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by stinkbeetle 16 days ago
Are there any links to any of these Russian doppelganger propaganda sites? That seemed to just be a story about "influencers" and their AI slop.
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They were largely taken down after Biden-admin actions in 2024 -- a contemporaneous story about some:

https://dfrlab.org/2024/09/18/doppelganger-us-election/

With a few preserved/archived stories e.g. from FoxNews.top:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230922135430/https:/www.fox-ne...

It is the world wide web so yes there should be plenty of links to those, but I do not have them.
I did do some searching and any link I found was already dead (hence me asking here!), so it's not really helpful to say "there should be plenty of links".
They set up new ones, don't worry. And the propaganda is largely on brain rotting social media like tiktok and twitterx.
Disinformation moved from page rank to the "feed" in 2018 when Douyin bought (read: acquired copyright they originally stole) Musically and rebranded to TikTok. Why does no one remember any of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news_websites_in_the_Unit...