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ARCHIVE: Disinformation, Russia and Syrian-Ukrainian Solidarity w/ Peter Pomerantsev

The Fire These Times

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Social Media

Social media is good for campaigning on social media. But, you know, i think it exasperates this, because it courages ar campaign managers to think in very tailored ways about small groups that they need to hit with the wright message. I've seen something very similar i merge in russia in the 19 nineties, when all the old social categories and all the old political metaphors died and ideologys died. And it ends up with this idea that is the main kind of political idea in russia, of the puten majority. Instead of a public full of different interests and ambitions and debate, you have an almost mystical majority that puton almost mystically represents. It's

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