Primary sources tend to disagree
Here’s a study from 2019 about it that backs up my assertion that more is conservative academic.oup.com/joc/article/69/2/168/5425470
And of that propaganda being created, that conservative inclined people are most likely to fall for it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/…/20563051231220330
There seem to be plenty of other papers that more or less reach those same conclusions with a good number of citations, but I can’t find anything really at all on Google Scholar concluding the opposite with a quick search, let alone something also credible.
The closest some papers come is saying that they try groups all over the political spectrum, as their goal is disunity ultimately, but they seemingly don’t really have any kind of continued success with misinforming those groups anywhere near as effectively. They more or less all end up concluding that most of the propaganda targets conservatives, because they’re the ones that fall for it.
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Your article doesn’t seem to mention Russia once.
Rumors and smears are part of free speech. To the extent that right-wing trolls and their audience are actual voters, it’s essentially just a coarse form of ordinary political speech.
The extent to which a foreign government acting coverly is either creating or artificially boosting such content is scandalous.
Diva@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
realistically speaking our own governments are way more involved with manipulating our media than the ‘foreigners’ as people love to fearmonger about
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
True enough. But even a tyrannical government at least has a presumable intent of working for the betterment of its country. (Albeit through wrongheaded and small-minded means )
A.foreijgn power, especially a historical adversary and bad actor, is instead presumably working to harm or diminish us.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
No, they have the intent of working for themselves. That’s it. They don’t give a shit about the country and you should never presume the ruling class of your country has your country’s best interests in mind.
troed@fedia.io 3 hours ago
Feel free to read any other article that does, if you somehow have managed to avoid learning about russian influence campaigns over the last decade.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Maybe someone wants you to think that Russian influence campaigns are a problem and so they feed you articles.
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You presented it as proof that Russia is supporting misinformation on the left. To be that, it has to both include all three parts of the claim – that there is disinformation on the left, that Russia is covertly supporting disinformation, and that some of the disinformation on the left was supported by Russia.
If your wife sleeps around, and I engage in casual sex, it does not necessarily follow that I slept with your wife.
A common suspicion in America is that Vladimir Putin believes that Trump as POTUS is good for Russia, and that Putin interferes with US politics with a specific goal of helping Trump.
If you have some reporting that directly links Russia to left-wing disinformation I’d love to read it. But the BBC article I read after following your link didn’t have any such link.
troed@fedia.io 1 hour ago
This is the third time I post this paper in this thread: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00207020241257635
There are plenty more. You spent more time writing your post than it takes to find them.