Very brief review:

1. Planned late 2012: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/24/a-trumprussia-confession-in-plain-sight/

2. Meetings in Moscow in November 2013: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013

3. Announced by Putin / Kremlin / Russia in December 2013: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/

4. Ukraine takeover started in February 2014.

5. George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University validated Twitter content going back to year 2014: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45294192

Extras / more:

1. “Putin Media Invasion” not covered in Western Press until June 2, 2014: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america

2. Only 1% of the Putin Media Invasion content has been detected and removed as of April 16, 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/16/russia-disinformation-discord-leaked-documents/

3. Ongoing… October 2024: https://apnews.com/article/russia-hurricane-disinformation-fema-9e37c73ab8ffa2a2d338797a1a827e57

4. Russia openly gloats that they own the Hearts and Minds of Americans in February 2019 (before the pandemic): https://www.newsweek.com/russia-president-vladimir-putin-election-americans-1327793

5. Just a couple months after Surkov gloated how Russia was winning, a April 2019 report of more evidence of Putin Media Invasion: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/09/in-the-united-states-russian-trolls-are-peddling-measles-disinformation-on-twitter/

6. May 2019 - Americans still oblivious to Putin Media Invasion ongoing, Stephen Colbert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju7Yt0LMiVk

7. September 3, 2024 Russian Disinformation Campaign “DoppelGänger” Unmasked: A Web of Deception via European Union’s Disinformation Lab (EU DisinfoLab) https://www.cybercom.mil/Media/News/Article/3895345/russian-disinformation-campaign-doppelgnger-unmasked-a-web-of-deception/

8. April 11, 2020 … Ghana and Nigeria too… “near the Ghanaian capital, Accra. It had been rented by a small nonprofit group that called itself Eliminating Barriers for the Liberation of Africa (EBLA)”

Russia is trolling the entire world via media systems. The largest organized trolling project in modern times, “Operation Matthew 4:19”. Moscow is financing legions of pro-Russia Internet commenters. Daisy Sindelar, 2014

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“media doesn’t want to cover things that attract controversy for them. They’re fine creating controversy for other things but not for them. And then the other thing is media creates enemies. It has to tell a story. And one of the things that is very common in storytelling is who do we all not like collectively? And so in the age of mass media, when Chomsky is writing about this, he’s describing a media that is attempting to reach a mass audience. And I think that this is one of the really big shifts that I try to get at, which is the incentive structure is incentives to create sort of a hegemonic identity is what he calls it, a national identity and national audience. The sort of small voices are left out”