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[aoypodcast]

AoY Podcast #165 - Between a (Chris) Rock and a Batplace: ANOTHER TANKOBON SPECIAL! (Cowboy Bebop, The Batman, Closing Remarks)

AoY Podcast #165 – Between a (Chris) Rock and a Batplace: ANOTHER TANKOBON SPECIAL! (Cowboy Bebop, The Batman, Closing Remarks)

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[mariacallous]

As former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social social media platform teeters on the brink of financial collapse, a group of shitposting cartoon dogs known for mocking Russia’s war efforts in Ukraine has infiltrated the platform. They’re trying to bring it down from the inside before the 2024 US election.

The North Atlantic Fella Organization (NAFO) is an online activist group founded last year to combat pro-Russia propaganda related to the invasion of Ukraine. Last month, the group turned its attention to Trump’s social network and launched a campaign to take over the trending topics section on the website. The group says that the operation, which included 50 “NAFO commandos,” as members targeting Truth Social call themselves, was so successful that those running the campaign now have a long-term goal: Take down Truth Social completely.

“The goal we have in mind, which is lofty, is to help bring the platform down ahead of the 2024 election,” Rock Kenwell, the pseudonymous leader of the NAFO commandos, tells WIRED. “We know it's going to be an aggregator for extremism and probably violence the way things are looking at this point.”

Describing the Truth Social platform’s current environment, Kenwell compared the challenge of combating the spread of pro-Trump messaging on the platform with “dealing with your racist uncle that nobody wants at the Thanksgiving dinner table because he’s just obnoxious and looking to fight with everybody.”

Truth Social was launched in early 2022 by Trump, who had been kicked off of mainstream platforms for inciting violence. Trump claimed that the network would challenge “Big Tech platforms” like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as a free speech platform open to everyone, but in the 18 months since it started, the site has failed to attract anyone outside of Trump sycophants and QAnon conspiracy groups, and has instead become the butt of late night comedy. Last week, a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) showed that the platform had lost $31 million since it launched.

“It's a very easy platform to manipulate. It's a very primitive, social media environment,” adds Kenwell.

Kenwell, along with other members of NAFO, posts anonymously to avoid blowback from the individuals and groups they are targeting. They also represent themselves online by using various cartoons of the Shiba Inu, a Japanese breed of dog that became a popular internet meme in 2013.

While most of NAFO’s activity takes place on X, the website formerly as Twitter, Kenwell had considered targeting Truth Social after he was inspired in part by a campaign earlier this year run by three friends—including the founder of the Birds Aren’t Real satirical conspiracy movement—who managed to get the #DeSantis2024 hashtag trending on Truth Social before it suddenly shut down.

But Kenwell was finally convinced to take action when he saw the Biden campaign join Truth Social. Biden’s campaign team joined Truth Social in October and briefly surged past the Trump campaign account in terms of followers, though the Trump account, with almost 65,000 followers, has since surpassed the Biden account, which currently has almost 56,000 followers.

On October 31, Kenwell launched his campaign to try and take over the trending topics section on Truth Social by using anti-MAGA hashtags. Just 50 members were involved in the initial wave, but they successfully got hashtags that could be misinterpreted as pro-MAGA onto the trending list, including misspelt phrases like #StollenElection or #ErectionFraud. This goal was achieved in a matter of hours, according to screenshots shared with WIRED of the platform’s trending topics.

In the space of 10 days, the Commandos posted over 8,200 “Truths” containing their anti-Trump hashtags. “These guys are way easier to trigger than the Russian spambots over on Twitter,” wrote NAFO member Pinkeye McGrew in a private Truth Social group hours after the operation began.

The campaign was orchestrated in this private group, and everyone in the group shared (or “reTruthed”) each other’s posts to make it look like there were a lot more people involved.

The hashtags were eventually removed from the trending list, but Kenwell claims the campaign had an even greater impact on the platform: “We actually made Truth Social take down new app downloads from the app store,” Kenwell says. “We made them shut off new account registration just after our campaign began.”

Truth Social was in fact unavailable to download from the app store, and new registrations were closed around the time the campaign took place. However, this has periodically happened at other times on Truth Social and WIRED could not independently verify that the NAFO campaign was responsible for closing new registrations.

Truth Social did not respond to WIRED’s requests for comment about NAFO’s campaign to impact Truth Social’s trending list, why it closed registrations around this time, and whether the decision was linked to NAFO’s campaign.

The success of the campaign did, however, entice around 200 NAFO members to sign up for future anti-Truth Social campaigns, Kenwell tells WIRED.

NAFO is planning to spread pro-Ukraine content on the platform later this month. “The thing is to get the word out in that environment about the realities of what's happening in Ukraine because, it being a MAGA environment, they are pro-Russia, they're very anti-Ukraine,” Kenwell says.

Next, the group will take aim at the few advertisers who have decided to pay Trump to sell gold, alternative medicine, and Trump merchandise on his platform.

Kenwell says he has a database of around 50 Truth Social ads queued up and ready to be faked and deployed at once. “So, all of a sudden, it's just a glut of fake ads,” Kenwell says. “It's really easy to fake ads on Truth Social … If we can take any ad and get a couple of thousand false versions of that ad running, nobody can really identify what is the original ad anymore and what's fake.”

While the operation was being conducted by anonymous accounts, the campaign was far from top secret. On X, Kenwell detailed exactly what the group was doing and how new members could join in a thread he called the NAFO Commandos Quick Start Guide.

Though a few of the NAFO accounts have been taken down—including a spoof Russian Embassy account, which was taken down for pretending to be an official government agency—Kenwell says he’s not worried about being kicked off Truth Social.

"We don't care, because we'd just try again, we'd make new accounts and get back on there again,” Kenwell says. “Anyway, I don't believe that they have the capability or the personnel to deal with something like this on an ongoing basis.”

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

Going to Burning Man? Catch me on Tuesday at 2:40pm on the Center Camp Stage for a talk about enshittification and how to reverse it; on Wednesday at noon, I'm hosting Dr Patrick Ball at Liminal Labs (6:15/F) for a talk on using statistics to prove high-level culpability in the recruitment of child soldiers.

On September 6 at 7pm, I'll be hosting Naomi Klein at the LA Public Library for the launch of Doppelganger.

On September 12 at 7pm, I'll be at Toronto's Another Story Bookshop with my new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.

#20yrsago US goverment trying to sink WIPO open content talks https://archives.lessig.org/indexcd0e.html?p=2321

#20yrsago Gilberto Gil supports CD-burning automats https://web.archive.org/web/20031001111038/https://www.estadao.com.br/divirtase/noticias/2003/ago/19/30.htm

#15yrsago Printcrime in Portuguese https://cronicasredux.blogspot.com/2008/08/printcrime.html

#15yrsago Writer who photographed HP Lovecraft’s headstone ordered to delete her photo, heaped with abuse https://web.archive.org/web/20080831143307/http://greygirlbeast.livejournal.com/482449.html

#15yrsago Cartoon depicts what went on in the NSA’s wiretapping room at AT&T https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/08/secret-room-eff-designers-cartoon-illegal-spying

#5yrsago All versions of Openssh share a critical vulnerability, including embedded code that will never be updated https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vulnerability-affects-all-openssh-versions-released-in-the-past-two-decades/

#5yrsago Vulnerabilities in smart electric plugs give attackers a staging point for scanning and attacking your whole network https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/21/mcafee_flaws_smartplugs/

#5yrsago Taiwan’s legal crowdsourcing tool is working surprisingly well to resolve thorny legislative problems https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/08/21/240284/the-simple-but-ingenious-system-taiwan-uses-to-crowdsource-its-laws/

#5yrsago The true story of Notpetya: a Russian cyberweapon that escaped and did $10B in worldwide damage https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-russia-code-crashed-the-world/

#5yrsago Federal officers establish unconstitutional checkpoints on road to Burning Man https://memex.craphound.com/2018/08/22/federal-officers-establish-unconstitutional-checkpoints-on-road-to-burning-man/

#5yrsago Facebook sends man animation featuring cartoon characters dancing on his mother’s grave https://memex.craphound.com/2018/08/22/facebook-sends-man-animation-featuring-cartoon-characters-dancing-on-his-mothers-grave/

#1yrago Google falsely told the police that a father was a molesting his son https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/22/allopathic-risk/#snitches-get-stitches

#pluralistic

[saouronstoenails]

I wish I was born in 1979, in either New York or Chicago where I would see the not see the begging of the 80’s with Star Wars but I would see the end of it with Jurassic park. I would see the video game crash of 83’ I would play the original Super Mario Bros on Christmas morning of 86’ where I would then eenie meeny miny moe between The Legend of Zelda and Metroid. I would see in the news the attempt of Regan getting shot, and more devastating news on the Cold War, I would see the Berlin Wall fall. I would get into the 90’s and see the rise of Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and be on the neutral end to watch the war of my little brother’s school playground. I would take a Gameboy to school and play Tetris, Mario land 2, Links’s awakening, Return of Samus, Kirby, Mario Tennis, with Pokémon Blue and Gold. And when I go the tree on Christmas morning I would see a Super Nintendo with Mario world, a Link to the Past, Super Metroid, Mega man X, Super StarWars, Spider-Man:Carnage, EarthBound, Mario RPG, Star fox, DK Country, Harvest Moon, and Super Street Fighter 2 turbo, and Harvest moon; Not all in one day but my collection over the course of the decade. I would see Russia fall, Princess Diane die, Toy Story, Pulp Fiction, The Matrix, and see Sega become Nintendo’s biggest rival (from most important to least). In 95’ I would get into and out of a shitty relationship. I would go into a record store to buy CDs and to see a friend and talk about who shot Mr.Berns, in 96’ I would go to a coffee shop to apply a job for there I see a cute girl I talk to her she works there, I get the job I get to know her more we become so close over the years we become a couple. In 98’ I get a couple of pay checks to get a PlayStation and get: FF7, Crash Warped, Spyro, Metal gear solid, Tomb raider,Street fighter alpha 3 and Tekken 2; In the same year I get a lot of money for Christmas where I buy an N64 with Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and Mischief Makers on Christmas Eve. I wonder how they allowed Courage the cowardly dog on tv for kids, watch the Power puff girls and Dexter’s lab, and see the premise on Nickelodeon for a show with a yellow sponge. In the 2000’s the girl and I realize we accidentally started dating. I buy a PlayStation 2 for my family as a dvd player and get a couple of games like Kingdom hearts, GTA San Andreas, Silent hill 2, Ico, and Devil may cry. My family and I watch the matrix on dvd on our ps2. I get a game cube from my dad and I would see Melee, wind waker, Prime, Sunshine, and mansion. I have so much more to say but I have no more coffee and this was a video game centric post but it’s 6 in the morning and I really like video games.

#1980s #1990s #2000s #movies #video games #life #me some how making a fucking rough description of some one’s dreams.

[buzzdixonwriter]

Michael Reaves R.I.P.

Of the many, many memorable moments I shared with Michael Reaves, few better sum up the man than participating with him as he battled Fred Silverman and Hideo Takayashiki for the integrity of The Mighty Orbots.

You could well cite this as a quixotic quest, attempting to bring as much skill and intelligence to a Japanese / U.S. co-production that never gained the traction it should, a one season wonder that faded from the memory of all except the most dedicated animation fans.

Michael would certainly have been forgiven for not fighting to the last bloody inch to make the show as good as he possibly could, especially in the face of a Japanese co-story editor who felt dishonored at having to share duties with an American and then having to face off against Silverman, a network executive best described as the Donald Trump of television.

Takayashiki could speak English and Michael knew this, but it was a point of honor to him not to communicate directly with any American writers.

We had a trio of female Japanese interpreters working for TMS at the time, and one of them drew the unpleasant short straw of having to translate the story sessions between Michael and Takayashiki.

The sessions, which took place in the TMS conference room with the Japanese and Americans sitting on opposite sides of a long executive table only slightly shorter than the flight deck of the IJN Hiryū, would typically start with Takayashiki wanting some change to bring the story being discussed more in line with Japanese sensibilities. 

The poor lady translator would relay this in a soft, conciliatory tone.

Michael, knowing the series’ success hinged on it being a hit in the U.S., would resist, testily citing why the suggested change didn’t fit with the way Americans liked their cartoons. 

The poor lady translator would relay his response in a soft, conciliatory tone, even though Takayashiki understood what Michael said.

Takayashiki would regretfully (or so the translator said) disagree with Michael.  Michael -- who like myself was a disciple of the Harlan Ellison school of fight long, fight loud, fight hard for your story – would respond somewhat…ah…forcefully.

The poor lady translator would relay this in a soft, conciliatory tone.

Takayashiki would reply in a tone somewhat akin to Toshiro Mifune wading into a yakuza gang.

…and the poor lady translator would relay this in a soft, conciliatory tone.

(Little wonder this translator quit mid-season to serve as a translator for an international commission attempting to hammer out a fishing treaty between the U.S., Russia, and Japan; that must have seemed awfully relaxing after dealing with Orbots story sessions!)

And if you thought that was fun, hoo-boy!  Stick around for the second part of our doubleheader, a story session with Fred Silverman.

Silverman was a bullshit artist who catered to the lowest common denominator but for the first part of his career possessed enough savvy to find talented creators and not interfere too much.

He frequently repeated his catchphrase to anyone within earshot:  “Sell the sizzle, not the steak.”

He didn’t like it when I pointed out that selling the sizzle was fine -- but you still needed to deliver a steak.

Silverman’s star was not merely setting at the time of The Mighty Orbots, it had collapsed into a black hole.  Despite being the only person to head all three networks, after his success at CBS and ABC, he made a gawdawful mess of NBC and left the peacock to “go into independent production.”*

None of Silverman’s indie-prods ever caught fire (though a few of them should and their cast and crews would have willing supplied the matches).  The Mighty Orbots was Silverman’s attempt to prove he was still the kid-vid genius who okayed Scooby-doo, Where Are You? and launched Joe Ruby and Ken Spears studio.

Perhaps it would have been better if we used translators in our Silverman meetings; speaking the same language certainly seemed futile.

The epitome of this was an epic battle Michael and I had with Silverman over how to get rid of a magnetic monster in one episode.

“I wanna throw it in a glacier,” Silverman said.

That wouldn’t work, Michael and I pointed out.  Intense cold strengthens a magnetic field, intense heat destroys it.  “Throw it in a volcano instead,” Michael said.

“No, I want to throw it in a glacier,” Silverman said.

Now some of you may wonder why fight over this minor point. 

I mean, it’s only a dumb children’s show, right?

Wrong.

There’s a saying in the music biz that if you don’t play every gig as if it were a sold out gig, you’ll never play a sold out gig.

Michael (and myself, and Steve Gerber, and Marty Pasko, and Flint Dille, and many of the other animation writers of our generation) would never short change our audience no matter how young they might be.

We fought long and hard to make our scripts as good as they could possibly be, pushing the format bit by bit, inch by inch, edit by edit a little further along the path.

We may have been the despair of the producers and studios who hired us, but with no false modesty our efforts paid off in shows that people remember fondly to this day, shows that made groundbreaking shows of the 1990s and 2000s easier to fight for.

Those screaming arguments Michael fought with Silverman and others to keep the integrity of his scripts paid off, if not for him then certainly for the shows he wrote for.

Case in point:  Dungeons & Dragons.

Michael wrote several of the best episodes of the show, which by Saturday morning standards of that era was a big hit, enjoying three seasons.

But when it was cancelled without wrapping up the main quest (i.e., the kid heroes finding their way back into the real world), Michael took it upon himself to write “Requiem”, a finale episode he made available to anyone who wanted to read it (eventually it was recorded by fans as an audio drama and that recording turned into a fan-imation by using scenes from other episodes).

Michael fought for writers’ rights and was instrumental in a couple of attempts to break animation writers away from the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists and into either the Writers’ Guild or, when that failed, to start an Animation Writers Guild.  He wrote / co-wrote / edited nearly 30 books, dozens of short stories, three feature films, plus more animation than IMDb gives him credit for.

I tried to recruit him for G.I. Joe but he refused, saying his action-adventure cred he couldn’t bring himself to write a show that glorified military force.

We respected him for that, and got him to write for Transformers, Jem, and My Little Pony.

He was a prickly sort, no denying that, but he was also the kind of guy you could trust to have your back in a story conference or a bar fight.  He was married for several years to Brynne Chandler, a talented writer and editor on her own, and for a while they were happy.  Among the children they had is Mallory Reaves, who continues the family tradition of writing and editing.

The end of their marriage and Michael’s subsequent diagnosis with Parkinson’s did a lot to simmer him down.

As Harlan himself demonstrated, you can’t roar through life full tilt 24 / 7 without burning out eventually.   Michael’s personal situation and health issues didn’t daunt his creative endeavors, but they sure took a lot of piss and vinegar out of him.

We stayed in touch as he went through a prolonged period of couch surfing.  He remained creative as long as he could operate a keyboard, but the Parkinson’s deprived him of speech.

The last time I saw him was at the Motion Picture home where a producer staged a table read for a new screenplay Michael had written.  He could barely raise his voice above a whisper at that point.

He remained online for a few years after that, but the last thing he wrote on Facebook was a brief mention of our mutual friend Marty Pasko’s death.  After that he put up a few links, but apparently even that become too much effort.

There are a few people in the industry that I’ve felt a special kinship with, and Michael was one of them.

It hurts to realize he’s gone.

  © Buzz Dixon

  *  If Daily Variety reports you’re going into independent production, it means you’re fired.  If they report you’re going to write a book, it means you’re really fired.

#Michael Reaves #The Mighty Orbots #animation #cartoons

[artaacari]

Betrayal or manipulation?

Hello, participants. After all, something unimaginable happened in the modern world. We cannot stand aside, no matter how much we are told that nothing can be changed.

Jeremy Zag, the producer of the cartoon series and the film "Ladybug" recorded an address to Russian fans on the occasion of the release of the same film in their cinemas.

At first I thought that the situation might repeat itself with Johnny Depp, who really recorded the appeal, but addressed to everyone who will watch the new film with his participation, it was simply skillfully used.

But no, Zag's speech contains a word that we all really dislike. Of course, current technology allows you to edit a lot, but the film is still released in Russia.

It is very painful for us to see this. While the children of Ukraine, who love Ladybug so much, are forced to hide from Russian missiles, suffer injuries and even die from them, the authors of this animated series calmly smile at the fans from the Russian Federation.

Do you really need money that much? Do they share the position that "not everything is so clear-cut"?...

Let's not be silent. Let the world know about our indignation, let even those who live in their miraculous bubble look out the window and see what is happening right next to them. Let everyone make a choice - whom to support.

If you are subscribed to Jeremy Zag's official pages on social networks, show him what's happening in our cities while he's cheering on Russian fans.

And it seems that now we will no longer want to watch that film, even if it is released in our country.

Be miraculous! Слава Україні!

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous the movie #miraculous ukraine

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A suspected Russian disinformation campaign is targeting far-right U.S. audiences to undermine support for Democratic candidates ahead of Tuesday's elections, researchers at social media analysis firm Graphika have found.

WHY IT MATTERS: The new campaign indicates strong foreign interest still exists in interfering in tight U.S. races in the days leading up to Election Day.

DETAILS: Graphika found Russia-linked actors are targeting the close Senate and gubernatorial races in Pennsylvania, Georgia, New York and Ohio by disseminating a series of racist and inflammatory political cartoons.

• The report, released Thursday, associates the ongoing campaign with the Newsroom for American and European Based Citizens, a fake right-wing news outlet that targeted the U.S. 2020 presidential elections and is believed to be tied to Russia's Internet Research Agency.

• Since Oct. 29, the group has published new political cartoons and fake articles undermining the Democratic Party on social media network Gab and far-right discussion forum patriots.win.

YES, BUT: Graphika said the most recent set of political cartoons has "received very low engagement and no organic spread to other platforms."

CATCH UP QUICK: The suspected Russia-linked disinformation campaign follows reports of increased pro-China disinformation targeting the U.S. elections as well.

• Last week, researchers at Google-owned Mandiant said they had uncovered a pro-China disinformation campaign targeting U.S. voters across social media to dissuade voters from casting their ballots.

#us politics #news #2022 midterms #2022 elections #2022 #axios #Republicans #conservatives #alt right #gab #patriots.win #misinformation #graphika #Mandiant #election interference #foreign interference #china #russia

[alexbkrieger13]

Alsu said "could" , not "husband". In general, the subtitles are correctly generated, except for some moments.

Questions that were and short answers, if you need

1. Who did I want to become as a child - a policeman

2. About the pet - there was a cat, but she died and the parents got a kitten

3. The most unusual gift is a cake in the form of a cat

4. Talent besides football - writes poetry

5. What I want to learn - I would go to design courses and learn to play the piano

6. The most useful superpower is never getting tired

7. What concert would I go to - Max Korzh and an unknown performer to me, I don't know his nickname

8. Life in social networks for showing - I was afraid of interviews before, later I created Instagram and telegram

9. Are they suitable to be photographed - in their hometown - yes, in London no

10. Who would I take a picture with - Ronaldo, Messi or someone who has achieved a lot

11. Favorite movies - motivational, documentary, loves the series about mansiti

12. In what role would I star in a movie - I just would like to star, but in decent scenes

13. Favorite cartoon - fox, mole, fox and horse

14. Favorite music - before the match, he listens to a positive one, in life it depends on different moments

15. Computer games - does not play

16. Board games - dominoes, checkers, said that in England they often play board games when they get together (we mostly talk and eat)

17. Dedication of newcomers - vsp newcomers sang a song in America. Alsou chose "Titanic"

18. Fights on the field - she broke it up once

19. What will anger and make you cry - will anger injustice, will upset something related to the family

20. Phobia - cockroaches

21. Favorite prank - often scares mom, scares brother in childhood

22. Which country would you like to visit - Dubai or another Muslim country

23. Favorite places are her native village in Russia, there are 3 places in London, she has them in insta

24. Favorite dish - mom's dishes, Japanese food

25. Unloved food is spicy

26. What can he cook - he cooks porridge deliciously

27. Extreme - does not like scary rides, would like to bungee jump in Sochi or go hiking

28. The trick in appearance is freckles

29. Who do I look like - actresses from "Hurry to love" or Alyonka on a chocolate bar

30. What would I not advertise - underwear

31. Ideal vacation - with family by the sea

32. How do I see myself in 15 years - wants a family, children, just wants to be happy

I'm sorry if something is written wrong or unclear, I'm bad at English and used a translator

omg fab!!! thanks for the translation

[tehozwar69]

I may not be from Russia, but I decided to draw fan art of 2x2 in honor of it turning 15 back in April.

For those who don't know, it's basically an animation TV network that airs [as] shows, Simpsons, South Park, and some kids cartoons like SpongeBob.

#2x2 #fanart

[theyoungturks]

After everything they've already gotten wrong, QAnon followers have now resorted to watching cartoons to depict the future of Trump's "inevitable" return to office. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkzx7/qanon-simpsons-episode "A conspiracy that “something big” is about to happen on Saturday, Sept. 24, has taken hold among QAnon supporters around the world, in part thanks to an episode of The Simpsons. The conspiracy first emerged in German QAnon channels on Telegram earlier this month, when followers began spreading a video that showed German lawmaker Friedrich Merz speaking to the Bundestag about the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February. In his speech, Merz misspeaks and says that everyone will remember where they were on September 24, rather than February 24, the day Russia invaded. Merz corrected himself in the official record of the Bundestag, but QAnon followers in Germany believed they’d spotted Merz revealing a detail of a secret plan." *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT's independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world. See Perks: ▶ https://www.youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/join SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks TWITTER: ☞ http://www.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM: ☞ http://www.instagram.com/TheYoungTurks TWITCH: ☞ http://www.twitch.com/tyt 👕 Merch: http://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Watchlist https://www.youtube.com/watchlisttyt Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey https://www.youtube.com/indisputabletyt Unbossed with Nina Turner https://www.youtube.com/unbossedtyt The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA #TYT #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews 220921__TB05 by The Young Turks

#IFTTT #YouTube

[mariacallous]

Russians have reacted ecstatically online to the two-hour interview between former Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson and Russian president Vladimir Putin, hailing it as a historic, internet-breaking moment that will change the world. Many are now even calling the former Fox News presenter a national hero: Some have called for February 9 to be renamed as “Tucker Carlson Day,” while others posted pictures of Carlson wearing a Russian ushanka hat and claimed Carlson wore a tie during the interview bearing colors that closely resemble the colors and pattern of Saint George’s ribbon, a Russian military symbol.

The much-hyped interview ran for more than two hours on Tucker Carlson’s new streaming platform and X, and saw Putin spending a huge amount of time laying out a revisionist history of Russia and the Ukraine in a bid to justify Russia’s invasion. Carlson spent most of the interview listening, and rarely interjected to question Putin’s narrative. He also failed to push the Russian leader on his country’s widely reported war crimes in Ukraine.

The interview marks Carlson’s further embrace of the far-right and conspiracy world since departing Fox News last year, and comes on the back of Russia ratcheting up its interference operations ahead of the 2024 elections. This week, WIRED reported on a coordinated Russian disinformation campaign where state media, influencers, bots, and others claimed the Texas border crisis was pushing the US toward civil war. By providing Putin with direct access to millions in the US and around the world, Carlson gave the Russian leader an unprecedented opportunity to spread propaganda virtually unchecked, marking a new, and possibly even more comprehensive, era of Russian disinformation.

In a bid to highlight how Putin dominated the conversation, some Kremlin-linked trolls have also been sharing a meme of the interview that replaces the former Fox News presenter with a Swedish cartoon character called Karlsson who is beloved in Russia and known as a mischievous, overconfident liar. The memes depict Karlsson sitting in Carlson’s chair during the interview and include comments in Russian such as, “Tucker Carlson, when he finally got the coveted interview with Putin, which could make him one of the top modern journalists.”

The memes have been shared by accounts on X which have been linked to Kremlin disinformation campaigns in the past, according to researchers at Antibot4Navalny, a Russian anti-disinformation research group that has been closely tracking a Russian disinformation network known as Doppelganger on X.

“The Karlsson character is in the top three themes among pictures posted by Kremlin trolls,” a researcher with the group who did not want to be identified due to security concerns tells WIRED. “Using a widely-popular animation character was the obvious choice to maximize nostalgia, as the character refers to the best years of the target audience, [and] to the USSR, which was comfortable and predictable when they were young.”

According to data shared exclusively with WIRED by the researchers, all of the content posted by the Kremlin troll accounts they are tracking was related to the Putin–Carlson interview as of Friday morning.

“Across social media, Kremlin sources have moved quickly to take advantage of Tucker Carlson's interview as an opportunity to amplify propaganda aimed at building support for Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine,” Ben Scott, director at Reset, a London-based nonprofit that tracks disinformation campaigns, tells WIRED.

This blanket coverage was repeated across Russia’s state-run media. Newsroom homepages are filled with multiple stories about the interview, and many of them highlight how successful Putin has been at getting his message to a Western audience.

In one of a dozen articles published by state-run news agency RIA Novosti, the author claimed the interview was “aimed at a Western audience that knows nothing about Russian history so that it realizes that Russians and Ukrainians are one people,” referencing Putin’s 30-minute introduction to Russian history that went back to 862.

Even before the interview was published, Russian state-run TV channels had been tracking Carlson’s every move while in Moscow, including his trip to the Bolshoi ballet and the fact that he was charging his phone and using Wi-Fi.

The interview was also broadly disseminated on Telegram, including on channels created or renamed especially for the occasion, according to research shared with WIRED by Reset. These channels quickly accumulated large followings: One newly-created Telegram channel called “Tucker Carlson in Russian” gained over 18,000 new subscribers interested in the interview. Another channel, renamed “Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Putin,” has over 200,000 subscribers. Some pro-Kremlin Telegram channels published dashboards alleging through-the-roof statistics about how the interview performed online, while others posted screenshots of charts claiming to show interest in the interview on Google over time.

On Russia Today’s official Telegram channel, the news station celebrated how Western media reacted, writing: “Mainstream media’s Putin–Carlson meltdown reveals the Western narrative’s weak hand.” Other Telegram channels also posted clips of Western media reactions to the interview.

“Much of the Russian audience believes [the interview] was conducted with the sole vision of educating the West,” Kyle Walter, director of research at Logically, a company that uses AI to track disinformation, tells WIRED. “Many channels are focusing on just how much attention the interview got, as well as the articulated lengthy history associated with Russia that ‘America does not have.’”

In the aftermath of the interview, Vladislav Davankov, the vice speaker of the State Duma and presidential candidate from the New People political party, suggested that the Russian telecommunications agency Roskomnadzor should unblock X because the platform hosting the Putin interview had shown “it is neutral in disseminating information” and had “deleted more than 90 percent of the content prohibited in Russia” since Musk took control.

Many Russian Telegram users also celebrated Elon Musk’s role in disseminating the interview: On his X profile, Musk pinned the interview and encouraged followers to watch.

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#5

Honestly the Twitter debacle just makes me glad Elon Musk isn’t eligible to be president, cause he’d do the same shit as Donald Trump, just faster and in a push-up bra.

11 notes - Posted November 23, 2022

#4

20 notes - Posted November 19, 2022

#3

Why are they even bothering with Eurovision this year? If there’s anything the televoters love more than good music it’s spiting jackasses. Ukraine’s gonna win to spite Putin.

94 notes - Posted May 13, 2022

#2

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145 notes - Posted June 12, 2022

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#still love regular show but cmon #do better #at least a bit of research before making such nonsensical propaganda

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