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Putin Vs Facebook: Is The Russian Leader on The Losing Side?
Has it begun unravelling for the 21st century Tsar?
In his quest for global dominance, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin found social media a highly relevant and powerful tool.
Facebook was the weapon of choice for the Russian bear, who seemed quite determined in bending the world to his will.
It was extremely helpful in selling disinformation to the British public, that the Romanians, Poles, Kosovans were the enemies and we needed to separate from Europe to achieve its full potential.
It was also useful in selling to white rural Americans, that Blacks and the Mexicans were the enemy, and that whites were losing their status as the dominant social group in America and ultimately responsible for elevating Donald Trump to the most powerful job in the world.
It was central in recruiting disparate far right groups in spreading harmful propaganda on its behalf, everywhere.
You could argue with a degree of credibility that Facebook was as just as instrumental as the oligarchs were in consolidating Putin’s grip on power at home and abroad.
And his inexorable rise was made possible by the unscrupulousness of Mark Zuckerberg and his extraordinary avarice; If the Russians were prepared to pay a fortune to…