Foreign intelligence exploits domestic racial and gun-control tensions

Evidence

Global conspiratorial propaganda efforts also reached the United States: Russian intelligence agencies created pages for fake activist groups on Facebook and Tumblr, for example, designed to exploit and exacerbate tensions over police shootings of unarmed black citizens, gun control, and other hot-button issues. — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 119

Categorization

• XREF: Russian operative pages amplifying existing American rifts parallels the vault’s out-group threat and moral-panic mechanisms. — connects to: Counterterrorism surveillance technology crosses the domestic-foreign divide; US wars abroad activate an internal racial border against domestic enemy-representatives — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 548; Cold War competition with the Soviets made domestic racism a national security liability — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 465

Broader Connections

• US wars abroad activate an internal racial border against domestic enemy-representatives #expands (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 548
• Counterterrorism surveillance technology crosses the domestic-foreign divide #expands (0.78)
• Cold War competition with the Soviets made domestic racism a national security liability #complicates (0.72) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 465