Report persons here spreading Russian propaganda to the FBI.
They are in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) if they are not making disclosures.
[“The purpose of FARA is to insure that the U.S. Government and the people of the United States are informed of the source of information (propaganda) and the identity of persons attempting to influence U.S. public opinion, policy, and laws. In 1938, FARA was Congress’ response to the large number of German propaganda agents in the pre-WWII U.S…”]
Wouldn’t you need to be doing more than “spreading Russian propaganda”? You would also need to be in a principal-agent relationship with the foreign government. Otherwise, if Australians living in the US said to their friends “visit Australia – it’s a wonderful place”, they’d need to register under the FARA. They would only need to do so if acting as an agent of the Australian government.
I have a facebook friend in Brunei, who sometimes posts messages to me that Brunei is a nice place. Should I report her for spreading Bruneian propaganda? How do I know if she is acting as an agent for the government? Presume guilt until proved innocent? If I forward them to someone else, does that make me a foreign agent?
I remember the McCarthy hearings, I was in high school.
In fact, I too genuinely didn’t understand your sentence and stayed
I only got it when I read this “Mister Grammar” comment. I realized there must have been an alternative way to parse the sentence, reread it and then only understood what you meant.
