Propaganda can be VERY POWERFUL. Fictional news gets LOTS of attention. Robots pretending to be people post comments designed to trigger your deepest fears.
The easiest fear to trigger is that a stranger is going to take your children, all your food, your life, or your job.
Since fear is irrational, the only way to fight propaganda is to be rational.
Rationally, we know that Putin is making every effort to support candidates who might remove their country from the EU.
France is holding an historic election. Please, France, pay attention to what happened in Britain and the US. Listen to your basic values of liberty, equality and fraternity. Russia wants you to treat Muslims in the same way the Vichy treated the Jews.
Putin succeeded in fooling the British into leaving the EU. Worse, Britain is unwilling to admit that propaganda influenced the election, and that rational Brits think leaving the EU is expensive, dangerous, and plays into Putin's hands.
It is fairly amazing what is happening in the US now that the robot trolls no longer control most of our social media.
Please France, learn from the mistakes made by your closest allies. Do NOT vote for Le Pen.
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