An American social media influencer said he was paid $100 by a pro-Kremlin propagandist to post a fake video of Haitian immigrants claiming to vote in the US presidential election. The payment was one of several the man said he received from the propagandist- a registered Russian agent - to post on social media in the run-up to the election.
The headline makes it sound like the influencer took the money and posted the video.
Edit: that’s because he did. His was the account that posted the fake ‘Hatian’s voting illegally in Georgia’ video.
“I don’t have any idea where it came from or anything - I’m just the guy who shared it,” he said.
Well, isn’t that the fuckin problem?
AlphaFox said the staged Georgia video wasn’t the first time he was paid to post content on his X account. On roughly 10 other occasions, Boikov paid him $100 to post memes and videos on the account, he said.
“It started with memes, and it seemed innocent,” he told CNN.
When Boikov’s requests then shifted to posting election-related videos, like the fake Georgia voter fraud footage, “I didn’t think anything of it,” he said.
He insisted to CNN he did not know Boikov worked for Russian state media.
A useful idiot, accepting peanuts and unknowingly weakening our democracy. Anyone from any side of the political spectrum should be cautious of anyone offering money to push a meme.
Yes, we know. Not thinking is common all over the spectrum because humans™ but it’s a pre-requisite to being anything right of center.
I hate reading this stuff because these fucking ass-wipes always seem so surprised after the consequences happen and even then someone usually needs to point it out to them. Like “how could I have known???” and it’s like “very easily! It was painfully obvious and everyone was telling you including credible experts!”
The headline makes it sound like the influencer took the money and posted the video.
Edit: that’s because he did. His was the account that posted the fake ‘Hatian’s voting illegally in Georgia’ video.
Well, isn’t that the fuckin problem?
A useful idiot, accepting peanuts and unknowingly weakening our democracy. Anyone from any side of the political spectrum should be cautious of anyone offering money to push a meme.
Yes, we know. Not thinking is common all over the spectrum because humans™ but it’s a pre-requisite to being anything right of center.
I hate reading this stuff because these fucking ass-wipes always seem so surprised after the consequences happen and even then someone usually needs to point it out to them. Like “how could I have known???” and it’s like “very easily! It was painfully obvious and everyone was telling you including credible experts!”
Nah but they’re a “free thinker”, dawg.
“I need to do my own research”
$100 for an influencer. $10,000 for a congressman. It’s all peanuts for them. The ROI is insane.
Compare that to the $100,000 a week Tim Pool was getting.