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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo Team Deza! Don't get Distracted! Focus! It's *RUSSIA* and the election theft
Don't let these motherfuckers distract you.
Not with email
Not with abortion
Not with complaints about how to fight
Not with firing...
RUSSIA engaged in cyber WARFARE.
We are at war whether 45 knows it or not.
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No Team Deza! Don't get Distracted! Focus! It's *RUSSIA* and the election theft (Original Post)
LaydeeBug
May 2017
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samnsara
(17,572 posts)1. agreed! This firing was probably in the works for a long time but....
...trump needed to have a smokescreen and no one was falling for the Afghan story.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,160 posts)2. "Deza"? No one expects the Spanish Inquisition?
This Deza? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Deza
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)3. No..."deza" is shorthand for disinformation. nt
muriel_volestrangler
(101,160 posts)4. OK - learn something new every day
I can see a 'd' in it, but apart from that ...
Wounded Bear
(58,441 posts)6. It's from a Russian term...nt
mackdaddy
(1,520 posts)8. I had to look it up too. Must be a twitter thing.
Found an Atlantic article describing the Russian Disinfo geeks they hire for DEZA.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/the-kremlins-troll-army/375932/
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)9. I don't even have a twitter account, but that's where this is all happening
we have to play the hand we're dealt, not the one we want to have.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)5. kick. nt
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