==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://graphika.com/reports/g... https://twitter.com/benimmo/status/1309212887601287173">https://twitter.com/benimmo/s...

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& #39;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& #39;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">https://twitter.com/JanAFredr...

(This one is admittedly bit off topic, but affirms point I& #39;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">https://twitter.com/bobfrombr...