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Russia Using AI to Sow Discord and Support Trump
Oh, how Trumpists make it so easy for Russian programmers to lead them astray
In so many ways, Republican voters and Russians are alike. Both have had their understanding of reality vastly skewed thanks to the non-stop lies and propaganda fed to them for decades. Russia gave up most pretenses of independent media around 2004. The seeds to poison the vine of independent media for Republicans were planted in late 1996 — when Fox News was launched.
The spoiling of the Russian mind was a much easier task for the wizard of the Kremlin because Russians had been subjected to the alternate reality of communism. Republicans didn’t have such a tool, so despite the best efforts of Bob Grant and Rush Limbaugh prior to the birth of Fox, “stupid” would not begin to ferment until after Roger Ailes and his Fox News sunk its filthy talons into the mushy brains of the religion-addicted, superstitious white folks of the “heartland” of America. It will soon be 30 years since Fox has had its way with America, and the side effects are Donald Trump and all of his fantastic lies.
Now, meet the smart-as-a-whip Russian programmer from Yaroslavl. Sitting in a city that, despite having a population of over a million, has nothing much to offer and is literally on the cusp of nowhere…
