The Russians are after ME, And I have proof!
When I started blogging about a year ago, I was pretty
clueless. I started posting to a free
Google owned platform called Blogger,
but soon realized I was at a severe disadvantage here.
First, the platform itself got relatively little
traffic. Second I was fighting for space
against Stephen Colbert monologues and anti-Trump cartoons, which frankly
appealed more to me than my own stuff… so you can see the problem here. And third, my little opinion pieces were
averaging two pages in length (right, I’m working on that ) and in this day and
age of instant everything, asking someone who has no clue who you are, to spend
so much time reading your musings, well, that just was asking an awful lot.
Over time I found some success in simultaneously posting to
half a dozen left leaning groups on Face Book (the right leaning ones wouldn’t take
me. I know, I tried) These sites
got a lot more traffic, that’s where I now can get some amount of
name recognition in friendly confines
But I still post everything to Blogger, where everything remains
aggregated, for my own record keeping purposes
The thing about Blogger, is the site captures all kinds of
cool stats, including the location of the viewer. As you can see by the picture
I posted the # 2 country is Russia, albeit it’s a distant #2.
Still, why would Russia, have ANY interest in me,
in my extremely small corner of the world? Who the hell am I? No
one.
The only logical explanation is my constant use of the “T”
word ( I don’t want to call the moron by name, for they are probably watching
me right now) . That must be very appealing to them. You see the Russians have these automated
bots out there scouring Face Book and any and all other Internet sites. In speaking with some IT folks, it turns
out, Russian probing and targeting is pretty routine, everywhere.
Laura Rosenberger, who studies Russian influence operations
as director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy, says given messages are
geared for specific groups where they have more “currency” as they look to push
different groups to extremes. If they
pickup on any pro-Trump musings, they then work to reinforce those ideas with
whatever crap and fake news they come up with and push it out to those same pro
Trump followers
So, I know the bots will keep checking me out. It’s what they do. They can’t help themselves. But if they were
smart, they’d already know that any pro-Trump propaganda they might send my
way, would just be falling on deaf ears.
Their time would be better spent searching out and abusing other poor unsuspecting
folks who have real difficulty separating truth from fake news. Sad to say, there are a lot of people in the
country who fall into that category.
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