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Inside a pro-Trump YouTube disinformation network that spans Vietnam to Bosnia | CNET

At first glance, Misrad Sulejmanovic could be your typical YouTuber. The 25-year-old from Bosnia and Herzegovina has a following of about 3,300 subscribers on his channel. He goes by the handle Dinaric Wolf.

Sulejmanovic (not to be confused with a Bosnian soccer player of the same name) mostly posts reactions to videos by Geography Now, an educational channel with more than 2 million subscribers. The reaction videos follow the same format: The original Geography Now video plays in the main screen, while Sulejmanovic comments in a smaller screen at the bottom left. He sits at a desk alone in a dark room and chats into a microphone. He kids around and, like many YouTubers, occasionally rambles. In a recent video, he joked that he hadn’t posted anything in a while because he’d been away fighting World War III, but nobody remembered because the army had to “neuralize” everyone. Nerdy humor you’ll see all over YouTube.

To find Sulejmanovic’s more widely seen work, however, you would’ve needed to look elsewhere on the platform.

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Source: Inside a pro-Trump YouTube disinformation network that spans Vietnam to Bosnia – CNET