The unit’s experts found more than 2,500 examples of “stories directly contradicting public facts” in 18 different languages over just 15 months.The stories were repeated on a daily basis and reproduced in multiple languages.
Fake news stories uncovered by the task force range from conspiracy theories over who shot down Flight MH17 over Ukraine to claims the EU is planning to ban snowmen as “racist”.
They also include a fake terror video threatening attacks in the Netherlands if the country supported an EU association agreement with Ukraine.
“Russia is seeking to influence the outcome of several key elections in European countries this year with fake news”
I assume this actually means that the truth is somehow leaking out around the barriers of European government media control.
This is strikingly similar to what the Soviets would tell their citizens the West was doing to their society. I think it was true then, and to a certain extent it is true now. It is called politics on the world stage. The US has been quite heavy handed for 100 years at this.
The pro-EU press in those countries is almost as fake as CNN & the WaPo. Russia’s couldn’t outdo those arseholes in fake news no matter how much $$ Putin dumps into it.
Obviously they know the right will be winning, so they are blaming it on the Russkies.
Amazing. According to the statist, leftist MSM, Putin alone is doing more to disrupt the USA and Europe than the Soviet Union could achieve in 70 years!
The EU is quite literally a re-imagining of the USSR. Full socialism, increasing limits on personal expression, the loss of free speech, a confederation of disparate nationalities, a highly centralized government that has a wealthy nomenclatura, and last, an aggressive expansive foreign policy. The EU is the USSR without Russian cultural points included.
If the Russians influence them it would probably be a small move towards sanity and good citizenship in the world.
So in other words, the anti immigration politicians are going up in the polls.
Are they going to name this anti-fake news effort the “Ministry of Truth”?
The Hillary Clinton Excuse.
The Euronal elites are builing their excuses, either for their impending political losses or for clamping down on their populations. Suppression and repression have a long long history in Europe and have always been accompanied but constructed justifications and excuses from the Divine Right kings to the totalist dictators of more recent times.
Ok, so the Russian’s have a Website, so?
So the Facebook Live gang-rape in Sweden that they refuse to cover is fake?
Merkel inviting a million Muslims to Germany is Fake News ?
What did everyone think was eventually going to happen on the internet?
Hacking, false news, texting obsession, lack of attention when driving, stalking pedophiles, name-calling, etc.
What’s with all this shock?
this apparently is the last, weak card in the nwo/globalist deck being played.
They produce their own fake news and cover ups. They don’t need Russia.
Oh, you mean Germany hasn’t been invaded by slimes?
Pathetic.