==Short thread on Twitter disinfo==

I had a brief look at the accounts who were interacting with "Pam Spenser", now exposed by @camillefrancois et al of @Graphika_NYC as fake journalist created by Russian intelligence agents to amplify pro-Russian https://graphika.com/reports/gru-and-the-minions/ https://twitter.com/benimmo/status/1309212887601287173

The accounts amplifying "Spenser" will be familiar to anyone who has had the misfortune to be mobbed by pro-Assad/pro-Putin trolls on this website

This example is both tragic & funny: Politikḗ, an account with 5K followers, used "Spenser" to troll the late David Graeber, accusing him of being a war-monger, pointing to "Spenser" (*literally* Russian war propaganda) saying "This is not war propaganda. Spot the difference."

(Btw, Politikḗ, an anti-masker, is followed by Peirs Robinson, Neil Clarke, Tim Haywood, John Wight, Alex Gordon, Steve Topple, Matt Kennard, Vanessa Beely, Anna Brees, Skwawkbox, Marcelo Ferrado, Anya Parampil, MW Gordon-Banks, Russia's Embassy in S Africa, Lee Stranahan, etc)

And this "Spenser" fan is so incensed by her evidence-free Islamophobic smears on Sunni rebels that he calls for their genocide.

There's something comedic about Russian troll factories using pictures of Norwegian actors to pump out spin, but it is actually deadly serious.

Worth noting, by the way, that it was obvious *years ago* to pro free Syrian activists on here that this was a fake account, long before any of the social media platforms hosting her took any action. https://twitter.com/JanAFredriksson/status/953196321976004608?s=20

(This one is admittedly bit off topic, but affirms point I've made in previous threads about the overlap between Syria truthers & COVID conspiracists, and how they seep into the mainstream right (via people like Peter Hitchins) & left (via these accounts) https://twitter.com/bobfrombrockley/status/1309470923662262272?s=20