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Misinformation on Climate and Meat Pushed by Russian-Backed Influencers in U.S.
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Why aren't these people in jail for acting as unregistered foreign agents?
AG Garland is an ineffectual punk ass bitch?
Because they're busy making animal rights activists get legally processed like domestic terrorists. So when it comes to animal agriculture you can pick your poison between foreign misinfo, domestic misinfo, and terrorism.
I remember, pre-9/11, that the hard right thought leaders were trying to convince everyone that ALF and ELF were no different than infamous terrorist outlets. They spent a lot of effort to build equivalency with domestic terrorists like McVeigh. Then 9/11 happened, and this kind of talk seemed to go away - at least for a while.
But, even on the "war on terror", I did notice that apparently vegan potluck groups were something to be suspicious of...
Alas, Wikipedia has a good explanation on this point, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_agent#United_States
If that's right, then it seems the question here then whether Russia was just giving money to keep afloat influencers who would have gone with this nonsense anyways, or if Russia had more direct control via request making.
I suspect it's the second one, but it seems a full trial would be needed to prove it, and I can imagine the handlers being really good at making sure there was never any paperwork to use as evidence that "requests" were made.