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Заглавный материал в новом номере журнала Economist посвящён путинским попыткам вмешивается в демократические процессы в других странах. Журнал призывает к отпору и критикует Америку за бездействие.

Republican leaders in Congress are failing their country: at the least they should hold emergency hearings to protect America from subversion in the mid-term elections. Just now, with Mr Trump obsessively blaming the FBI and Democrats, it looks as if America does not believe democracy is worth fighting for.
https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21737276-and-why-wests-response-inadequate-how-putin-meddles-western-democracies



На графике активности путинских троллей в США начальная точка хронологически совпадает с кампанией по дезинформации вокруг MH17.

In July of that year 298 people were killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Russian missile over eastern Ukraine. The Kremlin responded with a barrage of disinformation blaming Ukraine. Its defence ministry hosted a press conference at which it presented fake data on the plane’s flight path, as well as a tampered video which made it appear that the lorry carrying the missile had passed through Ukrainian-controlled territory. As European public opinion turned sharply anti-Russian, the Kremlin stepped up efforts at covert influence well beyond Ukraine proper.
https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21737297-mueller-indictment-reveals-some-kremlins-tactics-russian-disinformation-distorts



В расследовании Wall Street Journal расказывается, что деятельность путинских троллей не ограничивалась агитацией на выборах, а включала в себя, к примеру, попытки посеять панику ложными сообщениями об отравленных индейках на День благодарения в 2015. Там также упоминается MH17 в качестве маркера взлёта их активности.

The Journal’s data shows a small number of Russian tweets before 2014, but it was a deadly plane crash that year that brought out the strongest early response. On July 17, 2014, an anti-aircraft missile shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers and crew.
While the Obama administration quickly fingered Russian-backed insurgents in eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin suggested it was Ukrainian forces that downed the airliner. A safety board in the Netherlands, which lost many citizens in the crash, concluded the plane was shot down by a Russian-made missile fired from eastern Ukraine.
Russian-linked Twitter users at first tweeted news of the tragedy, but within hours they were raising questions about who was responsible. By the next morning, they had latched onto a hashtag blaming the Ukrainian government: КиевСбилБоинг – Kiev shot down the airliner.
In all, the Journal found 78 now-deactivated Twitter accounts that participated in the Malaysian Flight 17 campaign. They tweeted about it for months.
Not long after the airliner disaster, Russian-linked accounts began turning their attention to America.
http://www.wsj.com/graphics/russian-trolls-tweeted-disinformation-long-before-u-s-election/

Мы не знаем, чем закончится «информационная война» путинской России с США и Европой. Но немного лучше себе представляем, каким образом она началась.