From: user6340@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   JTEM  posted:   
   > On 12/26/25 4:34 PM, Steven Douglas wrote:   
   >   
   > > I feel the same way about you and Putin. Is it   
   > > true that Russia pays people to go on social media   
   > > and spew Russian propaganda?   
   >   
   > The British were already spending $2 billion a year to propagate   
   > the monarchy approved view of the world... a decade ago? Decades   
   > ago?   
   >   
   > When was Radio Free Europe started?   
      
   We also have the Voice of America. You're comparing   
   voices of freedom to anything that comes out of Russia?   
   >   
   > I'm actually far more worried & pissed off by the western European   
   > propaganda we get, or even the recent Canadian government   
   > propaganda but at least the Canadians were doing it in the clear,   
   > not clandestinely.   
   >   
   > Did you miss it? Twitter/X just recently started tagging accounts   
   > with the country of supposed origins -- determined by I.P.   
   > address -- and there are TONS of American political accounts in   
   > Europe and elsewhere.   
   >   
   > And one very interesting American account in Israel...   
   >   
   > Google it!   
      
   I don't have a problem with those. I do have a   
   problem with Russians spewing their lies, though.   
      
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