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A former FBI agent has alleged that Russia’s GRU intelligence agency targeted tech billionaire Elon Musk for exploitation and offered him direct contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Former FBI Counterintelligence Special Agent Jonathan Buma stated that Russian intelligence had special operations to influence Silicon Valley tech CEOs such as Musk and venture capitalist Peter Thiel that included gathering damning information that could later be used as blackmail.

“Musk’s susceptibility to promiscuous women and drug use, particularly ketamine… were seen by Russian intelligence as an opportunity for an agent to exploit,” said the former FBI Special Agent in a recently released documentary by the German Television Broadcaster ZDF.

  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    9 hours ago

    This is a great demonstration of how disinformation agents work.

    There are multiple sources, a full documentary, interviews with the creators, the agent is named. etc. And most of the top comments on the posts about this, are from troll farms out of Russia talking about how the source is bad, how it’s just gossip, no one is named, etc. and generally just lying to discredit the story.

    • vga@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      So by disinformation do you now refer to the news article itself or to comments about the news article? What mechanism did you use to verify any of this?

    • gradual@lemmings.worldEnglish
      101·
      8 hours ago

      It’s difficult to convince this generation not to believe everything they read on the internet because getting swept up in hysteria is part of the entertainment.