They ran a successful propaganda campaign targeting rightwing Americans online. The irony is this is largely the same crowd that fell for (and paradoxically continues to fall for) red scare anti russia/communism propaganda.
It starts on message boards, makes its way to websites like this/TD, ends up on the pundit of the week's Twitter, next stop is facebook, then fox news and finally back to the message boards, making it "real," to complete the circuit and hermetically seal the echo chamber.
It's always funny when 99% of the media parrots the same talking points, while criticism or mere disagreement are actively penalized... but when dissenting opinion does manage to reach the few outlets still even slightly open, that's "propaganda". When Facetwittubeddit stops banning accounts for their political views, then we can talk about echo chambers.
They ran a successful propaganda campaign targeting rightwing Americans online. The irony is this is largely the same crowd that fell for (and paradoxically continues to fall for) red scare anti russia/communism propaganda.
It starts on message boards, makes its way to websites like this/TD, ends up on the pundit of the week's Twitter, next stop is facebook, then fox news and finally back to the message boards, making it "real," to complete the circuit and hermetically seal the echo chamber.
It's always funny when 99% of the media parrots the same talking points, while criticism or mere disagreement are actively penalized... but when dissenting opinion does manage to reach the few outlets still even slightly open, that's "propaganda". When Facetwittubeddit stops banning accounts for their political views, then we can talk about echo chambers.