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Russia Astroturfed BLM & We Have Proof
In this eye-opening episode, Malcolm and Simone Collins dive deep into shocking findings from U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee reports (2019) showing that Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) played a far greater role in astroturfing and amplifying the Black Lives Matter movement than in any alleged support for Trump during 2016.
Key revelations:
* 96% of IRA YouTube content focused on police brutality against African Americans
* 5 of the top 10 IRA Instagram accounts targeted Black audiences exclusively
* Over 66% of IRA Facebook ads revolved around racial division, overwhelmingly pro-BLM narratives
* IRA organized real-world rallies, paid activists, and even funded self-defense classes — all unknowingly
* Activity spiked post-2016 election and again in 2020, perfectly aligning with BLM surges
Malcolm explains why this well-documented information never became mainstream on the right, how both parties had incentives to downplay or ignore it, and why viewing Russia as an “ally” against progressive causes is dangerously misguided.
If you’ve ever wondered how certain movements explode seemingly overnight — or why the “Russia helped Trump” narrative dominated while this one stayed buried — this episode will change how you see modern information warfare.
Episode Transcript:
Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] So, wow. Of their top 10 accounts, five only targeted at black people.
Simone Collins: That is insane. That is not at all like the impression I was, I was given. That like in, in general, right? This is
Malcolm Collins: not the narrative that we are told. Yeah. and then you have me going through this and like, wait, this is all in like spin committee reports and stuff like that, like that Russia was behind Black Lives Matter.
Like what? So crazy. Or, and you could be like, well, Russia wasn’t everything behind Black Lives Matter. And I’d say. Okay. Maybe they weren’t, but they were more behind Black Lives matter than they ever were behind Trump. And that’s really important to the narrative that’s out there right now.
Simone Collins: Oh yeah.
Malcolm Collins: Wow. This the, the rallies. The Charlotte rallies. This is the
Simone Collins: good people on both sides. Yes.
Malcolm Collins: This is the people on both sides. One Trump was praising Russian [00:01:00] operatives on that one. Vi Eagle was praising the Democrats ‘cause that’s who the Russian operatives helped on that one.
Simone Collins: It’s a lot of people.
Would you like to know more?
Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I am excited to be here with you today. . So sometimes I’ll be doing an episode and I’ll be just like fact checking something and then I’ll notice some statistics and some numbers, or I’m like, wait, this can’t be real. And then I start going down a rabbit hole. On the rabbit hole. I went down this time.
And what’s weird about this rabbit hole is this is all outlined clear as day and like senate reports and everything like that, which we’ll be going over. And yet I haven’t heard this as a mainstream position on the right. And you guys can be like, oh no, X blew this up long ago, or whatever. But the Russian collusion operation, the IRA, like the thing that was Russiagate, the Democrats said, got Donald Trump elected.
Mm-hmm. It was significantly more involved [00:02:00] with the astroturfing and creation of the BLM movement than Trump’s. What, and this is both well documented and incredibly well attested, and yet it is like not part of the popular imagination at all.
Simone Collins: That can be we, because we would’ve heard something about that.
No, right? I mean, at least from conservatives, it’s not as though conservatives don’t ha
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