It’s far from being a CIA company. It wouldn’t surprise me if three letters orgs have used it for psyops though. Russia has launched campaigns on social media platforms in attempt to cause chaos for many countries. The most notable of which is happening in Africa now.
Russia does use social media for misinformation, and lots of it. I have personally researched how the Russian government does this and it’s a nasty sight.
Shortly after RT America was shuttered, reporters who were associated with it went full-bore into spreading misinformation. They would launch anti-Hunter Biden campaigns on Gab, publish many fake reports from “the war zone” in Ukraine and just cause general chaos.
There was one “reporter” who finally blocked me after she published a report from “the front lines” after I geolocated the film to an area inside of Russia.
It doesn’t take much to uncover their bullshit as it’s done in a very typical, lazy Russian fashion. Russian propaganda is only skin deep and propagandists don’t even bother to cover their tracks back to the Kremlin.
Stories about Ukraine are the worst. They get recycled dozens of times while the details hardly change. Because of that, it’s easy to search the history of the “news” back to its original source.
You even spread propaganda that is generated by the Kremlin. You love to bark about how the west is evil and Ukrainians are all Nazis. Your history is just a compilation of tired Kremlin talking points and whataboutisms. Russia is just a paper tiger after all.
I hope you enjoy having your VPN access cut next year, if you are a Russian like I think you are. Enjoy the xenophobia, brohan!