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The Russia-linked Internet Research Agency (IRA) may have tried to blackmail potential American recruits by setting up a fake anti-masturbation hotline, according to a new report prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee. The IRA reportedly advertised its hotline on a fake Christian Facebook page, encouraging readers to reach out if they were “struggling with the addiction to masturbation.”

The report includes three examples of IRA posts: one posted to the fake pro-LGBT Facebook page “LGBT United” and two posted to the faux religious group “Army of Jesus.” The former was a straightforward offer of support to struggling gay, lesbian, or transgender teens. The latter two apparently pointed to a hotline for guilty masturbators. “Struggling with the addiction to masturbation? Reach out to me and we will beat it together,” said one post in a quote attributed to Jesus.
“You can’t hold hands with God when you are masturbating,” said the other. “Use our hotline if you need help.”
The researchers drew these details from a trove of IRA-related posts — including 10.4 million tweets from 3,841 accounts, 1,100 YouTube videos across 17 channels, 116,000 Instagram posts from 133 accounts, and 61,500 Facebook posts from 61 pages — provided by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Beyond the hotline details, the white paper alleges that Instagram was a “significant front” in the influence operations, especially after media reports started covering the group’s activities on Twitter and Facebook, pushing the group toward Instagram in 2017. Earlier reports have described the IRA targeting black Americans for propaganda, but the researchers here point to a particularly concerted effort on YouTube, where “by far” the most content was focused on Black Lives Matter and police brutality.
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The report includes three examples of IRA posts: one posted to the fake pro-LGBT Facebook page “LGBT United” and two posted to the faux religious group “Army of Jesus.” The former was a straightforward offer of support to struggling gay, lesbian, or transgender teens. The latter two apparently pointed to a hotline for guilty masturbators. “Struggling with the addiction to masturbation? Reach out to me and we will beat it together,” said one post in a quote attributed to Jesus.
“You can’t hold hands with God when you are masturbating,” said the other. “Use our hotline if you need help.”
The researchers drew these details from a trove of IRA-related posts — including 10.4 million tweets from 3,841 accounts, 1,100 YouTube videos across 17 channels, 116,000 Instagram posts from 133 accounts, and 61,500 Facebook posts from 61 pages — provided by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Beyond the hotline details, the white paper alleges that Instagram was a “significant front” in the influence operations, especially after media reports started covering the group’s activities on Twitter and Facebook, pushing the group toward Instagram in 2017. Earlier reports have described the IRA targeting black Americans for propaganda, but the researchers here point to a particularly concerted effort on YouTube, where “by far” the most content was focused on Black Lives Matter and police brutality.
read more
#conspiracy #hoax #usa #russia #russiainvestigation #russianspy #masturbation
