Internet Research Agency, in which he made the point that it was an unsophisticated marketing campaign, staffed by around 90 people with a poor grasp of the English language, American politics and culture.[2] 1. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/a-so-cal... 2. https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/inside-the-russian-troll-... |
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