Reddit (this is repetitive and has happened before with LiveJournal) (lemmy.world)

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Does anyone remember the livejournal? How it was sold to the SUP and the arrests and harassment of participants for free speech began in Russia?

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[-] IonAddis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh yeah.

I'm pretty convinced that Livejournal was Russia's test bed for weaponizing social media. I think they used it against their own citizens first, and data-mined the English-speaking side to understand how it worked, and took what they learned to perfect the shit-storm of lies on modern social media (on Tumblr/Twitter/Reddit/everywhere.)

[-] SONOFNAT@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

can you think of any other countries, that might be weaponizing the internet? or is russia the only one

[-] automater@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Whatabout Whatabout

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Asking for additional examples is not whattaboutism.

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