There is/was a show about Russian spies living in America as Americans though. I watched a few episodes when it came out but it wasn’t my kinda thing.
TV has failed us by not making a show about catching foriegn state actors and other online trolls in the act.
Submitted 1 month ago by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 month ago
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Its called FOX news. Would not recommend.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ZING!
…guys, remember zing? We used to say zing in the 90s! Remember that? Guys? GUYS!!!
…^^^^^guys?
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It was called The Americans and had an amazing 80s soundtrack to go with it. That show was awesome.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Americans was partially based on real life. We literally traded Russian sleeper agents back in 2010.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Americans is one of the best shows ever made.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Honestly, that sounds exactly like what the CIA will produce when they need people to support censorship or just discourage people from listening to counter-narratives, the same way they supported the production of Zero Dark Thirty and Homeland when they wanted to support torture and unaccountability.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don’t forget 24. Multiple TV seasons of, “torture is necessary when you’re desperate.”
linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A drama like right now about Russians trying to influence world politics? And US elections? I’m not sure if it would be brilliant and we’d be all over it or if we’re so sick of hearing about it that we wouldn’t watch it
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was think Chris Hansen style revere cat fishing.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No pun intended, catfishing had had a hook. You had someone that had wrapped up their lives and or a serious amount of money into someone there was an emotional angle. Most of the trolls don’t really have any belief in what they’re saying and it most their drawing people out to fight with them. Definitely a shower thought.
7oo7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
A drama with the Russians would probably only last a week, maybe a month?. Add in China, Iran, and most importantly the US, and you would’ve got few season to watch.
I’m not sure if it would be brilliant and we’d be all over it or if we’re so sick of hearing about it that we wouldn’t watch it
Too bad, but the rest of the world would love to see it.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How about a Silicon Valley-like comedy except at a Russian troll farm.
“Fuck you, Guilfoylevich!”
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 month ago
[off topic?]
“Lioness” with Zoe Saldana and Nicole Kidman is a weird combination of spec ops porn and Left politics.
“Lioness” refers to a CIA program to target the wives/sisters/daughters of major terrorists. Kidman runs Saldana who in turn runs the teams on the ground. Their latest target is top financier of terror and his daughter is getting married soon…
In one episode Kidman tells Saldana that the West’s leaders are too stupid and cowardly to get us off the oil habit.
blayde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I think “Homeland” had a plotline with online misinformation farms at some point. That’s all I can think of
Soup@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
It’s not TV’s responsibility to teach.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not asking to be educated. I’m demanding to be entertained!
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 month ago
with power comes responsibility
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
More spiderman it is!
Alright people, we’re making 5 new Spider-Man films, let’s get to work!
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The oligarchy run media are very much part of the problem so looking to them for solutions is pointless.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I remember reading about digital warfare and how the character of different weaponry can be stabilising or destabilising.
So the example given was nuclear weapons. The consequences of using them are so disastrous that there is no good use case, and so they tend to be stabilising. They discourage use.
Digital warfare is destabilising, because it’s very easy to do and very hard to catch, so you’re better off using it, even without any declared war.
Information warfare is probably very similar. It’s usually such low-stakes that it wouldn’t be very exciting. I imagine it’d make a better comedy than a drama.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 month ago
That show would be boring.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I agree. “Q: Into the Storm” is the only thing that addresses part of it (that I’m aware of).
TomAwsm@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Didn’t South Park do something like this?
bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mr Robot kinda fits with China being the big baddie.
Nomad@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Well… The boys is actually pretty close. Evil corporation lying to the public and with uncle Sam’s support.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Americans was 5 (I think) glorious seasons of undercover KGB agents in the US.
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think I saw that episode of night court
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In Sweden a TV news station exposed a troll farm run by the far right party. I’d say that counts.
Evotech@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In Norway, NRK started a misinformation campaign in a local school to influence the school election to show how easy it was.
It was not well received
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 month ago
And what came of it?
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
There was a lot of talk about it in the news, and the right wing party did distance itself from some of the elements of the operation. Mostly they played the fake news card though, and essentially claimed that the deep state was against them - because the investigation came from the Swedish state media company.
They also had a lackluster election result (EU elections) right after, but who knows how much impact this thing had, if any.
Anyway, basically all of them are still in their jobs and they are actively taking a shit down the throats of the Swedish population, as they are currently in the majority block of the government and can as such get a lot of their politics through.
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nothing. Liberals and Conservatives still stand by them. Just maybe do they not do it to the same degree anymore. One of the things they did was to try and increase support for a conspiracy theory that is exists among a few immigrants in Sweden; that swedish goverment agencies kidnap their babies. I think in the exposé they did show that wanted to do this so that these conspiracy theorists would take action, because that would increase support for the far right. No issue for the other parties apparently.
fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 1 month ago
I have no idea but the usual playbook would be:
One bad apple resigns in disgrace. Bot farm closed. Start new bot farm.