A pretty good summary of the DOJ documents in the Russian propaganda campaign.
but but how are conservatives going to perform their ‘research’ without niche propaganda sites?!
Oh my god the Garland is doing something! Gather around, children, this only happens once per century.
I wonder if they will replace the pages with anything that explains that the site was seized and taken down for being part of election interference and misinformation.
Would be cool to see all the old links and copy/pasted fascist text walls get updated.
This was my initial thought as well. It would be relatively easy to put up some text explaining what happened to try and undo some of the damage.
There’s a problem there, though. The propaganda was basically various versions of “The government (when run by Democrats) is bad, don’t trust the government.”
If they put up a notice saying, “This domain was seized, here’s the real facts!” the target of the propaganda isn’t going to buy it for a hot minute.
If they put up replacement content that doesn’t mention the government seizure, tha target of the propaganda is already primed to shout, “Fake news!” at anything that disputes their existing worldview.
It’s best to just let those domains return like a 504 Internal Server Error and die a quiet death.
Did they forget twitter?
