Posted on 02/27/2022 6:40:09 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
FILE - Russia's President Vladimir Putin appears on a television screen at the stock market in Frankfurt, Germany, Feb. 25, 2022. Russia is revving up its sophisticated propaganda machine as its military advances in neighboring Ukraine. Analysts who monitor propaganda and disinformation have seen a sharp increase in online activity linked to the Russian state.
In 2014, Russia flooded the internet with fake accounts pushing disinformation about its takeover of Crimea. Eight years later, experts say Russia is mounting a far more sophisticated effort as it invades Ukraine.
Armies of trolls and bots stir up anti-Ukrainian sentiment. State-controlled media outlets look to divide Western audiences.
The effort amounts to a part of Russia’s war arsenal shaping opinion through orchestrated disinformation fighting alongside actual troops and weapons.
Nina Jankowicz, disinformation researcher and expert on Eastern Europe at the Wilson Center in Washington: “Russia has been perfecting these tactics.”
They are seeing a sharp increase in online activity by groups affiliated with the Russian state in keeping with Russia’s strategy of using social media and state-run outlets to galvanize domestic support while seeking to destabilize the Western alliance. There’s been a rapid uptick in suspicious accounts spreading anti-Ukrainian content, according to Cyabra, an Israeli tech company that works to detect disinformation.
Cyabra’s analysts tracked thousands of Facebook and Twitter accounts saw a sudden and dramatic increase in anti-Ukrainian content in the days immediately before the invasion.
Researchers at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab analyzed 3,000 articles by 10 state-owned Russian news outlets noticing a big increase in unfounded claims.
Jim Ludes, a former U.S. defense analyst now directing the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, said Russian disinformation campaigns are intended to galvanize Russian support while confusing and dividing the country’s opponents.
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But..... WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO???? I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT TOKTOK!!!!
More worried about the Democrats’ media control.
Russian girls are waiting...
Thanks to this we have the names of some companies and individuals engaged in spying on social media accounts.
Hi there, ya’ll!
The Associated Propagandists calling out Russian propagandists. Must be a propaganda war between them.
“Truth is the first casualty in war.”
And we have been under attack for many years by the left.
You know the exact opposite is true.
Just a technical question: what do those two words mean? What is a troll? What is a bot? What do they do? How are they dangerous?
I’m curious: Has anyone from the Rat/RINO uniparty of treason called for a special investigative council to look into why the Joe Biden occupation by coup put energy sanctions on the USA and lifted those of Russia? Sounds to me that’s one hell of an act of treason, a lot more serious than any hoax invented by the multiple felon who is above the law Hillary Clinton
Associated Propandists warn against Russian Propagndists.
Plenty of Russia's tools of propaganda on FR
Noie: this article is excerpted
I’m more concerned about those dancing COVID nurses posting on Tik Tok than I am of Putin.
I am really concerned about which propaganda I should listen to.
You left out the Biden Republicans.
Its usually one or two people who set up multiple accounts and pretend to be more than they are.
A troll is someone that is deliberately egging you on.
Trying to elicit a specific emotional response from you.
A bot is a program designed to ask/state specific responses.
Comments on all social media contains many bot responses.
They do specific things after implementation without further human interaction necessary.
I assume the writer is saying their disinformation/propaganda is dangerous.
Plenty of NeoCon trash on FR.
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