How did Russia use "Pokémon Go" to increase US internal unrest?
It has become known during the past period that Russia intervened effectively through ad campaigns organized especially on the social networking site Facebook in order to stir up unrest in the US and influence the outcome of the US elections, but it seems to be even greater to the extent that it reached the point of using the application Pokémon Go for this purpose.
A new investigative report published by the CNN channel "American" pointed out that the extent of exploitation of the Russian media was greater than the use of Facebook or Google, but also to reach other platforms such as YouTube or Tumblr and then Pokémon Go, according to CNN The "do not shoot us" movement attributed to black Americans, which appeared on social media, is in fact Russian.
CNN has confirmed that the movement "Do not Shoot Us" and on its account on YouTube has deployed about 200 videos of inflammatory content on the US police, and then this movement on the Tumblr account on the Black supporters of the movement of "Black Lives Matter" calling them To participate in the game of Pokémon Go near the areas where violent confrontations between the American police and demonstrators, and called for the campaign to change the names of the Pokemon in this game names of victims who fell in confrontations with the police, and allocated prizes to the winners, which are gift cards from Amazon.
Replace "Russia" with "Soros" and it starts making sense. Personally, I don't consider CNN a noteworthy news source anymore.
Good call! CNN is the Contrived News Network. They don't report the news, they're a business who's business is to make up news that garners good ratings. See Project Veritas for more. It's hard to trust a person's integrity if they think there's any validity to something they saw on CNN...
Informative post @drmor, the thing to remember is that these types of tactics have been practiced on both sides for decades. Vault 7 as disclosed by Wikileaks was what we (the US) had been using against other nation-states, corporations, individuals, etc... so we should certainly expect the same behavior in return. It is part and parcel of the geopolitical chess match. The real question, however, is: Was the alleged interference effective? In making more black people play Pokemon Go and get mad at police, maybe. But in turning the election to Trump? Absolutely not. That is the bait and switch behind the MSM reporting, to conflate Russian business as usual with actual effective election interference. Russians hack (or try to) the USA all the time, but to substantively interfere in a Presidential election is a whole different ball game.
This is the biggest joke ever, how can that act influence the elections? It´s like CNN is beating dead horse.
Even is the russians spent 1 milion on the election, that is nothing compared to the hundreds of millions both candidates spent!