Artyom Baranov, who worked at one of the branches of the Lakhta Project from 2018 to 2020, concludes that the majority of his colleagues are people in need of money, indifferent to the subject they are asked for. write.
“If they were assigned to write a text about refrigerators, they would write about refrigerators, or say, nails, they would write about nails,” said Mr. about their work. activities. But instead of refrigerators and nails, it was “Putin, Putin, then Putin, and then Navalny,” referring to Aleksei Navalny, the jailed opposition leader.
Mr. Baranov, a trained psychoanalyst who was tasked with writing articles on Russian politics, said the job is not to make arguments, but to create an emotional, emotional response, ideally one of “indignation”. “The mission was to create a kind of explosion, to cause controversy,” he said.
When a post succeeds in infuriating the reader, he says, a colleague will sometimes comment, with satisfaction, Liberala razorvala. A freedom has been torn apart. “It is not at the level of discussing facts or making new arguments,” he said. “It’s always a way to dig into dirty clothes.”
Feminism is an obvious target, because it is seen as the “Western agenda” and hostile to the traditional values Russia stands for, Mr. Baranov said of his work with hope. Hope warns the public to be more skeptical of online material. . For months now, Russian accounts purporting to belong to Black women have been tolerating the racial rift in American feminism:
“White feminism seems to be the dumbest 2k16 trend”
“Watch Muhammad Ali shut down a white feminist criticizing his arrogance”
“Aint has time for your white feminist bullshit”
“Why Black Feminists Don’t Debt Hillary Clinton Their Support”
