Do you think you've ever been taken in by a false Russian narrative?

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32. Yes, and I assume so.

If there is a lesson there it's not to hold onto any idea too strongly. I know I cut Assange too much slack when he broke from the original wikileaks group. I had known of the early founders' work and should have trusted them when they claimed he was a danger and was hijacking the program.

Even just yesterday I was looking up some 2015 events in Moldova, tracking the Russian angle, and found a somewhat obscure American academic parroting the putin line, point by point. More recently he's written for some of putin's worst outlets and is a trumpist. Checked DU for any use of that source here, and sure enough found one, cited in a Forbes article and posted by a respected DUer who almost certainly had no idea. But that's history now.

We have to grow past the idea that russian trolls can't spell and are off on their grammar. The better ones will concede ideas that don't matter, then slip in the poison with ideas that taste great. Before you know it, you've taken home a red ballcap and don't feel very good.