Mark Kraft on Nostr: Increasingly, all it takes to get a prominent influencer to participate in a Russian ...
Increasingly, all it takes to get a prominent influencer to participate in a Russian disinformation op is to:
- put it in a format that is very professional / run-of-the-mill
- and that gives them a substantial amount of money
- for saying and doing things they would be inclined to support anyway
It's a marriage between marketing and social engineering, really. You request something innocuous, and reframe it in a context that serves the disinformation campaign.
- put it in a format that is very professional / run-of-the-mill
- and that gives them a substantial amount of money
- for saying and doing things they would be inclined to support anyway
It's a marriage between marketing and social engineering, really. You request something innocuous, and reframe it in a context that serves the disinformation campaign.