I totally agree Russia adds a lot of fuel to this fire, but it’s not like they started it or are the only one tending it. Far-right everywhere uses the narrative of ‘your country is changing and it’s all because of immigrants’, but don’t forget they are exploiting an underlying fear that was already there.
I know. They’d exist anyway, but the scale is because of the Russia. They firstly give a lot of funding, secondly they do a lot of work to shape the discussions in the Internet. They put some “opinion” into the wild, then let local people do the talking. They only need to bootstrap the discussion, after which it will continue on its own weight without much need for further influence by the troll factory.
I totally agree Russia adds a lot of fuel to this fire, but it’s not like they started it or are the only one tending it. Far-right everywhere uses the narrative of ‘your country is changing and it’s all because of immigrants’, but don’t forget they are exploiting an underlying fear that was already there.
I know. They’d exist anyway, but the scale is because of the Russia. They firstly give a lot of funding, secondly they do a lot of work to shape the discussions in the Internet. They put some “opinion” into the wild, then let local people do the talking. They only need to bootstrap the discussion, after which it will continue on its own weight without much need for further influence by the troll factory.