You tell your John Sherman, Department of Defense
Chief Information Officer to back off propagandizing FreeRepublic.
For people other than the propogandists to reference:
Propagandists in our DoD and you know they’re operating at many sites, not just Facebook and Twitter, like here as you’ll notice when you view their profiles “in forum.”
Excerpt:
“The takedowns in recent years by Twitter and Facebook of more than 150 bogus personas and media sites created in the United States was disclosed last month by internet researchers Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory. While the researchers did not attribute the sham accounts to the U.S. military, two officials familiar with the matter said that U.S. Central Command is among those whose activities are facing scrutiny. Like others interviewed for this report, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations.“
And another:
“”One diplomat put it this way: “Generally speaking, we shouldn’t be employing the same kind of tactics that our adversaries are using because the bottom line is we have the moral high ground. We are a society that is built on a certain set of values. We promote those values around the world and when we use tactics like those, it just undermines our argument about who we are.””
Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/19/pentagon-psychological-operations-facebook-twitter/
The Amazon Post? LOL!
Yes, the propaganda op seems quite standardized and in a consistent format from a few regular posters here, as if straight out of a AI program or manual.
I call it the “disembodied, one-off event, promoted as a disconnected chain evidence of some main propaganda theme.” Putin is about to fall, Russia is collapsing.
It works very well on the casual consumer of news (ie. most Americans), if it is not analyzed closely
These themes rise, then disappear.
For example - for a few weeks we had constant “evidence” of “Putin dying” - Putin is bloated, Putin’s legs are shaking, etc...
Then its gone.
We should re-enable the Smith-Mundt Act which was amended during the Obama years to allow the US to propagandize it’s own people.
Your pathetic attempts to discredit any information that is critical of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is tiresome. The video was published on the pro-Russian Telegram channel Rybar. Has the DoD infiltrated Rybar too? 🙄
Experts Believe Russia Low On Soldiers After Putin Spotted Trying To Teach A Polar Bear How To Drive A Tank!
MOSCOW — Military experts believe the Russian war effort may be in trouble after Vladimir Putin was seen attempting to teach polar bears how to drive tanks.
“No, no you dumb bear! You move turret, not tank!” Putin was heard shouting. “Now bear, you reach down and - did you just eat the gearshift? Bad bear!”
A military debacle from the outset, Russia’s invasion has gone from bad to worse as Ukraine’s counter-offensive has pushed the depleted Russian army backwards. “We got off to a bad start when our tanks ran out of gas twelve hours into the war,” said Russian soldier Fyodor Petrov. “How does a nation that just sells gas forget to pack gas? That is what Americans call irony, no? But now it is getting worse. Half our soldiers die from bombs, and then Putin shoots the ones that survive because he’s mad about how many already died from bombs. We are - how do you say - screwed?”
Having killed most of his remaining officers, Putin has been forced to resort to unorthodox means to fill the ranks. “I open jail cells, send prisoners to war - all dead. I invite nice Chechen terrorists to come join us - all dead too,” said a forlorn Putin. “With everyone fleeing the draft, now I have to go to the zoo and see what I can get. The mongoose is not too bad on the machine gun, actually.”
At publishing time, a frustrated Mr. Putin decided to just launch some nukes, but then realized he already had the people who knew how to launch the nukes all killed.
I sure do feel sometimes like professional gaslighting is going on here.
Just checking that someone has been a member for a long time is pretty meaningless in this context.