6. 2010–2016: Revolution Shakedown

  1.      Sarah Kendzior, “Inventing Akromiya: The Role of Uzbek Propagandists in the Andijon Massacre,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 14, no. 4 (Fall 2006): 545–562, https://www.academia.edu/170210/Inventing_Akromiya_The_Role_of_Uzbek_Propagandists_in_the_Andijon_Massacre.

  2.      Darya Korsunskaya, “Putin Says Russia Must Prevent ‘Color Revolution,’” Reuters, November 20, 2014, https://news.yahoo.com/putin-says-russia-must-guard-against-color-revolutions-135807378.html.

  3.      Rebecca MacKinnon, “China’s ‘Networked Authoritarianism,’” Journal of Democracy 22, no. 2 (April 2011): 32–46, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/427159.

  4.      Katy E. Pearce and Sarah Kendzior, “Networked Authoritarianism and Social Media in Azerbaijan,” Journal of Communication 62, no. 2 (2012), https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2012.01633.x.

  5.      Amnesty International, “Journalist Khadija Freed in Azerbaijan, After Being Blackmailed and Unjustly Imprisoned by Her Government,” January 12, 2018, https://www.amnesty.org.uk/journalist-khadija-ismayilova-free-azerbaijan-imprisoned-blackmailed-government-corruption.

  6.      Alexey Kovalev, “Russia’s Blogging Revolution,” The Guardian, September 24, 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/sep/24/russia-blogging-revolution.

  7.      Peter Pomerantzev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (Philadelphia: PublicAffairs, 2015).

  8.      Sarah Kendzior, “The Strange Saga of a Made-Up Activist and Her Life—and Death—as a Hoax,” The Atlantic, December 20, 2011, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/the-strange-saga-of-a-made-up-activist-and-her-life-and-death-as-a-hoax/250203/.

  9.      Jaron Lanier, “The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of WikiLeaks,” The Atlantic, December 20, 2010, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/the-hazards-of-nerd-supremacy-the-case-of-WikiLeaks/68217/.

  10.    Malcolm Nance, The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and his Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West (New York: Hachette Books, 2018).

  11.    Ivan Sigal, Public Radio International, “Syria’s war may be the most documented ever. And yet, we know so little,” December 19, 2016, https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-12-19/syrias-war-may-be-most-documented-ever-and-yet-we-know-so-little.

  12.    Ashley Gold, “Wylie to House Dems: Bannon Ordered Putin Messaging Tests,” Politico, April 25, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/25/wylie-bannon-putin-messages-553738.

  13.    Ryan Broderick, “Christchurch: This Will Keep Happening,” Buzz-Feed News, March 15, 2019, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/murder-as-a-meme-white-male-violence-is-being-distributed.

  14.    Kathy Sierra, “Trouble at the Kool-Aid Point,” Serious Pony (blog), October 7, 2014, http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point.

  15.    Noreen Malone, “Zoe and the Trolls,” New York, July 24, 2017, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/zoe-quinn-surviving-gamergate.html.

  16.    Ryan Broderick, “Activists Are Outing Hundreds of Twitter Users Believed to Be 4chan Trolls Posing As Feminists,” BuzzFeed News, June 17, 2014, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/your-slip-is-showing-4chan-trolls-operation-lollipop.

  17.    Sarah Kendzior, “Russia’s Social Media Propaganda Was Hiding in Plain Sight,” NBC News, November 2, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/russia-s-social-media-propaganda-was-hiding-plain-sight-ncna816886.

  18.    Gold, “Wylie to House Dems.”

  19.    Sarah Kendzior, “The Minimum Wage Worker Strikes Back,” Medium, April 14, 2014, https://medium.com/@sarahkendzior/the-minimum-wage-worker-strikes-back-fa4c36eb306b.

  20.    Pamela Engel, “Missouri State Senator Tells Police Chief She Was Tear Gassed While Protesting Peacefully in Ferguson,” Business Insider, August 13, 2014, https://www.businessinsider.com/missouri-state-senator-gassed-while-protesting-in-ferguson-2014-8.

  21.    Nicholas Pistor and Joe Holleman, “St. Louis Prosecutor Has Faced Controversy for Decades,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 16, 2014, https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/st-louis-prosecutor-has-faced-controversy-for-decades/article_cdd4c104-6086-506e-9ee8-aa957a31fee5.html.

  22.    Sarah Kendzior, “Meet Darren Seals. Then Tell Me Black Death Is Not a Business,” De Correspondent, October 1, 2016, https://thecorrespondent.com/5349/meet-darren-seals-then-tell-me-black-death-is-not-a-business/1512965275833-fe73c5b1.

  23.    Bruce Franks Jr., “If I Don’t Make This Move, St. Louis Is Going to Kill Me,” St. Louis American, July 19, 2019, http://www.stlamerican.com/news/columnists/guest_columnists/if-i-don-t-make-this-move-st-louis-is/article_b6dbe594-aa4e-11e9-af76-bf4ee9e9def4.html.

  24.    Kim Bell, “Trump Blames Gangs of Illegal Immigrants for Woes in Ferguson, St. Louis,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 25, 2016, https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/trump-blames-gangs-of-illegal-immigrants-for-woes-in-ferguson/article_ab07521a-1426-5799-9908-00e3eeb5398b.html.

  25.    Jamil Smith, “The Central Park Five Told Us Who Donald Trump Really Is,” MTV News, August 23, 2016, http://www.mtv.com/news/2922644/the-central-park-five-ad-told-us-who-donald-trump-really-is/.

  26.    Associated Press, “National Enquirer hid Trump secrets in a safe, removed them before inauguration,” NBC News, August 23, 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/national-enquirer-hid-trump-secrets-safe-removed-them-inauguration-n903356.

  27.    Larry Solov, “Breitbart News Network: Born in the USA, Conceived in Israel,” Breitbart, November 17, 2015, https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2015/11/17/breitbart-news-network-born-in-the-usa-conceived-in-israel/.

  28.    Business Insider, “Donald Trump’s Ex-Wife Once Said Trump Kept a Book of Hitler’s Speeches by His Bed,” September 1, 2015, https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8.

  29.    Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (New York: Reynal, 1939), 212.

  30.    Ari Berman, “Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump,” Mother Jones, November/December 2017, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/voter-suppression-wisconsin-election-2016/.

  31.    Bill Browder, Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), 329.

  32.    The Week, “The Final Presidential Debate: Obama Attacks Early and Often,” October 22, 2012, https://theweek.com/articles/471162/final-presidential-debate-obama-attacks-early-often.

  33.    Shaun Walker, “The Trumps of Russia? How Billionaire Agalarov Family Ended Up in the Spotlight,” The Guardian, July 15, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/14/who-are-aras-emin-agalarov-donald-trump-jr-emails.

  34.    Hollywood Reporter, “Donald Trump’s Tweet About ‘Best Friend’ Putin Is Most Retweeted From Final Debate,” October 19, 2016, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-trumps-tweet-best-friend-939986.

  35.    Dan Mangan, “Natalya Veselnitskaya, Russian attorney at Trump Tower meeting, charged with obstruction of justice in unrelated money laundering case,” CNBC, January 8, 2019, https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/08/natalya-veselnitskaya-attorney-at-trump-tower-meeting-charged.html.

  36.    David Filipov, “What is the Russian Order of Friendship, and why does Rex Tillerson have one?” Washington Post, December 13, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/12/13/what-is-the-russian-order-of-friendship-and-why-does-trumps-pick-for-secretary-of-state-have-one/.

  37.    Casey Michel, “The DOJ Won’t Say Why Rudy Giuliani Hasn’t Registered As a Foreign Agent Under FARA Law,” Think Progress, May 14, 2019, https://thinkprogress.org/why-isnt-rudy-giuliani-registered-as-a-foreign-agent-fara-lobbying-in-ukraine-a9289f19677e/.

  38.    Cristina Maza, “Should William Barr Recuse Himself From Mueller Report? Legal Experts Say Attorney General’s Ties to Russia Are Troubling,” Newsweek, April 15, 2019, https://www.newsweek.com/so-many-conflicts-so-little-time-1396435.

  39.    Daily Beast, “Dems Raise Concerns Over Mnuchin’s Russia Investor Connection,” January 29, 2019, https://www.thedailybeast.com/dems-raise-concerns-over-mnuchins-russia-investor-connection.

  40.    Betsy Woodruff, “Indicted Oligarch Dmytro Firtash Praises Paul Manafort, Says Trump Has Third-Grade Smarts,” Daily Beast, March 20, 2019, https://www.thedailybeast.com/indicted-oligarch-dmytro-firtash-praises-paul-manafort-says-trump-has-third-grade-smarts; The Moscow Project, “Everything You Need to Know About Michael Cohen, Contextualized,” May 30, 2018, https://themoscowproject.org/explainers/everything-you-need-to-know-about-michael-cohen-contextualized/.

  41.    Natasha Bertrand, “Former FBI Director Represented Russian Firm at Center of Major Money-Laundering Probe,” Business Insider, November 16, 2017, https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-director-louis-freeh-russia-prevezon-money-laundering-2017-11.

  42.    Jennifer Gould Keil, “Chaos at Conservative Think Tank After Donor Revealed As Ukrainian-Born ‘Oligarch,’” New York Post, November 14, 2018, https://nypost.com/2018/12/04/chaos-at-conservative-think-tank-after-donor-revealed-as-ukrainian-born-oligarch/.

  43.    Christopher Miller, “Ukraine Shows Evidence of Secret Payments Allegedly Made to Trump Aide,” Radio Free Europe, August 19, 2016, https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-secret-payments-evidents-manafort/27933901.html.

  44.    Larry King Live, “Interview with ‘The Apprentice’ Host Donald Trump,” February 27, 2004, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/27/lkl.00.html.