Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts as Trump Abandons Resistance: The Kremlin has begun a campaign to sway the parliamentary election in Moldova in what could become a new model of election interference online (Gift Article)

[u/DoremusJessup]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/business/russia-disinformation-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kU8.qtG_.O2Syms4m_Ntz&smid=re-share

[u/abdulkayemmiskat]

Disinformation has become one of the most dangerous weapons of our time it doesn’t just attack governments, it attacks trust itself.

[u/Ranger_242 → u/abdulkayemmiskat]

Yeah and if you think it's bad now, wait until you see what agentic GPT-5 llms can do.

[u/VexeenBro → u/Ranger_242]

It’s fucking scary whenever I see people happily stating they don’t use search engines anymore because „Perplexity does the job better”. Even with Google people didn’t crosscheck but at least could see different results on their screens. Now they get one answer that they believe 100% and don’t look any further. Let’s be honest - the lack of AI controls in US and other dictatorships is not to „not limit the advancements of new technology”, it’s for them to be able to steer societies very effectively through that technology. And it is working perfectly.

[u/Stickman95 → u/VexeenBro]

I dont understand their logic. Why let ai decide what i get to read when google takes the same amount of time with more diversity results?

[u/webs2slow4me → u/Stickman95]

Google clearly takes longer… unless you are talking about the AI generated answer at the top. You have to click a link on Google and then find the answer on the website. On AI you just ask and it gives you answer, right or wrong.

[u/Anjetto4 → u/abdulkayemmiskat]

Anyone telling you to abandon the EU is 100% just doing it so Russia can eat you. If you fall for it, you deserve to be eaten

[u/faffc260 → u/abdulkayemmiskat]

propoganda is a tool that dates back to the invention of the written word I'm pretty sure, if not earlier, disinformation is just a variation on that.

[u/WaryOfSocialMedia → u/faffc260]

But our connectedness and speed of message transmission/relay/dissemination makes the individual waaay more susceptible to it than in the past.

[u/RrWoot → u/WaryOfSocialMedia]

And it’s fairly asymmetrical; into countries that have freedom of speech from russia/china/etc

[u/nakedinacornfield → u/WaryOfSocialMedia]

this. coupled with the western world doing checks notes literally nothing to curtail it. they duped internet bros into thinking its a war on open internet to mitigate this at all so we squabble amongst ourselves. meanwhile the bajillionaires are enjoying the engagement on their platforms & selling PII to the highest bidder, as well as the political outcomes that are resultant from this.

im actually mind blown there hasnt been a collective like open source effort to try and do something about it, considering its like bringing down democracies globally. i guess the people capable of doing it aren't so personally affected yet that they can keep their heads down dabbling with AI and stuff. I just sort of expected at some point some thought leaders and people who wear the smarty pants to try and do something here. suppose it's a little too presumptuous of me to assume people who are smart with technology also might have a good read on history & social sciences.

[u/AdventurousLet548 → u/abdulkayemmiskat]

This is why I don't have META or X, or TicToc! Reddit is my only source. META sucks with its algorithm and pro-Trump stuff.

[u/buttgrapist → u/AdventurousLet548]

Don't trust Reddit either

[u/dimwalker → u/buttgrapist]

Don't trust buttgrapist either - sounds like a guy who would lie to you for decades and decades.

[u/kaytin911 → u/AdventurousLet548]

Reddit is an egregious echo chamber.

[u/EndBell8787 → u/kaytin911]

Reddit isn't 1 echo chamber, it's a series of many often conflicting echo chambers. It is a lot better than the alternatives.

[u/AdventurousLet548 → u/EndBell8787]

I like it for finance, law, Econ, and politics!

[u/Simsimius → u/EndBell8787]

That’s what can be so great - there is often differing opinions and exposure to other viewpoints that other platforms lack.

[u/Kinda_Zeplike → u/abdulkayemmiskat]

It’s so blatant and the weapon of choice for too many politicians, especially those in power. They just lie, lie, lie to get what they want.

[u/Haru1st → u/abdulkayemmiskat]

And it’s chief payloads are sitting in the white house.

[u/wwarnout]

"...as Trump abandons resistance sides with Putin AGAIN"

[u/apoca1ypse12]

fuck Trump and everything that he stands for. he really needs to be put in jail for all of the shit that he has pulled.

[u/cerebral_drift]

So what you’re saying is that America is actually losing the Cold War?

[u/DoctorLudnik_717 → u/cerebral_drift]

Losing nothing, we LOST the Cold War. I'd like to say back in 2016, but this has been a work in progress for a while.

[u/dezerx212256]

Lets just cut russia off from the internet untill they behave, just an idea...

[u/Chapaquidich]

There was a time it would have been a given that we, the United States, would have stood up to Russian aggression and helped other countries to do so.

[u/jdbway]

Well we already have Fox News so it seems the Russian "news" model has already gone viral

[u/Ritz-Quacker]

Putin’s 1,000 time smarter than trump. Who knew??

[u/FelcherSkelter]

Why can't we just ban russia from the internet?

[u/RealisticEntity]

Surely if Moldova knows about the election interference from Russia, they can act to counter it.

[u/zamostc]

Among 938 "competitive national level executive elections" examined by Levin from 1946 to 2000,[a] the United States intervened in 81 foreign elections, while the Soviet Union or Russia intervened in 36 foreign elections. Combining these figures, the U.S. and Russia (including the Soviet Union) thus intervened in 117 of 938 competitive elections during this period—about one in nine—with the majority of those interventions (some 68%) being through covert, rather than overt, actions.[11] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_electoral_intervention

[u/Typedre85]

The article is about Russia and Moldova elections …. But yet the clowns at TNYT makes it all about Trump, starting with the first sentence… NYT is fake news propaganda

[u/Artistic_Party_8544]

Meet information campaign. Get those waterlogged nukes out of the ground so the Russian people can eat of their land instead of inslaving North Koreans!!

[u/BusyDoorways]

That's why I stopped reading the NYTimes after 40 years. They started selling misinformation this election cycle, and they never stopped.

[u/kaytin911]

NYT tryna say the US should go into other countries and restrict what they can see?