Emptywheel: THE DOPPELGNGER DOSSIER

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Last edited Thu Sep 5, 2024, 12:45 PM - Edit history (1)

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/09/05/the-doppelganger-dossier/

Yesterday, one day short of 60 days before the November election, the US government did four things:

- Indicted two RT officials, Konstantin Kalashnikov and Elena Mikhaylovna Afanasyeva, and in the process exposed some right wing influencers to be useful idiots paid indirectly by RT.
- Unsealed the domain takedown affidavit for a bunch of sites used in a Russian fake news program, Doppelgänger.
- Imposed Treasury sanctions on RT and Doppelgänger, among other entities.
- Indicted Dmitri Simes’ spouse, Anastasia, on sanctions tied to Aleksander Udodov.

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Exhibit 10 Social Media influencers: This document proposes setting up a network of 200 fake Xitter accounts, four each in every state, to push Russian propaganda.

Exhibit 11 A Mexican pass to Trump: This document proposes creating artificial tension on the border by stoking (alleged) Mexican opposition to the US.

The [Trump] who was building a border wall; the [Trump] who talked about the problem of migrants coming from the South pretty much all the time throughout his presidency; and the [Trump], to whom the ball needs to be passed conveniently in order to switch the American political discussion — that [Trump] is so much in need of an exacerbated confrontation with Mexico.

Yet the document bemoans that the growth of the US economy is the biggest problem for Trump’s campaign.

Believable, but also so unbelievavble

Checkout some of the tweets from one of the Twitter accounts here:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/19/16504510/ten-gop-twitter-russia
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[gab13by13]

1. Why weren't the 2 founders

of Tenet Media indicted by Garland? They were not duped by Russians and they are here, living in the US.

The 2 people who Garland indicted are most likely in Russia.

[Coexist]

2. Dunno.. maybe forthcoming?