The Kremlin Crafted #TakeAKnee Memes for More Than a Year
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The Kremlin Crafted #TakeAKnee Memes for More Than a Year
Social media accounts controlled by a Kremlin-backed ‘troll farm’ have been urging Americans to #TakeAKnee since last summer.
BEN COLLINS
09.30.17 12:01 AM ET
Kremlin-controlled social media accounts posing as black activist groups shared memes supporting Colin Kaepernick and other athletes protesting police shootings of black Americans by kneeling during the national anthem as early as last summer.
CNN confirmed on Friday that the “Blacktivist” Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts were taken down by the social networks last month after they were proven to have originated from a Kremlin-backed “troll farm” in St. Petersburg.
The Daily Beast found dozens of the propaganda group’s pages remaining on cache and archive services throughout the internet.
“‘Blue’ lives do not exist. Black lives do. Being a police officer is an occupation, a choice. Blackness is non-negotiable. #BlackLivesMatter,” one of the memes, which appeared on the propaganda group’s Instagram page, reads.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-kremlin-crafted-takeaknee-memes-for-more-than-a-year
Images of the memes at link, above ^^^
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