Russia is working to break democracy by boosting extremes on both sides away from moderate, centrist parties.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/23/russian-trolls-spread-vaccine-misinformation-on-twitter

Podcast I just happen to have listened to a day or two ago: https://m.soundcloud.com/user-291551645/episode-6-were-going-to-live-on-were-going-to-survive

https://twitter.com/LeopoldTraugott/status/1040162218996903936?s=20 (via Ben Turner’s reply to the AfD tweet below)

https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1043028793718321153?s=20 (why do I have to put this tweet LAST to make it show up on Twitter? Or maybe it won’t. Maybe it’s just the last url within 280 characters. Makes total sense.)

(Is the web our samizdat? No, because everything is traceable.)