New York Times: “The online conversations reflect how pro-Russia sentiment has increasingly penetrated Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, right-wing podcasts, messaging apps like Telegram and some conservative media. As Russia attacked Ukraine this week, those views spread, infusing the online discourse over the war with sympathy — and even approval — for the aggressor.”
“The positive Russia rhetoric is an extension of the culture wars and grievance politics that have animated the right in the United States in the past few years.”
