E116: Jack Stubbs on Russian Outreach to the U.S. Right Wing
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Today's guest is Jack Stubbs, the European cybersecurity correspondent at the news agency Reuters and previously a correspondent in Russia and Ukraine. About a week ago, on October 1, 2020, Jack authored an exclusive story at Reuters, titled “Russian Operation Masqueraded as Right-Wing News Site to Target U.S. Voters,” about people connected to the infamous Internet Research Agency — that troll factory founded by Evgeny Prigozhin — running a fake news outlet designed to target right-wing voters with inflammatory political messaging ahead of this year’s U.S. presidential election. According to sources familiar with an FBI probe, this is the right-wing version of a nearly identical project that targeted American leftists called Peace Data.
Follow Jack Stubbs on Twitter here and read his work at Reuters here.
Music and audio for "The Russia Guy":
- Alexandr Kuzminyh, CC BY license, "TOP 12 CARTOONS ON THE GUITAR (SOVIET CARTOONS)"
- Олег Анофриев, Бременские музыканты, “Говорят, мы бяки-буки”
- Thinking Music by Kevin MacLeod / Link / License
- The Bandit by Kevin MacLeod / Link / License
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