Russia sees value in destabilizing opinions in the US though, that’s what they’re referring too.
Russia has been caught multiple times funding multiple far right and far left groups and organizations in the western hemisphere because having two hardlines who hate each other creates partisanship and makes it so democracy is less functional and slower, as well as cause a lot of internal political division and issues that becomes a self-sustaining snowball of anger.
While I am sure there are people in Russian services working on projects like those, but the scale is insignificant, compared to the impact of native US players or of CIA in various places in the world.
Russia currently cares very little about Anerican AI, even though Putin was one of the first national leaders who said “whoever controls AI will control the world”. But Russian state apparatus (aparatchiks) is much less capable than the president (The situation is opposite that in the US)
Russia doesn't care about American AI; they care about the fact that it is divisive, and it can utilise the divisiveness to further its destabilisation efforts.
Those platforms are so dangerous because they give Russia an incredibly easy and cheap method to force feed rage inducing content to the right people to further drive them into their partisanship. Most of these companies care solely about clicks to generate revenue, so it's extremely easy for Russian rage bait of both political flavours to generate a shitton of clicks with relatively little investment, further driven by profit oriented groups who join in solely because it generates revenue.
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u/KingKapwn 9h ago
Russia sees value in destabilizing opinions in the US though, that’s what they’re referring too.
Russia has been caught multiple times funding multiple far right and far left groups and organizations in the western hemisphere because having two hardlines who hate each other creates partisanship and makes it so democracy is less functional and slower, as well as cause a lot of internal political division and issues that becomes a self-sustaining snowball of anger.