That Devious Plot to ‘Zombify’ Russia: The Fidget Spinner
What, no Putin love here? If Putin hacks the US election, then the US can fight back with Fidget Spinners!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/world/europe/russia-fidget-spinner-plot.html
Commentators piled on, noting that the spinners might indeed be an attempt to “zombify people” so that they could be manipulated.
“In such a manner, our opposition is luring the youth,” Ruslan Ostashko, the editor in chief of a pro-Kremlin website, PolitRussia.ru, told Rossiya 24 in a separate report. “Those who understand political technologies, they understand very clearly that this simple thing is controlling the masses.”