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11-14-2017, 03:15 PM
Russian ministry of defense tweets video game screenshot to accuse U.S. of cooperating with ISIS
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Russian trolls are the talk of the town once again after a congressional investigation revealed (https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/exhibit_b.pdf) the magnitude their fake social media accounts managed to fool us all.*
SEE ALSO: Russian trolls pushed the California and Texas secession movements (http://mashable.com/2017/11/07/calexit-texit-russia-internet-research-agency/)
But what happens when the official account of the Russian ministry of defence tweets a fake picture of a military operation?*
This morning, @mod_russia (https://twitter.com/mod_russia) tweeted a series of drone combat pictures to accuse the U.S. of cooperation with the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria.*
"The Ministry of Defence shows irrefutable evidence that #US (https://twitter.com/hashtag/US?src=hash) are actually covering ISIS combat units to recover their combat capabilities, redeploy, and use them to promote American interests in Middle East," it said in the tweet.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/14/russia-ministry-defence-videogame-picture-us/)
More about Syria (http://mashable.com/category/syria/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Isis (http://mashable.com/category/isis/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Russian Ministry Of Defence (http://mashable.com/category/russian-ministry-of-defence/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Russian Trolls (http://mashable.com/category/russian-trolls/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Russian Bots (http://mashable.com/category/russian-bots/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/bfKgKT6wiB8
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Russian trolls are the talk of the town once again after a congressional investigation revealed (https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/exhibit_b.pdf) the magnitude their fake social media accounts managed to fool us all.*
SEE ALSO: Russian trolls pushed the California and Texas secession movements (http://mashable.com/2017/11/07/calexit-texit-russia-internet-research-agency/)
But what happens when the official account of the Russian ministry of defence tweets a fake picture of a military operation?*
This morning, @mod_russia (https://twitter.com/mod_russia) tweeted a series of drone combat pictures to accuse the U.S. of cooperation with the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria.*
"The Ministry of Defence shows irrefutable evidence that #US (https://twitter.com/hashtag/US?src=hash) are actually covering ISIS combat units to recover their combat capabilities, redeploy, and use them to promote American interests in Middle East," it said in the tweet.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/14/russia-ministry-defence-videogame-picture-us/)
More about Syria (http://mashable.com/category/syria/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Isis (http://mashable.com/category/isis/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Russian Ministry Of Defence (http://mashable.com/category/russian-ministry-of-defence/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Russian Trolls (http://mashable.com/category/russian-trolls/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Russian Bots (http://mashable.com/category/russian-bots/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/bfKgKT6wiB8