DISINFO: Russiagate was a collective hysteria campaign to control American society by shadowy elites

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DISINFO: Russiagate was a collective hysteria campaign to control American society by shadowy elites

SUMMARY

The standard way to control the behaviour of American society is mass hysteria campaigns, as was the case with McCarthyism (anti-communism) in the 1950s, or “Russiagate” in the past four years. Men in the shadows and holders of the levers in the United States are moving the hysteria levers to the extent that the totalitarianism of society automatically turns itself in the desired direction, so society itself becomes the represser of dissidents (dismissing Trump supporters from their jobs, or harassing and blocking them on social media, for example).

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Russiagate which denies Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election, and secret power elites.

Robert Mueller's investigation concluded that Russia did interfere in the 2016 election. Mueller’s report maintains that “the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities”. Nevertheless, it states that Russian interference activities did take place.

The 448-page Mueller report issued in March 2019 (see here) contains copious detail about how Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, both by using social media to influence American voters with disinformation and by hacking into the Clinton campaign’s computers.

A previous (2017) report prepared by the US Intelligence Community analysed the motivation and scope of the Kremlin's intentions for the US election and the Kremlin's use of cyber tools and media campaigns to influence US public opinion. The report concluded that Moscow interfered in the US elections and that it had carried out this effort "in sweeping and systematic fashion".

As concluded earlier by the US intelligence community and by Mueller’s own inquiry “the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts”. Read here for an overview of Russia's methods of electoral interference.

For case studies on Russia's electoral interference see here.

Read here previous cases claiming the Russiagate was a hoax invented by the American deep state, that the US President’s Russia affair is a factless conspiracy theory and that the Mueller Report never presented tangible evidence of Russian interference in the US elections.

This disinformation message appeared in the same article as the claim that the US is a totalitarian state.

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