The Bagus
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Q1: Why did Farage falsely claim in 2018 that he had “never met the Russian ambassador” when the Russian embassy itself had published a photo of him with Alexander Yakovenko in 2013 – just as Moscow pivoted to disrupting the EU? 3/10
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Q1: Why did Farage falsely claim in 2018 that he had “never met the Russian ambassador” when the Russian embassy itself had published a photo of him with Alexander Yakovenko in 2013 – just as Moscow pivoted to disrupting the EU? 3/10
Reposted by The Bagus
Q4 & Q5: Farage’s ally Steve Bannon used Cambridge Analytica’s data machine alongside Russian troll farms to weaponise Brexit and Trump, while journalist Isabel Oakeshott privately warned editors that Banks appeared to be an “agent of influence” for Russia. 9/10 pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...
How Online Radicalisation Works: What the New X Study Reveals About Cambridge Analytica, the IRA, and the Dark Triad Machine
The debate is over. A major new experiment shows how effective Cambridge Analytica and Russian troll farms were in shifting political emotions with hostile, anti-democratic content online
pdjukes.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Q4 & Q5: Farage’s ally Steve Bannon used Cambridge Analytica’s data machine alongside Russian troll farms to weaponise Brexit and Trump, while journalist Isabel Oakeshott privately warned editors that Banks appeared to be an “agent of influence” for Russia. 9/10 pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...