The twitter bots knew to talk about Spitfires over Dover and “sovereignty”, whatever that is.
The older people fell for it because they hark back to “better times” when they had post WW2 rationing and no repercussions for their colonial past, like non-whites running the local supermarket.
It probably has the best translation tooling. On top of that, they even learn it as their second language.
But I don’t think that’s a major factor. The UK always had special privileges within the EU and was probably just the most susceptible major country for the idea of leaving.
But I don’t think that’s a major factor. The UK always had special privileges within the EU and was probably just the most susceptible major country for the idea of leaving.
This is what is frustrating to me. There were always loads of news articles saying how the EU were making us do something or preventing us from doing something else. They ignored the fact that the UK was involved in all of those decisions and had a greater influence over them than many other EU member states.
Yes, and that thing is that English is the leading language for international communication, so Russia has plenty people that speak and write English well.
Allegedly they tried to manipulate an election in France too, but the French of the Russian agents was so horrible, that the French could spot it immediately.
Having the international language of choice is a big vulnerability in this situation.
There’s nothing like living though Brexit to make you truly appreciate how terrible an idea it was.
I wonder if there’s something about the English language that makes it’s speakers more susceptible to Russian propaganda somehow.
It’s not that.
The twitter bots knew to talk about Spitfires over Dover and “sovereignty”, whatever that is.
The older people fell for it because they hark back to “better times” when they had post WW2 rationing and no repercussions for their colonial past, like non-whites running the local supermarket.
It’s more basic than you think.
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It probably has the best translation tooling. On top of that, they even learn it as their second language.
But I don’t think that’s a major factor. The UK always had special privileges within the EU and was probably just the most susceptible major country for the idea of leaving.
This is what is frustrating to me. There were always loads of news articles saying how the EU were making us do something or preventing us from doing something else. They ignored the fact that the UK was involved in all of those decisions and had a greater influence over them than many other EU member states.
Yes, and that thing is that English is the leading language for international communication, so Russia has plenty people that speak and write English well.
Allegedly they tried to manipulate an election in France too, but the French of the Russian agents was so horrible, that the French could spot it immediately.
Having the international language of choice is a big vulnerability in this situation.
And yet plenty of people have somehow still not realised